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

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 ...

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

Take a full campus tour, learn about admission and financial aid in detail, speak with students working diligently on their theses and enjoy a meal in Commons! The 50th anniversary edition of the ...

LaTeX is a system for high-quality technical typesetting. Most mathematicians and many other people use LaTeX to typeset papers, exams, books, and more. The LaTeX Project Home Page has additional ...

Short Term at Bates — four weeks at the height of Maine’s spring, from late April through May — is a time for intense, focused work. You’ll live and breathe one class, and one class only. It’s an ...

The Ladds stand with President T. Hedley Reynolds in front of the Library at the dedication ceremony, 1979. Photo courtesy of Bates College Special Collections. George and Helen Ladd, for whom Bates ...

Purposeful Work at Bates is about helping students discover the joy and power that arise from aligning who they are with what they do. It helps students identify and cultivate their interests and ...

Students in Brett Huggett’s Plant Physiology class (Bio 380) learn hands-on about how plants function. Courses offered for the current and upcoming terms can be accessed through the Garnet Gateway. To ...