FInd answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about arrival on campus, helping your student get ready, and family orientation sessions. Your fall student-athlete should have their early ...

Bates College requires that all students have active, comprehensive health insurance coverage while enrolled, including coverage for both emergency and non-emergency care, to ensure that students have ...

Academic Misconduct Procedures Instances of academic misconduct can have independent consequences at two levels. The instructor may impose consequences at the course level through assignment and ...

This site is updated regularly to share information, including links to family obituaries, about the passing of Bates community members during the current academic year that begins each July 1. The ...

James Parakilas, a music scholar with a doctorate from Cornell University, teaches courses on music history and culture, music theory, and performance. He plays the piano, often in chamber groups with ...

Hill, a Bates politics professor, explains a historic act of protest during the infamous 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings — and what it means for her students today.

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Lalla Essaydi is a New York-based, Moroccan-born photographer, painter, and installation artist. Over the past decade, she has risen to international prominence with her timely and beautiful work that ...

Structural racism and a “survival of the fittest” mindset in STEM education won't be undone by waving an academic wand. It takes work — and listening to brave students. Here’s what Bates has been up ...

Shortridge Coastal Center supports academic programs and extracurricular activities associated with the college. It provides facilities for field research conducted by Bates faculty and students and ...

Hot Quad, summer on campus: Back of our neck getting dirty and…say, what rhymes with “campus,” anyway? Without the Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian to help with that couplet, we’ll just have to skip ...

In their recently published study “Defining promise: optional standardized testing policies in American college and university admissions”, Bill Hiss and Valerie Franks conclude that there are few ...