Our outstanding students further Bates’ mission of global engagement in meaningful ways,” says President Garry W. Jenkins, as ...

The Edible Books Festival is a day of creativity and deliciousness where you get to represent a book with a food item you ...

Bates Professor Halbert Britan’s talk on falling in love captivated audiences nationwide in 1921. Now, on Valentine's Day, ...

Please for the love of god and all things holy, get rid of this goddamn tub of cream cheese. It is unsanitary and creates a massive crowd AND MASSIVE MESS around the bagel station and toasters. It’s a ...

How do the language learners’ perceptions of competence or incompetence impact their engagement in a digital storytelling project? In a chapter of the new work, The Politics of Incompetence: Learning ...

Mara Casey Tieken’s research focuses on racial and educational equity in rural schools and communities. Her book Why Rural Schools Matter (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), an ethnographic ...

The 50th anniversary edition of the Puddle Jump was for young and old, highlighted by the hand-in-hand kickoff jump by the event's founders, Chris Callahan ’78, Scott Copeland ’78, and Lars Llorente ...

Bates College is a residential college. Campus residence is required of all students except for those individuals who have been granted special permission by Student Affairs. Room assignments for ...

Benjamin Mays ’20 and the Rev. Martin Luther King promised each other: He who outlived the other would deliver his friend’s last eulogy. On April 9, 1968, Mays made good on the promise. Benjamin Mays ...

Class of 1936 – Governor, Senator, Presidential Candidate, Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, Class of 1936, Governor, Senator, Presidential Candidate, Secretary of State. Edmund Sixtus Muskie was ...