Edward A. Szeman

Visiting Lecturer and Assistant Director of Student Academic Support - SQSS

Associations

Student Academic and Speaking/Presentation Support

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207-786-6427 eszeman@bates.edu

Current Courses

Fall Semester 2025

What is Leadership? Theory, Practice, and Everyday Life

FYS 566

This course is designed to unpack conceptions of leadership including philosophical foundations, historical evolution, and contemporary leadership problems. Students will engage with diverse leadership theories and frameworks as well as key concepts underlying those theories such as social construct…

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Meet new faculty in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetori…

New faculty join Bates in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetoric. Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college over the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing them in groups over this semester. Part 1 ran in our newsletter of September 25, part 2 went out in our October 3 newsletter and Part 3 appeared in our October 10 newsletter.

Her electric violin at the ready on her right shoulder, Mavy Ho-Le ’26 started to slowly tap her foot on the stage at Olin Arts Center. It was Saturday Oct. 25 and the first strains of Radiohead’s 2016 song “Daydreaming,” were beginning to emerge from Fitter Happier, a Radiohead tribute band based in Portland.