Bryant Gumbel '70 (left) smiles as President Spencer introduces him at the May 19 Presidential Event at the Whitney Museum in New York City. Attended by some 400 alumni, parents, and friends, the event featured Gumbel interviewing Spencer and trustee emeritus Michael Chu '80 (right) about "The Liberal Arts in an Age of Disruption." (Matthew Carasella for Bates College)

Volunteers pose for a photo before joining their respective assignments for EcoService Day, which annually sends students, faculty, and staff onto campus and into the community. (Max Huang ’18 for Bates College)

At an academic showcase in Perry Atrium, Armando Morales Urrutia '16 of Fraijanes, Guatemala, and Daniel Paseltiner '16, of Devon, Pa., show President Clayton Spencer how microcontrollers work. The students belonged to a select group that teamed up with physicist Travis Gould during Short Term to expand the current “Electronics” course to include microcontrollers, embedded programming, and hardware interfacing. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

Students meet with Small Business Administration staff and business owners during a meeting at the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce. The visit took place during the Short Term course “Entrepreneurship,” taught by practitioner-in-residence Darrell Williams ’86 (foreground) and part of Bates' Purposeful Work initiative. (Josh Kuckens/Bates College)

Keenan Shields '18 of Pittsford, N.Y. (lavender shirt), stands with Ali Rabideau '17, a double major in women and gender studies and in sociology from Natick, Mass., and with community gardeners in Kingston, Jamaica. The two were among 14 students who studied “Place, Community, Transformation" with anthropology professor Charles Carnegie. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)