2024 Orientation Schedule [clone]
We are excited to welcome the Class of 2028 to campus at Arrival Day on Thursday, August 29, 2024. Students, faculty, and staff have been collaborating throughout academic year 2023-24 to put together an Orientation schedule that introduces you to Bates and provides you with opportunities to form meaningful connections in your initial days on campus.
The Orientation schedule should be posted on or near March 8, 2024.
Be sure to engage your Lyceum Summer Resources (which open to you in June 2024) and check your Bates email so you can access necessary information and resources prior to Arrival Day.
+Thursday, August 29th
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
New Student Check-In and Move-In
Commons and Various Residence Hall
Be sure to start your check-in at Commons by entering on the Central Avenue. Families will be advised to drop off their student so that they may check-in to get their ID, residence hall access, and other important information. Families will be directed to the residence hall and meet their student there. Various students and staff will assist in unpacking vehicles.
10:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Arrival Day Barbecue for Families and Students
Commons and Various Residence Hall
Stop by for some delicious food prepared by the Dining, Catering, and Campus Events Staff once you have finished moving in to your residence hall!
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
TD Bank – Open a Bank Account
Commons and Various Residence Hall
12:00 PM – 12:50 PM
Transfer Student and Family Welcome
Commons and Various Residence Hall
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Bates Parent Team: New Families Welcome Table
Commons and Various Residence Hall
1:00 PM – 1:50 PM
International Student and Family Group Greeting
Commons and Various Residence Hall
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
President’s Welcome Address
Commons and Various Residence Hall
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Families & Support Networks Depart Campus
2:45 PM – 3:35 PM
Cookie Reception
Commons and Various Residence Hall
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM
Meet Campus Safety and the Residence Life Coordinators – JA Program
Commons and Various Residence Hall
Stop by for some delicious food prepared by the Dining, Catering, and Campus Events Staff once you have finished moving in to your residence hall!
Learning Goals
Be sure to start your check-in at Commons by entering on the Central Avenue.
FYE Values
BUILDING A WELCOMING COMMUNITY
CULTIVATING PURPOSE AND IDENTITY
Transfer Student and Family Welcome Learning Goals:
Commons Room — 1) Learn about Bates’s academic and co-curricular
opportunities
2) Meet fellow transfer students new to Bates
Meet with Associate Dean of Students James Reese and Associate Dean of Faculty Stephen Engel to get your questions answered!
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Meet the Bates Parent Team
In front of Commons (Rain Location?)
Meet the members of the Bates Parents Team, whom you will hear from and whom you can reach out to throughout your student’s time at Bates.
Thursday, August 29th – Opening Day
Time | Event | Location | Description of Event | Learning Goals |
6:00 AM – 2:30 PM | Athletics Practice | TBD | ||
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | New Student Check-In & Move-In | TBD | ||
10:30 AM – 3:00 PM | Arrival Day BBQ for Parents, Support Team, & Students | TBD | ||
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM | TD Bank – Open a Bank Account | TBD | ||
11:30 AM – 2:30 PM | Athletics PPE | TBD | ||
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Bates Parent Team: New Families Welcome Table | TBD | ||
12:00 PM – 12:50 PM | Transfer Student and Family Welcome | TBD | ||
1:00 PM – 1:50 PM | International Student and Family Group Greeting | TBD | ||
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM | President’s Welcome Address | TBD | ||
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Families & Support Networks Depart Campus | TBD | ||
2:45 PM – 3:35 PM | Cookie Reception | TBD | ||
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM | Meet Campus Safety and the Residence Life Coordinators – JA Program | TBD | ||
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM | TBD | TBD | ||
4:40 PM – 5:30 PM | Meet Campus Safety and the Residence Life Coordinators – JA Program | TBD | ||
4:40 PM – 5:30 PM – | TBD | TBD | ||
5:45 PM – 6:45 PM | First-Year Center Dinner with Junior Advisor (JA) | TBD | ||
5:45 PM – 6:45 PM | Transfer Student Dinner | TBD | ||
7:00 PM – 7:50 PM | Well Being Event 1 | TBD | ||
7:00 PM – 7:50 PM | Welcome to Your New Hometown Group 1 | TBD | ||
8:00 PM – 8:50 PM | Well Being Event 2 | TBD | ||
8:00 PM – 8:50 PM | Welcome to Your New Hometown Group 2 | TBD | ||
9:05 PM – 9:50 PM | First Floor meeting with JA (Junior Advisor) | TBD | ||
10:00 PM – 1:00 AM | Orientation Week Social Event led by Orientation Week Leaders (OWLs) | TBD |
Friday, August 30th – Academics
Time | Event | Location | Description of Event | Learning Goals |
5:00 AM – 8:30 AM | Athletics Practice | TBD | ||
7:45 AM – 8:45 AM | Breakfast w/ JAs | TBD | ||
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM | First-Year Seminar Meeting and Advising (Please scroll down to find your FYS location) | TBD | ||
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Transfer Student Group Advising | TBD | ||
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | First-Year Gear Check Out (A-M) | TBD | ||
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Voter Registration Table | TBD | ||
11:10 AM – 12:25 PM | Academic & Resource Fair | TBD | ||
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch with JA | TBD | ||
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | First Year Gear Check Out (N-Z) | TBD | ||
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Green Dot Group 1 | TBD | ||
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Green Dot Group 2 | TBD | ||
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Navigating Community, Relationships, & Consent + Dining and Sustainability | TBD | ||
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Green Dot Group 3 | TBD | ||
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Green Dot Group 4 | TBD | ||
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Navigating Community, Relationships, & Consent + Dining and Sustainability | TBD | ||
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | First-Year Gear Check Out for AESOP | TBD | ||
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Voter Registration Table | TBD | ||
4:45 PM – 6:00 PM | Go to AESOP Welcome | TBD | ||
5:30 PM – TBD | Athletics Practice | TBD | ||
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Dinner with AESOP Leaders | TBD | ||
7:30 PM – 10:30 PM | AESOP Leader Event | TBD |
FYS Classroom Locations for Friday, August 30th
FYS course # | Course Title | Professor Last Name | Professor First Name | Friday, August 30, 2024 Class Meeting Room (ONLY ON THIS DATE) — 9 AM to 11 AM |
135 | Poets as Seers | Hardy | Myronn | Hathorn 303 |
258 | Law and Justice | Cummiskey | David | Hedge 208 |
308 | Searching for the Good Life | Sargent | Michael | Pettengill 116 |
318 | Through the Eyes of Children | Rice-Defosse | Mary | Roger Williams G18 |
393 | Music and DiY Culture | Chapman | Dale | Olin 128 |
434 | Remaking Movies: Art, History, and Politics | Cavallero | Jon | Pettigrew 300 |
447 | Holocaust on Stage | Vecsey | Kati | Pettigrew 200 |
475 | Theorizing the Ku Klux Klan | Petrella | Christopher | Hathorn 305 |
505a | STEM Scholars | Hill | April | Bonney 310 |
505b | STEM Scholars | Ott | Katy | Bonney 210 |
505c | STEM Scholars | Schlax | Paula | Dana 219 |
510 | Creativity: Theory and Practice | Sale | Bronwyn | Hedge 106 |
523 | Poetry & Resistance beyond the Gender Binary | Ellasante | Ian-Khara | Pettengill G50 |
532 | Arts and Spirituality | Longsdorf | Brittany | Rogeer Williams 413 |
533 | Paperfolding: A Blend of Art, Mathematics, and Engineering | Alford | Andee | Dana 300 |
543 | Buddhist Pilgrimmage and Tourism in Asia | Melnick Dyer | Alison | Pettengill G312 |
544 | The Study and Practice of Human Cooperation | Goff | Sandra | Pettengill 257 |
548 | Queer Gender, Race, and Writing | Rand | Erica | Pettengill 151 |
550 | Tell Us Your Story | Humphrey | Shonna | Hathorn 100 |
559 | Art of the Short Story | Anthony | Jessica | Hathorn 314 |
560 | The Digital Economy | He | Leshui | Pettengill G52 |
562 | Sun, Sex, Sand, and Snow | Medford | Marcelle | Pettengill G54 |
563 | Violence and Nonviolence | Gilson | Lisa | Pettengill 162 |
564 | Pop Culture in Premodern Japan | McGaughey | Hanna | Roger Williams 215 |
565 | Multimodal Composition | Page | Lydia | Pettengill 127 |
566 | What is Leadership? | Szeman | Eddie | Dana 104 |
567 | What Makes Up Your Mind | Kim | Olivia | Dana 206 |
568 | The Civic Self | Kinney | Morgan | Hathorn 104 |
569 | Medieval/Modern | Boomer | Megan | Olin 250 |
570 | Wrongful Convictions | Douglass | Amy | Pettengill G21 |
571 | Gender Without Borders | Lim | Seulgie | Pettengill G65 |
572 | Physics of Climate Change | Cole | Ryan | Carnegie 113 |
573 | Sex in the Brain | Hamilton | Lindsey | Dana 204 |
574 | Creating Medieval Communities | Tizzoni | Mark | Pettigrew 301 |
575 | Colón y Castro: héroe o tirano | Fra-Molinero | Baltasar | Roger Williams 315 |
Saturday, August 31st – AESOP Day 1
Time | Event | Location |
All Day | AESOP Trips | Follow the schedule set by your AESOP Leaders. |
All Day | Fall Pre-Season Athletes Follow Coaches’ Schedules |
Sunday, September 1st – AESOP Day 2
Time | Event | Location |
All Day | AESOP Trips | Follow the schedule set by your AESOP Leaders. |
All Day | Fall Pre-Season Athletes Follow Coaches’ Schedules |
Monday, September 2nd – AESOP Day 3
Time | Event | Location |
Various Times | Return from AESOP Trips | |
6:00 AM – 5:30 PM | Athletics Practice | |
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Orientation Week Social Event led by Orientation Week Leaders (OWLs) | TBD |
5:45 PM – 6:45 PM | Letter to My Future Self Dinner with JAs | TBD |
7:00 PM – 8:45 PM | Orientation Week Social Event led by Orientation Week Leaders (OWLs) | TBD |
9:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Orientation Week Social Event led by Orientation Week Leaders (OWLs) | TBD |
10:00 PM – 12:00AM | Orientation Week Social Event led by Orientation Week Leaders (OWLs) | TBD |
10:00 PM – 12:00 AM | Orientation Week Social Event led by Orientation Week Leaders (OWLs) | TBD |
Tuesday, September 3rd – Convocation
Time | Event | Location |
6:00 AM – 8:45 AM | Athletics Practice | |
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Orientation Week Social Event led by Orientation Week Leaders (OWLs) | TBD |
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Add / Drop Support with Registrar | TBD |
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Breakfast with JA | TBD |
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM | Convocation Line-up | TBD |
11:00 AM | Convocation | TBD |
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM | Campus BBQ | TBD |
TBD | Athletics Practice | TBD |
TBD | OWL or JA Programming TBD | TBD |
TBD | OWL or JA Programming TBD | TBD |
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | JACA Reception at President’s House | TBD |
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Dinner | TBD |
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | International Circle Student Dinner | TBD |
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM | Multifaith Warm Welcome: S’Mores and Cider | TBD |
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Moonlight aCapella Concert | TBD |
9:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Orientation Week Social Event led by Orientation Week Leaders (OWLs) | TBD |
9:00 PM – 11:00 PM | Orientation Week Social Event led by Orientation Week Leaders (OWLs) | TBD |