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 ...

As we near the end of the semester, Bates is offering a varied lineup of arts events for the last few weeks of the year.

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 ...

To establish secure password requirements aligned with best practices and current National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines, ensuring protection of Bates College’s information ...

To establish first-time parent access in the payment portal, your student must log into the portal using their Bates credentials and add you as an authorized user. You’ll then receive an email ...

In her three years at Bates, Willa Laski ’26 of Bellevue, Idaho, has never once dressed up for classes, but on May 21, the economics major showed up for a test clad in navy blue suiting from head to ...

All Bates faculty members are scholars, but not all are public scholars. Public scholarship is research-based work for audiences beyond the academy. It can take many forms, but public scholarship ...

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 ...

As Mara Tieken was beginning her teaching career in 2002, she pulled out a map of the U.S. Carefully considering where she, as a new elementary school teacher, would land, Tieken gazed past urban ...

The vote by the Bates faculty, 40 years ago in the Filene Room in Pettigrew Hall, wasn’t even close: 58–27 in favor of making the submission of SAT scores optional for admission. It was the vote heard ...