Engagement Working Group

This Engagement Working Group participant list is current as of January 25, 2024.

Name	Title
Jessica A. Berry	Assistant Dean of Students for Accessible Education
Dana T. Bosse	Talent Acquisition Specialist
Zachary P. Brown-Cross	Senior Coordinator for Residence Life
Hope E. Burnell	Assistant Vice President for Human Resources
Joseph D. Castonguay	Grounds & Maintenance Worker
Mark A. Cayer	Campus Safety Supervisor
Megan M. Couch	Board Plan Manager
Sylvia M. Deschaine	Academic Admin Assist, CSH Building Coordinator
Jessica Fournier	Employee Relations Specialist
Dre Gager	Associate Director of Institutional Research, Analysis & Planning
Curtis A. Johnson	Head Coach – Men’s & Women’s Track & Field
Keiko Konoeda	Lecturer
Alec C. Morrissey	Assistant Dean of Admission & Coordinator of Communications
Nicholas E. O’Brien	Senior Director of Digital Marketing
Patricia A. Rooney	Human Resources Director
Stephen C. Tate	Programmer/Analyst
Scott Tiner	Director of Client Services, ILS
Andrea S. Trumble	Academic Administrative Assistant, Roger Williams

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.

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.