{"id":14266,"date":"2025-06-10T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/?p=14266"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:11:41","slug":"batess-history-and-commitments-to-equity-and-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/2025\/06\/10\/batess-history-and-commitments-to-equity-and-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"6\/10: Bates\u2019s History and Commitments to Equity and Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tuesday, June 10, 2025&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello students in the Class of 2029 and new transfer students,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/about\/mission\/\">Bates mission statement<\/a> speaks of the college&#8217;s aim to foster learning and create a community where \u201cwe engage the transformative power of our differences.\u201d We encourage all community members to consider how they come to Bates with a range of distinct experiences and to evaluate how those experiences influence their perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, you have access to a new section of your Summer Resources Lyceum Page, which focuses on Bates&#8217;s History and Mission. You can access Lyceum by <a href=\"https:\/\/quad.bates.edu\/\">going to the Quad<\/a> and clicking on the button labeled \u201cLyceum.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/lyceum.bates.edu\/course\/view.php?id=7873&amp;section=2\">You can access the section directly by going here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to working with you throughout the summer and to meeting you at Arrival Day on August 28! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/orientation-schedule\/\">For more information on the New Student On-Campus Orientation schedule, please go here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Engel, <em>Professor of Politics and Associate Dean of the Faculty\u00a0<\/em><br>Kim Trauceniek, <em>Senior Associate Dean of Students<br><\/em>Nick Dressler, <em>Associate Dean of Students for Residence Life and First-Year Experience<br><\/em>Catie Luedee, <em>Associate Director for Outdoor Education and Programs<\/em><br>Luke Allen \u201822, <em>Coordinator of Campus Life Programming and First-Year Experience<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, June 10, 2025&nbsp; Hello students in the Class of 2029 and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14269,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14266\/revisions\/14269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}