Office of the President

I write to outline important aspects of our institutional response to the urgent problem of climate change and to address the question of whether the college should divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry.

On behalf of Bates College, I reject unequivocally the boycott of Israeli universities that was recently passed by a majority of the members of the American Studies Association.

I write to share with you developments at the college as we welcome the Class of 2017 and begin a new academic year.

Thank you, Brent, and thank you, Matt, for those very thoughtful reflections. I am going to direct my remarks today…

Well, I guess now I really am the eighth president of Bates College. It is an enormous honor and a…

Welcome back, faculty, staff and returning students, to the beginning of a new year. And welcome, Class of 2016, to…

Watch video remarks from Bates’ eighth President, Clayton Spencer Educating the whole person: Why Bates? The liberal arts: Bates as…

Remarks by President-elect Clayton Spencer on Dec. 4, 2011, following her introduction by Mike Bonney ’80, chair of the Bates…