Stories about "Bates values"
Alisa Amador ’18 on how Bates helped her build a career as a singer-songwriter

Thursday, November 5, 2026 11:47 am

Singer-songwriter Alisa Amador ’18 loves a liberal arts approach, and it didn’t end for her when she graduated from Bates.

Otis Lecture focuses on Wabanaki resilience and erasure

Thursday, November 5, 2026 10:08 am

At the 29th annual Otis Lecture, Bonnie Newsom,  gave a talk entitled “Holding Ground: Wabanaki Archaeology as Resilience across Landscapes of Erasure.” 

Picture Story: Arrival day 2026 means new students, same Bates energy

Friday, August 28, 2026 10:51 am

On Thursday, Aug. 27, the long-awaited moment was here: arrival day for the Bates Class of 2030 and transfer students.

Alumni Association presents alumni awards recognizing service, career achievements

Friday, July 31, 2026 10:50 am

At Bates Reunion in June, the Alumni Association gathered to present the…

So sweet: 2026 Green Grant awardees tap funds for Bates-made maple syrup

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 3:33 pm

Five student groups earned Green Grants to pursue campus sustainability projects this spring. Among the winners was the Maple Syrup Club, which tapped on-campus trees to produce seven gallons of syrup.

After decades of partnership, Bates supports new Maine MILL building with naming gift

Thursday, June 18, 2026 1:29 am

In recognition of the two institutions’ decades-long educational partnership, Bates is making a $75,000 gift to the Maine Museum of Innovation, Labor, and Learning’s new building.

Everyone is a star in ‘Everybody’

Thursday, March 26, 2026 3:45 pm

Bates Theater’s production of 'Everybody' sold out every performance at Gannett Theater last week — waitlists at the door, eager audience members finding out they’d gotten seats five minutes before curtain — and the room earned that anticipatory urgency.

There's something quietly radical about handing the keys of a museum's permanent collection to its community — about saying, this decision is yours. Bates Curates is an intimate evening built around exactly that. Curator Samantha Sigmon will guide attendees through three photographs by Shellburne Thurber — works that linger in doorways and dim interiors, that hold the weight of lives lived just out of frame — before opening the floor to a vote that will shape the museum's collection for good. Organized in conjunction with Shellburne Thurber: Full Circle, on view through March 21. Made possible by the Barbara Morris Goodbody Collection Endowment Fund.
Night at the museum: The community curates Museum of Art’s permanent collection

Thursday, March 26, 2026 9:13 am

During the first-ever Bates Curates event in March, faculty, staff, and students, and President Garry W. Jenkins, became “curators” as they gathered to select a new addition to the Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

Bates professor, students study ancient climate with Arctic sediment cores

Thursday, February 26, 2026 2:03 pm

Bates students are getting a firsthand look at 7,000 years of ancient climate history with a group of lake sediment cores extracted from northern Greenland.

On a chilly night in December, students from Associate Professor of Theater Courtney Smith’s Introduction to Digital Media course presented their final project on Lisbon Street, the heart of Lewiston's historic downtown, and the subject of this interdiscliplinary course (cross listed between theater and digital and computational studies). For their work in this community engaged learning experience, they explored resources that included the Muskie Archives on campus and the Androscoggin Historical Society, to create a multimedia portrait of Lisbon Street, dating back to the days of electric trolley cars. In attendance at the big reveal included Professor Emeritus Doug Hodgkin, Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline, and Darby Ray, who collaborated with Smith. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
National recognition for Bates’ ‘exemplary’ success in community engagement as well as its return on investment for graduates

Friday, January 23, 2026 3:07 pm

Bates has once again been recognized by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for its deep level of commitment to community engagement, an honor the college first achieved in 2008 and again in 2015. Recently Bates was also lauded  by ACE and Carnegie for its success in providing paths for graduates to earn competitive wages.

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