Stories about "Diversity"

Here’s what the NASA astronaut said to the Bates sophomore STEM students
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:36 pm
NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara joined a sophomore science class as part of program that seeks to disrupt the "weed-out" approach to STEM education.

Transformative: The Bates Mission Statement at age 10
Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:09 pm
Even as COVID-19 puts it to the test, the 2010 mission statement is a cultural touchstone for Bates.

Q&A: Senior Speaker Alexandria Onuoha ’20 and her hope that ‘Bates has students who love all people’
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 2:27 pm
From Onuoha's first campus visit to her majors in psychology and dance to work around inclusivity, the senior looks back, and forward.

Times and dates of five plays during Black History Month at Bates
Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:13 am
Bates’ Africana program offers five plays during Black History Month that use historical events as a springboard to explore white oppression and black resistance.

The play’s the thing as Bates honors Black History Month
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 1:29 pm
Using theater to convey history “makes things more immediate, more alive," says a Bates playwright.

Moviemakers aren’t the only winners in Bates Film Festival Awards
Friday, January 31, 2020 9:03 am
The process is prized by the students who pick the award-winners, too.

Picture story: MLK Day at Bates 2020
Friday, January 24, 2020 1:15 pm
Bates photographers Phyllis Graber Jensen and Theophil Syslo cover the college’s 2020 MLK Day observance from start to finish.

‘Ask questions’: Insights from student legal translators
Friday, January 24, 2020 12:01 pm
In an MLK Day panel, volunteers explained the complexities of providing legal translation for refugees and asylum seekers.

‘I don’t know why I said that’: MLK Day keynote looks at hidden bias
Thursday, January 23, 2020 10:12 am
Biased author Jennifer Eberhardt's talk was rich in science, often sobering, yet ultimately uplifting.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2020: Building justice from the ground up
Thursday, January 16, 2020 1:09 pm
The theme for this year's programming: “From the Ground Up: Inequity, Bias, Privilege, Structure, Death.”