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 ...

Brockman, C.F. 1986. Trees of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. Revised Edition. Western Pub. Co., Inc. 280pp. Elias, T.S. 1980. The Complete Trees of ...

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 ...

At Bates, we value relationships. These relationships allow students to learn, grow, and develop. The Student Support Advisor program is designed to help support the success of all of our students by ...

As the academic year drew to a close, the Harward Center for Community Partnerships celebrated the strength of the college’s engagement with the Lewiston–Auburn community with a string of grants and ...

At Bates’ 159th Commencement on Sunday, May 25, Commencement speaker Angela Duckworth began her address with one simple request to members of the audience: to take out their phones and hand them to ...

The scholarly output of the Bates community has now been accessed over 1 million times by researchers! SCARAB, our institutional repository at Bates College, serves researchers across the globe ...

The first gifts to support Bates College reflected donors’ hope for the future. Seth and Mary Hathorn gave Oren Cheney $5,000 to build Hathorn Hall with the hope that their gift would “do good” for ...