Stories about "convocation"

Picture story: Convocation and Memorial Tree Planting at Bates College
Friday, September 3, 2021 1:01 pm
Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen of two academic rituals of a new academic year, Convocation and the Memorial Tree Planting, on Aug. 31, 2021.

10 pieces of advice, for all of us, from a wisdom-filled Bates College Convocation
Friday, September 3, 2021 11:53 am
Convocation and Commencement bookend the year with a similar look and feel. Similar, too, in offering sound advice, useful to far more than first years.

The rhetoric of a Bates Convocation reminds us why we’re here
Friday, September 4, 2020 11:59 am
After a summer where the endless rounds of pandemic planning and announcements seemed to define the college enterprise, Opening Convocation offered welcome reminders of what we’re all about.

Lining up for Convocation, five Bates professors share what they’re excited to teach
Thursday, September 5, 2019 3:34 pm
A redesigned chemistry course, a class for costume designers, and the "exciting and frightening" relevance of constitutional law.

Convocation speaker Dolores Huerta to the Class of ’23: ‘We have the power’
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 4:04 pm
Not every Bates academic year begins with a legend of the American labor movement leading a chant of “Yes we can!”

Video: For Walter Washington ’19, “it started with taking an opportunity”
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 11:09 am
An award-winning senior, Washington offers advice to Batesies just starting out.

Convocation 2018 remarks: Associate Professor of History Joseph Hall
Friday, September 7, 2018 10:24 am
Associate Professor of History Joseph Hall explores Bates’ complicated early history and its implications for us

Picture story: The academic year kicks off
Friday, September 7, 2018 9:03 am
See all the photography of Orientation Week, from Opening Day to Convocation to the women's soccer season opener.

Convocation 2018 remarks: Student Government President Walter Washington ’19
Thursday, September 6, 2018 5:28 pm
Make your education go hand in hand with making change, the Bates student government president tells the Class of 2022.

2018 Convocation: Practice empathy — and let it transform you
Thursday, September 6, 2018 11:05 am
At Bates’ 2018 Convocation, the theme of making a difference in the world gained a sharp new urgency.