{"id":14421,"date":"2025-09-02T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/?p=14421"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:23:06","slug":"9-02-today-add-drop-begins-and-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/2025\/09\/02\/9-02-today-add-drop-begins-and-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/02: Today: Add\/Drop Begins and Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tuesday, September 2, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello Class of 2029 and new transfer students!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we mark the official beginning of the academic year with a ceremony known as Convocation! All students are welcome to attend. New students should have breakfast with their JA or transfer CA at 9 AM and should plan to line up for the Convocation ceremony at Alumni Walk &#8211; just outside Commons &#8211; at 10:15 AM. Your JA or transfer CA will have more information about this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Convocation begins at 11 AM, and it will be followed by a campus barbeque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please remember that <strong>the Fall 2025 course schedule adjustment period known as add\/drop begins today, <\/strong>September 2, 2025 at 7 AM. You can adjust your course schedule by adding courses that have available seats. Full information on add\/drop was sent to you in an email from the Registrar. If you have any lingering questions, please reach out to your academic advisor via email ASAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to check out your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/orientation-schedule\/\">New Student On-Campus Orientation schedule here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Rocque, <em>Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of the Faculty<\/em>\u00a0<br>Kim Trauceniek, <em>Senior Associate Dean of Students<\/em><br>Nick Dressler, <em>Associate Dean of Students for Residence Life and First-Year Experience<\/em><br>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, September 2, 2025 Hello Class of 2029 and new transfer students!&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-14421","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\/14421","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=14421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14422,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14421\/revisions\/14422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}