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October 30, 2025

Bates President Garry W. Jenkins signs AAC&U statement on the Trump administration’s ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’

In early October 2025, the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) published a statement on the Trump administration’s “Compact…

October 30, 2025

Meet new faculty in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetori…

New faculty join Bates in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetoric. Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college over the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing them in groups over this semester. Part 1 ran in our newsletter of September 25, part 2 went out in our October 3 newsletter and Part 3 appeared in our October 10 newsletter.

October 30, 2025

Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz, professor of politics, receives Kro…

Before she joined the U.S. Foreign Service, Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz, professor of politics, was certain that she would never make a career out of studying Latin America. But, when she was assigned to Mexico for her first post as a Foreign Service officer, everything changed.

October 30, 2025

Radiohead Trending: Bates students jam in Olin with professio…

Her electric violin at the ready on her right shoulder, Mavy Ho-Le ’26 started to slowly tap her foot on the stage at Olin Arts Center. It was Saturday Oct. 25 and the first strains of Radiohead’s 2016 song “Daydreaming,” were beginning to emerge from Fitter Happier, a Radiohead tribute band based in Portland.