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The Chronicle of Higher Education\u2019s<\/em> 2022\u201323 Almanac<\/em> issue is, as is typical of the annual publication, jammed with data about all things academic, from college and university finances to information about student enrollment, characteristics and diversity, financial aid and outcomes. Down to a state-by-state level, it\u2019s a meticulous snapshot of higher education today. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>‘s 2022-2023 Almanac issue exclusively features Bates photography, including this image of dancer Emily Dewey \u201922 during a dress rehearsal of After All\/This<\/em>, choreographed by Assistant Professor of Dance Brian Evans, on Sept. 30, 2021. (Theophil Syslo\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Beyond the numbers, Bates is well represented in this year’s Almanac, which exclusively features photos from campus by members of the Bates Communications photography team, from the striking cover image by Multimedia Producer Theophil Syslo to a half-dozen images by Phyllis Graber Jensen, director of photography and video, as well as a dynamic piece of sports photography made by a member of the BCO student visual team, Matthew Hamilton ’25 of Sudbury, Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These scenes of life at Bates were chosen by Erica Lusk, senior photo and media editor for both The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> and The Chronicle of Philanthropy<\/em>. Some months ago, Lusk asked Graber Jensen if Bates would be willing to lend its work to illustrate the issue, to evoke the hybrid nature of higher ed in 2021\u201322, with the pandemic still weighing heavily on our minds \u2014notwithstanding a highly vaccinated population \u2014 and changing the way we learned, taught, played, and danced. The Chronicle<\/em> had used photography from a single institution last year, and she\u2019d wanted to do so again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Already familiar with Graber Jensen\u2019s work, and drawn to the deep storytelling of the college\u2019s photography-focused Exposure<\/a> presence, Lusk asked if Bates would be interested in filling the same role. \u201cI\u2019ve been a fan of Phyllis and her work for years and was happy to have an opportunity to finally collaborate,\u201d Lusk says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were honored to be asked,\u201d Graber Jensen says, adding that she had admired the way last year’s issue featured imagery from photojournalist Charles Ledford at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how does a photo editor like Lusk choose just a handful of images from the thousands of photographs that BCO photographers create each year? And how does she meet the added responsibility of summing up, in few photographs, a complex year at a small liberal arts college in Maine during year two of a pandemic, while also conjuring up relatable images that speak to a more generic sense of higher education itself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This image from move-in day for the Class of 2025, on Aug. 26, 2021, was among nine Bates photographs featured in The<\/em> Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>‘s 2022\u201323 Almanac. Garrett Glasgow \u201925 of Salt Lake City offers a thumbs up to two student members of the college\u2019s Residence Life team, junior advisors Nissim Gurung \u201924 of Pokhara, Nepal, and Lauren Farrell \u201924 of Middletown, Conn. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To get the project started, Graber Jensen shared links to photo-driven stories and features in Bates News, including examples of This Month at Bates<\/a>, a monthly exploration of campus; a photo essay capturing the dynamic<\/a> between a student cellist and his collaborative pianist; portraits by Syslo of students in their outfits <\/a>for the annual Trashion Show; and images accompanying an in-depth story about senior studio art majors<\/a> preparing for their Senior Thesis Exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The images that we routinely share with our own audience document historical moments, the individuals who study and work here, and the seasonal geography of our beautiful campus,” said Graber Jensen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This image by student photojournalist Matthew Hamilton \u201925 of Sudbury, Mass., led off the Student section of the Almanac He made this image of Harris Ramlee ’25 at a home men\u2019s squash match on Jan. 10, 2022. (Matthew Hamilton ’25 for Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lusk took over from there, winnowing until she had what she needed \u2014 nine images in all \u2014 including the cover, a photograph by Syslo of a masked dancer reaching skyward in a purple-lit Schaeffer Theatre, an image reflecting the hybrid year most institutions had found themselves grappling with: mostly in person but masked whenever COVID numbers spiked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lusk also asked Syslo and Graber Jensen to explain what 2021\u201322 was like for them as Bates photographers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe thought it would be, at a minimum, a better year than the last, and maybe even a very good one, for both us and all our communities,\u201d the photo team wrote. It turned out to be something in between: “The Year of the Hybrid, with a side of Variants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prior year\u2019s severe restrictions were mostly gone, “but we were still…vigilant and wary \u2014 mask on, mask off, with an occasional call from a contact tracer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taken on Dec. 3, 2021, this image led off the Faculty section of the Almanac. It shows senior thesis student Osceola Heard \u201922 of Newark, N.J., analyzing data for an antiviral target gene with Assistant Professor of Biology Lori Banks in her Bonney Science Center laboratory. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/ Bates College)
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It was a challenge to be creative, they wrote, \u201cbut every day, we saw Bates students, faculty, and staff working to connect and reconnect, to restore the ways of community life. Joined by our student contributors, we sought to capture that commitment to community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are in a new normal,\u201d writes Chronicle<\/em> data coordinator Julia Piper in the editor\u2019s note that opens the issue, adjacent to an image Graber Jensen took of Bridget Fullerton, lecturer in humanities and acting director of writing, crossing the porch of Coram Library on a January day with her dog, Ruby, an 8-month-old Chinook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bridget Fullerton, lecturer in humanities and acting director of writing, walking her dog Ruby on a cold January day. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The image, shot at the magic hour of what is obviously an icy day, echoes the uncertainty evoked by Piper\u2019s description of \u201cthe tidal wave of the pandemic\u201d continuing to impact higher education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Almanac, Piper writes, aims to provide \u201can overview of where colleges and universities, faculty and staff members, and students are as we head into the new academic year.\u201d And so it does. The numbers are all there, and this time around, Bates provided the faces that connect them to real life on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the section on student outcomes, the Chronicle<\/em> chose an image Graber Jensen made of President Clayton Spencer on April 8 as she welcomed the Bates community to Pettengill Hall\u2019s Perry Atrium for the Mount David Summit, the first face-to-face (albeit masked) edition of student academic showcase since 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Social distanced, but together again at the Mount David Summit 2022, as President Clayton Spencer welcomes the Bates community to Pettengill Hall\u2019s Perry Atrium on April 8. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another image of Graber Jensen\u2019s led the Administration section. It shows first-year student Miles Hagedorn of Yarmouth, Maine, helping senior history major Liv Silva of North Billerica, Mass., bind her thesis (titled \u201cExcluded from the Gold Mountain: Anti-Chinese Misogyny and Racialized Immigration Restriction\u201d) in Ladd Library, each of them giving it a kiss to make it official. The two became friends while working together in the Bates theater production of 35mm<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Bates tradition, the binding of the thesis, is sealed with a kiss from history major Liv Silva \u201922 of North Billerica, Mass., and Miles Hagedorn \u201925 of Yarmouth, Maine. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The section of the Almanac that covers institutional finances is led by an image Graber Jensen shot in May of the effort to get ready for Commencement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It shows Jeremy Lavertu, horticultural lead for Grounds and Maintenance, planting spring flowers around the Class of 1932 Sundial with an assist from Charlotte Collins \u201822 of Woolwich, Maine, one of the student workers on the Facility Services grounds crew during Short Term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This image led off the Almanac section on Finances. Charlotte Collins \u201922 of Woolwich, Maine lends a helping hand to Jeremy Lavertu, the grounds and maintenance lead for horticulture, as spring arrives in Maine and Commencement 2022 approaches. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The final image the Chronicle<\/em> selected is another of Graber Jensen\u2019s, featuring Sukanya Shukla \u201920 and her classmates tossing their mortarboards to the sky at the close of the long-postponed, in-person graduation celebration for members of the Class of 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years ago, on their official Commencement Day in 2020, the pandemic meant the ceremony had to be entirely virtual. But on June 4, 2022, Bates delivered on its promise to bring the class back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sukanya Shukla \u201920 and her classmates tossing their mortarboards to the sky at the long-postponed graduation celebration for members of the Class of 2020. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That event, and the Class of 2022’s Commencement the week before, marked another step toward a return to normalcy, “all of us together, smiles visible as masks were shed,” wrote Syslo and Graber Jensen. “Sharing their joy was good for the soul, a reminder that things can get better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As visual historians, dedicated to documenting Bates with passion and integrity, we wouldn\u2019t have missed any of it \u2014 ups, downs, and in-betweens \u2014 for the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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