{"id":78168,"date":"2014-05-07T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=78168"},"modified":"2024-07-01T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:59:49","slug":"stangle-family-catalyst-fund-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/05\/07\/stangle-family-catalyst-fund-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Stangle family makes leadership gift to Catalyst Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Stangle family, synonymous with leadership and philanthropy at Bates, has made a significant new commitment of $750,000 to the college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this gift, Bruce Stangle \u201970 and his wife, Emily Siegel Stangle \u201972, join the multimillion dollar Catalyst Fund effort supporting major strategic initiatives at Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emily Siegel Stangle ’72 and Bruce Stangle ’70 attend a reception at the Bates College Museum of Art in 2012 honoring Bruce as the inaugural recipient of the Bruce Stangle Award for Distinguished Service to the Bates Community. (Jose Leiva)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“Bates is a jewel of a school,\u201d said Bruce Stangle during a recent campus visit to speak in the Voices in Entrepreneurship Series. \u201cFor over 150 years it\u2019s been training leaders. The people who graduate from Bates make a real difference in the world, and that\u2019s an important mission that we want to support.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Stangles’ gift to the Catalyst Fund, he added, is a \u201cpublic show of support for what President Spencer is trying to do. She has a very tough job, and we want to lend our shoulder and financial resources to help her and help Bates move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Catalyst Fund supports three college initiatives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

+<\/span>The Engaged Liberal Arts: Deep and sustained interactions<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>
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The \u201cengaged liberal arts\u201d means delivering a rigorous and highly personalized education that centers on deep and sustained interactions among students, faculty, and community. It also means engaging the forces \u2014 intellectual trends, demographic changes, and technology \u2014 that are transforming higher education and the world into which our students graduate. It means making a virtue of our scale; creating a diverse and motivated community of students, faculty, and staff; and embracing innovative and evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

+<\/span>Purposeful Work: The heart of the liberal arts mission<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>
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Purposeful work is a college-wide initiative built on the premise that preparing students for lives of meaningful work lies at the heart of the liberal arts mission. When fully developed it will include: (1) a co-curricular program involving cycles of exploration, reflection, and skill-building; (2) practitioner-taught courses during short term, and (3) a highly-structured Bates-specific network of internships, with the hope to guarantee every Bates student a paid internship that is either employer- or Bates-sponsored.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

+<\/span>Opportunity and Excellence: Directly out of Bates’ history and mission<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>
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A commitment to opportunity and excellence grows directly out of Bates\u2019 history and mission and responds to contemporary geographic, demographic, and economic realities. It means recruiting talented and motivated students from a broad range of backgrounds, providing them with the financial aid that will enable them to enroll, and supporting them for academic and personal success once here. It also means creating a campus community and climate that capitalize on diversity and inclusion as necessary and powerful dimensions of preparing our students to live and work in an increasingly interconnected world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Stangles\u2019 gift is invaluable,\u201d said President Clayton Spencer. \u201cIt provides much-needed support for students and faculty alike, and is an important endorsement of our strategic direction. I am profoundly thankful to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah R. Pearson \u201975, vice president for college advancement, said that this \u201cgenerous gift helps us raise our sights for Bates and demonstrates the importance of the Catalyst Fund in providing new momentum in philanthropy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Incredible value to its graduates.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

An English major at Bates who holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Stangle is the co-founder of Analysis Group<\/a>, the nation\u2019s largest private economic consulting firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love Bates and believe that Bates delivers incredible value to its graduates,\u201d he added.  \u201cAlso, I think that making our philanthropy public can provide spillover benefits for Bates by creating a demonstration effect. I\u2019m confident that there are many others willing to give back to Bates for the education they received.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Bates trustee emeritus, he was recognized in 2011 for his many contributions to the college with the creation of the Bruce Stangle Award for Distinguished Service. Over the years, he has helped countless Bates students and alumni navigate the business world and, among other outcomes, helped to launch the Boston Bates Business Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Stangle family\u2019s philanthropy has included the Betty Doran Stangle Professorship in Applied Economics, named for Bruce\u2019s mother and currently held by Professor Margaret Maurer-Fazio<\/a>; a leadership gift that named, in his father\u2019s memory, Frank’s Lounge in the student residence at 280 College St.; and the Stangle Family Fund to support research and awards in economics and law, and provide scholarship support for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matt Perejda ’14 of Newry, Maine, talks with Stangle during his campus visit in March for the Voices in Entrepreneurship Series, sponsored by the college’s Purposeful Work initiative. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

During his campus visit on March 5 for the Voices in Entrepreneurship Series<\/a> \u2014 a program that he helped to organize \u2014 Stangle sat down with students one-on-one for a series of informational interviews, dispensing career advice and encouraging mentees <\/a>to lean on the Bates network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the evening, he gave a talk on \u201cBest in Class: Investing in People and Culture at a Top Consulting Firm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regularly named one of the best places to work<\/a> by The Boston Globe<\/i> and other media outlets, Analysis Group gets high praise for maintaining a work culture that prizes both collaboration and leadership, without putting the two at odds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That culture, Stangle says, was imported straight from Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Bates entrepreneurs know how to create good work environments because it matters to us how we motivate, reward and incentivize people,\u201d Stangle says. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBates entrepreneurs know how to create good work environments because it matters to us how we motivate, reward and incentivize people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Bates culture produces people with the ability to lead, take personal responsibility and work as a team, and those personal characteristics are what my firm also tries to encourage.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that the Bates culture “made an imprint on me, as I know it has on so many other alumni. The values around hard work, inclusion, caring and excellence have been with me my entire life because of the experiences I had at Bates and continue to have with the wider Bates community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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