Committee Abbreviations

This table is under construction.

Committees in bold are currently active.

Committee	Abbreviation	Year Created	Year Dissolved
Academic Affairs Council	AAC	2015
Academic Standing Committee	ASC
Admissions and Financial Aid Committee		1972
Admissions Committee			1972
Athletics Committee		1980
Bates Arts Collaborative	BAC	2013
Cluster Development Committee		1986	2006
College Governance
Commencement Committee			1977
Committee of Five (Dean and Division Chairs)			2015
Committee on Committees	CoC	1972	1995
Committee on Committees and Governance	CCG	1995	2009
Committee on Faculty Governance	CFG	2009
Committee on Teaching Development		1988
Committee on Teaching and Learning	CTL
Committee on Writing
Computing Services		1977	1998
Concerts Committee		1986	2009
Concerts and Lectures Committee			1986
Conduct Committee
Conference with the Trustees Committee		1969	2009
Curriculum and Calendar Committee	CCC		1970
Curriculum Review Committee	CRC
Educational Access
Educational Policy Committee	EPC		2015
Environmental Task Force			2006
Environmental Responsibility Committee		2006
Evaluation of Teaching Committee		1983	2016
Extracurricular Activities Committee			1983
Extracurricular Activities and Residential Life Committee	EARL
Faculty Personnel Committee	FPC
Faculty Governance Review Committee	FGRC
Faculty Scholarship and Grants Committee	FSGC
Freshman Orientation			1976
Freshman Seminars		1977	1988
Freshman Seminars and Writing Committee		1988
Honors Committee
Informal Discussions Committee			1969
Information Services Advisory Committee		1998	2016
Lectures Committee		1986	2011 (on hold)
Legal Studies		1973	2025
Legislative Committee		1969	1995
Library Committee		1969	2016
Library and Information Services Committee		2016
Long Range Planning Committee		1979	1995
Martin Luther King Jr. Planning Committee		2002
Medical Studies Committee		1969
Nominating Committee			1972
Off-Campus Study	OCS	1975
Personnel Committee			1974
Physical Education Personnel Committee	PEPC	1976
President’s Advisory Committee			1995
President’s Institutional Planning & Advisory Committee		1995	2009
Residential Life Committee	Res Life	1970
Schedules and Examination Committee			1970
Scholarships, Prizes, and Fellowships Committee			1972
Sectioning Committee			1969
Sexual Assault Task Force
Student Affairs Council		2016
Study Abroad Committee			1975
Teaching and Learning Committee	TLC	2016
Teaching Development Committee			2016
Writing Committee		1979

News & Updates

February 26, 2026

Bates announces tenure and promotion for nine faculty members

Nine members of the faculty have received promotions, including seven tenure awards, effective Feb. 6. The promotions were recommended by the Faculty Personnel Committee and approved by the Bates College Board of Trustees.

All the way from Greenland, Arctic soil samples give Bates professor, students a glimpse into ancient climate conditions

Hadley Blodgett ’26 of Buckfield, Maine, spends a lot of time thinking about just that — time.

In a laboratory in Carnegie Science Hall, as she conducts research for her senior thesis, Blodgett gazes over 7,000 years of history condensed into a sediment sample extracted from a lake in northern Greenland. As a double major in earth and climate sciences and music, with a minor in religious studies, Blodgett enjoys reflecting on the way that time has constructed and altered her fields of study. Sometimes, when the immensity of the sediment sample’s past hits her, she thinks, “How am I holding this?”
“To think about the scale of what's in front of me is just kind of crazy,” Blodgett says.
How exactly did sediment buried deep beneath Arctic waters find its way to the surface, then to Bates? The story crosses oceans and icebergs, tundras and deserts, but connects to Bates through Blodgett’s thesis advisor, Associate Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences Nick Balascio.

As a paleoclimatologist, Balascio studies how Earth’s climate system has changed across millennia, primarily through analyzing lake sediment cores, which are layers of mud, dirt, and organic material extracted from the bottom of lakes in long tubes.

“Those lakes are natural history books that record what's going on around the watershed of the lake as well as within the lake itself,” Balascio says.

February 26, 2026

Bates professor, students study ancient climate with Arctic s…

Bates students are getting a firsthand look at 7,000 years of ancient climate history with a group of lake sediment cores extracted from northern Greenland.

LOVE/ SICK By John Cariani Directed by Martin Andrucki Scenery and Costume Design by Christine McDowell Lighting Design by Michael Reidy PLAYWRIGHT'S NOTE: LOVE/SICK is a .. . nine-play cycle about love and loss-but mostly loss. Each play has its own arc and tells the story of a couple at a crossroads in their relationship. Since each relationship is more advanced than the previous relationship, a larger arc emerges and the individual plays work together to create a satisfying whole that chronicles the life cycle of a typical relationship from meeting through divorce ... and afterwards. TIME: 7:30 pm on a Friday night in June. PLACE: An alternate suburban reality. Play 1. "Obsessive Impulsive." WOMAN, Emily Diaz '23; MAN, Brady Chilson '23 Play 2. "The Singing Telegram." LOUISE, Alex Gilbertson '22; TELEGRAM MAN, Losseni Barry '22, Play 3. "What?!?" ANDY, Noah Pott '22; BEN, Lucas Allen '22 Play 4. "The Answer." KEITH, Kush Sharma '23; CELIA, Sadie Basila '23 Play 5. "Uh-Oh." SARAH, Emily Diaz '23; BILL, Rishi Madnani '23 INTERMISSION Play 6. "Lunch and Dinner." MARK, Brady Chilson '23; KELLY, Sadie, Basila '23 Play 7. "Forgot." KEVIN, Kush Sharma '23; JILL, Olivia Dimond '22 Play 8. "Where Was 17" LIZ, Muskan Verma '21; ABBIE, Hale Murch '22 Play 9. "Destiny." JAKE, Rishi Madnani '23; EMILY, Alex Gilbertson '22

February 12, 2026

Beloved and brilliant Martin Andrucki, Dana Professor Emeritu…

A beloved and brilliant teacher and scholar who secured a seat at the liberal arts table for Bates theater, Andrucki died Feb. 8, 2026, at age 80. A faculty member for 47 years, he was among the longest-serving Bates professors in the college’s history.

News & Updates

March 5, 2026

First-generation student mentors help peers navigate academic…

In the Student Center for Belonging and Community, first-generation Bates students mentor their younger peers, providing guidance on everything from academics to internships to social life.

March 5, 2026

Bates announces Stoddard Fitness and Well-Being Center and at…

Bates is embarking on a $45 million project to update two key athletic facilities and construct a new fitness and well-being center. A gift of $10 million from Jon W. Brayshaw ’90, P’25 and Jocelyn Stoddard Brayshaw ’88, P’25 has brought the college a vital step closer to construction. The new facility will be named the Stoddard Fitness and Well-Being Center.

March 5, 2026

February at Bates

February on campus saw sports successes, several large snowfalls, and our annual Winter Carnival — a week of events celebrating the joys of the chilly season.