Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Hello Class of 2029 and Transfer Students!

We hope that you are starting to get excited about coming to campus in late August! Please note this will be the last email we send to your non-Bates email address. Please be sure to check your Bates email on a regular basis – we plan on communicating important information with you weekly via your Bates inbox. 

If you haven’t yet claimed your Bates network credentials from your Admission portal, please do so ASAP. This will allow you to login to your Bates Gmail account.

First-Year Forms

The majority of First-Year Forms you need to fill out prior to attending Bates in the Fall are open as of today. All of these forms are accessed through Garnet Gateway. A schedule of the forms open and due dates is listed at the First-Year Forms page on the First-Year Experience website. To login and access these forms, please go to the Quad and then click on “Log in to Garnet Gateway.” These forms are mandatory and must be completed prior to your arrival on campus.

FYE Summer Resources Lyceum Page

Your Summer Resources Lyceum Page will help you prepare for the Fall 2025 semester, and is now open to you! We will release more resources throughout the summer. For example, on June 17, we will release resources that will help you prepare for your Fall 2025 course selection (that selection period will be from July 9 to July 23, 2025, and don’t worry, every student new to Bates is assigned a personal summer course selection consultant and you will get an email from them on or near July 1 with more information).

You must review your FYE Summer Resources in their entirety as they are part of your First-Year Experience Program.

The key dates when more information will appear at your Summer Resources Lyceum Page are listed on the FYE Calendar.

Accessing Lyceum

To access Lyceum simply go here, or go to the Quad at https://quad.bates.edu/ and click on the bar labeled “Lyceum.”

Once at the Lyceum landing page, enter your username and password. Once you’ve entered Lyceum, you will see a box labeled “Class of 2029 Summer Resources.” Click on it. This will bring you to a letter from us. After reading the letter, simply scroll down and you will see a tile labeled “Welcome to the Bates Community.” Once you click on this tile, a set of resources including a short video featuring Bates faculty, staff, and students will open. Please review these resources in the next few days.

We look forward to working with you throughout the summer! If you have any questions, just email fye@bates.edu. 

Steve Engel, Professor of Politics and Associate Dean of the Faculty 
Kim Trauceniek, Senior Associate Dean of Students
Nick Dressler, Associate Dean of Students for Residence Life and First-Year Experience
Catie Luedee, Associate Director for Outdoor Education and Programs
Luke Allen ‘22, Coordinator of Campus Life Programming and First-Year Experience