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Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken, winner of the 2024 Kroepsch Teaching Award, teaches students in her course “EDUC 231 - Perspectives on Education” in Pettigrew 30 on January 16, 2025. EDUC 231 - Perspectives on Education This course introduces students to foundational perspectives (anthropological, historical, philosophical, psychological, and sociological) on education and helps students apply these perspectives to contemporary schools and classrooms. The course considers several large questions: What should be the purpose of education in a democratic society? What should be the role of the school? Who should participate in making decisions about schools? In what ways do schools reflect and perpetuate larger social inequities, and, alternately, how can they contribute to a more just and inclusive society? Students must complete at least thirty hours of fieldwork.
Bates Faculty in the News: April 25, 2025

Friday, April 25, 2025 11:59 am

Recent media mentions of Bates faculty members include commentaries on the importance of rural education to growing discussions of AI in education and an analysis of how homelessness impairs people's sense of autonomy.

Let’s Get Reel: Six seniors revel at Mount David Summit 2025

Friday, April 25, 2025 11:00 am

Watch six seniors reflect on mentorship, discovery, and the thrill of sharing big ideas at this year's summit — and how Bates students show up for one another.

Taking place in the spring of each year, this exhibition highlights work selected from the thesis projects of graduating seniors in Studio Art. This year, seven emerging artists will present work in various media: Lilah Schaefer ’25 with her work in her Olin Studio Elizabeth R. Barrow Miryam Keller Avery Lehman Erin McCarthy Alex Provasnik Lila Schaefer Danny J. Zuniga Zarat Thesis projects vary from student to student, each pursuing an individual interest. The emphasis of the program is on creating a cohesive body of related works through sustained studio practice and critical inquiry. The year-long process is overseen by Art & Visual Culture (AVC) faculty, and culminates in this exhibition. The Bates College Museum of Art maintains a close relationship with the college’s AVC department, and is committed to supporting the work of Bates students through this Annual Senior Thesis Exhibition. To see more about the artists’ work, visit the website: https://www.bates.edu/museum/exhibitions/senior-thesis-exhibition-2025/
Portraits of the student artists in the 2025 Senior Thesis Exhibition

Friday, April 25, 2025 10:08 am

Read selections from this year's seven studio art majors' artist statements, illustrated with photographic portraits of the seniors in their Olin Arts Center studios created by Phyllis Graber Jensen.

Joanne Roberts to join Bates as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 8:00 am

Roberts comes to Bates from Yale-NUS College in Singapore, where she has served as president since 2022 and prior to that held multiple leadership roles at the liberal arts college, including executive vice president for academic affairs from 2018 to 2022 and dean of faculty.

A day in the life of a ‘helluva building,’ Ladd Library at Bates College

Friday, April 11, 2025 10:16 am

A full day inside Bates College's Ladd Library — March 12, 2025 — reveals the quiet, the buzz, and the people who bring it to life.

Angela Duckworth, psychologist and author of the cultural phenomenon ‘Grit,’ to deliver 2025 Bates Commencement address

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 8:17 am

Duckworth's fellow honorary degree recipients at the May 25 Bates Commencement are trailblazing marriage equality attorney Mary Bonauto, award-winning documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson, and champion of public leadership and former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.

Defeating the field and his own doubt, Max Cory ’26 wins Bates’ first NCAA swim title

Friday, March 28, 2025 4:07 pm

Self-effacing and candid, Cory shared how he has, in the past, "tended to swim worse when the pressure's on." Not this time. His time of 42.88 seconds set a National Division III record.

Skills-focused ‘Tuck Business Essentials’ joins the course offerings for 2025 Short Term at Bates 

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 5:49 pm

For Bates students curious about the business world comes a Practitioner-Taught Course taught by faculty from the Tuck School of Business and led by Peter Friedman ’92, a Tuck graduate and the new course’s practitioner-in-residence.

"My introduction to business was through Aristotle." -- Thomas Moser, a master craftsman whose handmade furniture beautifies public spaces around the world, explaining the importance of a liberal arts education. Students in the "Short Term Practicum: Brand Culture Building" (including Lois Masson '16 of Petit-Lancy, Switzerland, and Clarke Shipley '17 of Andover, Mass., pictured here) listened to the internationally acclaimed furniture designer as he offered them a tour of his Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers workshop in Auburn, Maine. Moser, a former speech professor and debate coach at Bates, received an honorary doctor of humane letters from the college in 2015. This course, taught by brand strategist Peter Bysshe '93, takes students behind the scenes of brand culture consultants in an effort to not only humanize intimidating large corporate cultures, but also to arm students with tools to observe, measure, and build, manage or contribute to smaller cultures in which they may find themselves after graduating.
Remembering Thomas Moser, the debate coach turned world-renowned furniture maker

Thursday, March 13, 2025 4:43 pm

A master craftsman of fine furniture and former Bates faculty member and director of debate, Thomas Moser, who died March 5 at the age of 90.

Let’s get reel: A sampler of Bates campus life

Friday, February 28, 2025 2:50 am

From a 50-year-old tradition to a first-year dorm room, these four reels capture the everlasting energy of the Bates campus.

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