Bates College has announced a 19-member Presidential Search Committee to identify and recommend to the Board of Trustees the next president of the college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe members of the committee \u2014 faculty, staff, students, and trustees, including eight who are alumni and four who are Bates parents \u2014 bring a broad spectrum of experience, expertise, and perspective to the work of searching for Bates\u2019 ninth president,\u201d said committee co-chairs and Bates trustees Andrea Conklin Bueschel \u201990 and Gregory Ehret \u201991 in an announcement to the Bates community on Sept. 29. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe look forward to working with them over the coming months, and thank them for their willingness to serve the college in this important capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The college\u2019s next president, its ninth since Bates\u2019 1855 founding, will succeed President Clayton Spencer, who announced earlier in the year<\/a> that she will step down on June 30, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Presidential Search Website<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Presidential Search website explains<\/a> the process of identifying, selecting, and appointing the ninth president of Bates College, including a timeline, opportunities for community input, and brief bios of the members of the Presidential Search Committee. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n Charged with conducting an \u201cactive, expansive, and inclusive search\u201d and seeking and considering \u201cthe perspectives of the Bates community about what it needs and desires in the next president,\u201d the Presidential Search Committee will be assisted in its work by the firm Isaacson, Miller<\/a> and receive administrative support from Jennifer Blanchard, senior writer and director of presidential initiatives, and Michael Hussey, vice president for institutional affairs and secretary to the Bates College Board of Trustees.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile the search committee will take the lead in identifying Bates\u2019 next president, the success of the process is very much dependent on the perspectives of all members of the Bates community as we consider what will matter most to the college in the years ahead and what qualities we should look for in our next president,\u201d said the co-chairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Isaacson, Miller is now conducting a series of in-person and online listening sessions for campus constituencies. In addition, the committee invites feedback and comments through this survey<\/a>, which is open to all members of the Bates community, and also via a dedicated email account, presidentialsearch@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The collective feedback will inform the next phase of the search and the development of a Leadership Profile that articulates the opportunities that await, as well as the qualities the college community seeks, in the next president of Bates College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrea Conklin Bueschel \u201990, Trustee (co-chair)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Gregory Ehret \u201991, P\u201923, Trustee (co-chair)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n John Baughman, Associate Professor of Politics<\/p>\n\n\n\n Geri FitzGerald \u201975, Trustee Emerita<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aydan Gedeon-Hope \u201925, Student<\/p>\n\n\n\n John Gillespie \u201980, P\u201913, P\u201918, Chair, Board of Trustees<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evelynn Hammonds, L.H.D. \u201911, Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n Faith Hauger, Administrative Coordinator for Student Affairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n David Longdon \u201914, Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alexandra Manning \u201923, Student<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lance Matthiesen \u201985, Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n Charles Nero, Benjamin E. Mays \u201920 Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n Katy Ott, Associate Professor of Mathematics<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stacey Rizza P\u201920, Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michelle Rosenberg \u201994, Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christine Schwartz, Associate Vice President for Dining, Conferences, and Campus Events<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anelise Shrout, Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n Darryl Uy, Director of Admission<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jean Wilson \u201981, P\u201905, P\u201913, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees<\/p>\n\n\n\n Special advisor to the committee: The committee comprises faculty, staff, students, and trustees, including eight who are alumni and four who are Bates parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":148963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"#000000","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"parallax","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148961"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148982,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148961\/revisions\/148982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Members of the 2022\u201323 Bates College Presidential Search Committee<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Scott Bierman \u201977, Trustee Emeritus and President of Beloit College
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