At their sold-out show at Portland's State Theatre, Big Thief, a Brooklyn-based indie-folk band, shouted out Bates.

Over Fall Break, the Center Purposeful Work brought 14 Bates students around Boston to network with alumni in the ...

In Francesco Duina's latest collection, The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World (Oxford ...

We hope their words remind you why you’re on this significant journey and that you can thrive here. Read them now, or when a ...

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 ...

Armendáriz, professor of politics, was certain that she would never make a career out of studying Latin America. But, when she was assigned to Mexico for her first post as a Foreign Service officer, ...

Stuart Gurley, who manages both Olin Arts and the applied music program at Bates, conducts several Bates students as they play alongside Fitter Hapoier, a Portland-based Radiohead tribute group, at ...

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 ...

Congratulations to Associate Professor of Economics Sandra Goff, who has received a National Science Foundation award from the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) to support her ...

Bates College will waive the admission application fee, beginning with the Fall 2025 pool of applicants. Previously, domestic applicants paid a $65 application fee but could request to have that fee ...

Welcome to the Fall 2025 semester! I hope you all had a good summer and are excited to start a new Fall semester at Bates. I write with some important information that will assist you in getting ...

We hope you’ve had a wonderful summer! As the fall semester approaches, here are some important dates and reminders to help your students ease back into campus life. If you’d like to connect with our ...