{"id":2,"date":"2020-02-28T14:36:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:26:50","slug":"community-updates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates has-author wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/2026\/04\/15\/summer-2026-central-ave-project-update\/\">Summer 2026 Central Ave Project Update<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Geoff Swift<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-15T14:19:33-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 15, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Dear Bates Community, I write to alert the Bates community that the City of Lewiston will begin a major infrastructure project on Central Avenue starting next Monday, April 20, 2026, that we can expect to&hellip;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/2025\/09\/12\/fall-2025-campus-capital-update\/\">Fall 2025 Campus Capital Update<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Geoff Swift<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-12T13:06:50-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 12, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Dear Bates Community, With the fall semester underway and the campus alive with students, I write to highlight some of the updates and investments in our campus from a busy summer of activity. As ever,&hellip;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/2024\/09\/16\/fall-2024-campus-capital-update\/\">Fall 2024 Campus Capital Update<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Geoff Swift<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-16T08:30:14-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 16, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Dear Bates Community, I want to share an update on changes to campus you may have noticed. As ever, we are dedicated to improving our campus and the state of our facilities.&nbsp; The summer is&hellip;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/2024\/01\/25\/bates-in-2024-capital-observations-and-outlook\/\">Bates in 2024:  Capital Observations and Outlook<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Geoff Swift<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-01-25T07:00:00-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">January 25, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Dear Bates Community, I write to describe two upcoming capital projects and to provide context and comments about Bates\u2019 campus planning. Now underway, the first project will turn 96 Campus Avenue into a residence hall&hellip;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/2023\/05\/09\/change-in-covid-19-policies\/\">Change in COVID-19 Policies<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Geoff Swift<\/div><time datetime=\"2023-05-09T11:06:00-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">May 9, 2023<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Dear Colleagues: I write to share with you that effective May 11, the college will end many of its COVID-19 protocols. This move is consistent with the Biden administration\u2019s recent announcement regarding the expiration of&hellip;<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/category\/blog\/page\/2\/\">Read more posts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read more posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/finance-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}