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Meet new faculty in psychology, environmental studies, and anthropology
Friday, October 10, 2025 10:45 am
Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college over the course of the 2025-2026 academic year.
In the News: Oct. 10, 2025
Friday, October 10, 2025 10:44 am
For Mother Jones, in a Sept. 24 article headlined “How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery,” journalist Evan Mandery named Bates as an outlier — for its emphasis on meaning and purpose.
Picture Story: September 2025 at Bates
Friday, October 10, 2025 10:41 am
From Convocation to fierce field hockey matches, double overtime football victories, and relaxing on the quad, we bring you September 2025 at Bates.
Upcoming artistic events on the Bates campus
Monday, October 6, 2025 11:00 am
As the leaves begin to turn and the semester hits its stride, Bates College presents a dynamic lineup of arts and literary events on campus, showcasing the creativity of students, faculty, and visiting artists.
The way back Bates machine
Thursday, October 2, 2025 4:09 pm
Staff at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library love giving walking tours of the campus. They function like walking Bates encyclopedias, dropping tidbits about everything from which building was the first one on Frye Street to which are the oldest trees on campus.
‘Rising Star’ Marshall Hatch Jr. ’10 is on TIME 100 NEXT list
Thursday, October 2, 2025 3:54 pm
Marshall Hatch ’10 received a lot of texts on Sept. 30. Not surprising, given that at the crack of dawn, Time magazine announced its TIME 100 NEXT, naming him one of “The World’s Most Influential Rising Stars” for 2025.
Meet new Bates faculty from physics and astronomy, classical and medieval studies, and mathematics
Thursday, October 2, 2025 3:51 pm
Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News will introduce them in groups over this semester.
Bates launches new initiative for college access with Matriculate
Thursday, September 25, 2025 3:24 pm
Bates College is launching a new advising partnership with Matriculate, a national nonprofit that connects high-achieving, low-income high school students with near-peer mentors to support their path to college.
Museum’s director Carrie Cushman: The world needs museums more than ever
Thursday, September 25, 2025 3:00 pm
Carrie Cushman joined the college as director of the Bates College Museum of Art in August. She came to Bates from the University of Hartford, where she had been the Edith Dale Monson Gallery director and curator at the university’s Hartford Art School.
Bates in the news: Sept. 25, 2025
Thursday, September 25, 2025 2:31 pm
A selection of recent mentions of Bates people in the news, including coverage of new poetry from a faculty member along with commentaries on the homelessness crisis, the Trump administration’s spending bill, and rural students in higher education.