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.
A preliminary on-campus New Student Orientation schedule can be viewed below. A more comprehensive schedule will be posted on or near May 20, 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 – 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)