CFG Agendas and Minutes

The Guiding Principles for Faculty Governance, which was approved by the Faculty 7 March 2022, includes best practice recommendations regarding communication stating, “Effective communication is key to faculty governance, and strengthens faculty voice in shared governance. Committees should post agendas, minutes, and reports of their work. Colleagues are responsible for reading this information. Information flow and transparency of processes should be standardized to facilitate effective decision-making and continuity of work both across time and different groups.”

2026-2027 Agendas and Minutes

Reentry Sisters join Bates courses

This fall, in addition to the 552 first-year students and 13 transfer students, an additional five students enrolled in a few courses across campus: previously incarcerated women joined first-year seminars through the Reentry Sisters Alumni Scholar Program.

September 17, 2026

Bates welcomes the last of this year’s new faculty

Bates welcomed 11 new tenured or tenure-track faculty for the 2026-2027 academic year, and Bates News is highlighting these faculty in three installments. Read about our new faculty here and here, and read below for the final group of new faculty this year.

September 17, 2026

Bates student honored as Newman Civic Fellow

Natalie Gersen ‘28 of Belmont, Mass., has been named a Newman Civic Fellow through Campus Compact, a national coalition of colleges and universities working to advance the public purposes of higher education.