Stories about "The College"
Bates in the News: April 12, 2019
Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00 pm
Media outlets take notice of a new Gallup study on the value of purposeful work; and former Garcelon gridder Sam Francis ’17 now has a job crunching numbers for the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals.
Campus Construction Update: April 12, 2019
Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:31 pm
CCU spent a few minutes on March 28 watching the obliteration of the houses in which we had worked until last fall.
Exacting, empathetic, authentic: Kelley-Romano receives Kroepsch teaching award
Thursday, April 11, 2019 2:17 pm
She's known off campus for research on campaign rhetoric and alien abduction stories, but her students love her for keeping things real.
Bates-Gallup study finds ‘purpose gap’ between what college graduates seek and find in their work
Thursday, April 11, 2019 2:14 pm
The new study also suggests that Bates Purposeful Work offers ways that colleges and universities might better prepare students for the future of work.
Bates College Board of Trustees elects two new members
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 3:04 pm
Erica Stewart Bullard ’90 and Stacey Kelly P'21 have been elected to the Bates College Board of Trustees.
Tales of wayward trustees and lost telegrams from Bates’ founding trustee meeting
Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:38 pm
When you're launching a new college, as Oren Cheney was doing on this day in 1855, you sweat the details, you don’t suffer fools, and you watch your money.
‘Nice bubble of artistry’: 14 show work in 2019 Senior Thesis Exhibition
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 3:34 pm
Bates' senior studio art majors wield paintbrushes, fabric, clay, cameras, and more — but no cheesecloth — in this year's show.
Student research reveals China’s uneasy embrace of video gaming, hip-hop music
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 1:42 pm
Can "positive energy and socialist values" co-exist with Western pop culture? A Mount David Summit session takes a look.
To address today’s problems, look to Ella Baker, says scholar-activist Barbara Ransby
Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:19 pm
In her postponed Martin Luther King Jr. Day keynote, the renowned historian helps us parlay lessons of the past into a brighter future.
Video: Don’t just accept what you’re told, says Carlyle Turner ’19 — ‘challenge it’
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 9:13 am
A psychology major, Turner talks about the "mental sweat" and professors' guidance needed to gain essential skills for today's world.