{"id":2510,"date":"2020-10-09T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T19:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/oie\/?page_id=2510"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:58:44","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission &amp; Guiding Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/files\/2025\/07\/Website-images-5.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/files\/2025\/07\/Website-images-5-900x506.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/files\/2025\/07\/Website-images-5-900x506.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/files\/2025\/07\/Website-images-5-400x225.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/files\/2025\/07\/Website-images-5-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/files\/2025\/07\/Website-images-5-1116x628.jpg 1116w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/files\/2025\/07\/Website-images-5-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/files\/2025\/07\/Website-images-5.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Student Center for Belonging and Community (SCBC), &#8220;We are&nbsp;committed to dismantling systems of oppression by actively centering<strong> <\/strong>and<strong> <\/strong>celebrating the voices and experiences of historically marginalized student identities. We foster belonging by creating spaces that encourage agency, awareness, and self-advocacy. We collaborate with students to explore their identities, develop community, and build connections through programs grounded in intersectionality, equity, and justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our work centers around three guiding principles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Community<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Connection<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Support<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Student Center for Belonging and Community (SCBC), &#8220;We are&nbsp;committed to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_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":""},"class_list":["post-2510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2510\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-center-belonging-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}