Commencement 2025
Commencement weekend is May 23-25, 2025.
Updates
- Watch the complete ceremony
Join us for our livestream coverage — beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 25 — of the 159th Bates College Commencement as we celebrate the accomplishments of the Bates Class of 2025. - Congratulations!
Watch Bates faculty and staff share their congratulations with the Class of 2025. - You can shape your situation before it shapes you, Bates grads told at 159th Commencement
Bates Commencement speaker Angela Duckworth, author of “Grit,” told the seniors to embrace “situation modification” — change your physical environment, especially your phone’s proximity, to protect your focus, relationships, and well-being. - Slideshow: What these Bates seniors will miss — and what they want the Class of ’29 to hear
Featuring portraits by Phyllis Graber Jensen, these Bates seniors Thirteen seniors share what they’ll miss most and offer advice to the Class of 2029. - Slideshow: What these Bates seniors will miss — and what they want the Class of ’29 to hear
Since 2014, a succession of four Bates siblings from Chicago have been able to lean on Lewiston neighbor Carmen Thibodeau for rides, rest, and real connection.