1863-1894, Oren Cheney 1894-1919, George Colby Chase 1920-1944, Clifton Daggett Gray 1944-1967, Charles Phillips 1967-1989, Thomas Reynolds 1989-2002, Donald Harward 2002-2011, Elaine Tuttle Hansen 2012-2023, Clayton Spencer 2023-present, Garry Jenkins
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Garry Jenkins formally installed as 9th president of Bates College
‘A joyful day’ for college as it recognizes its first Black and gay leader.
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College graduations begin in Maine even as protests disrupt ceremonies around the U.S.
Protests have mostly been small and peaceful on Maine campuses, where students have joined the call to end to the war in Gaza and for their schools to divest from defense funds.
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Pop-up film showings around Bates Campus spotlight the power of Indigenous cinema
The Bates College Museum of Art will present “Presence is Power,” a night of 11 short films by Indigenous filmmakers from 4:30-7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at several locations on campus at Bates College in Lewiston. This night’s showing broadens and deepens the film program on view as part of the current exhibition “Exploding […]
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Bates College agrees to pay former coach’s children sickened by mold in college-owned house
The settlement between the Lewiston college and former head football coach Malik Hall says nothing about a variety of racial claims.
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Vegan Kitchen: Nationally known food justice advocate and vegan chef to speak at Bates
Bryant Terry will give keynote address at the college’s food justice forum on Martin Luther King Day.
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Bates students emerge from lockdown seeking ways to help
Bates College sophomores Ella Nichol and Emma Erkkila signed up to donate blood in the wake of the Lewiston shootings, and said they considered donating blood a way to give back to their community because, as they put it, “Lewiston is home.” Neither Nichol nor Erkkila has donated blood before, but said their entire group […]
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‘We could just hear sirens’: Bates students mourn with their neighbors
A night of panic turned into 2 days of uncertainty as students sheltered in place on campus.
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Former ‘Janes’ social justice advocates to talk at Lewiston screening of HBO documentary
The early work of the two lifelong civil rights workers 50 years ago is shown in the Emmy-winning documentary.
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Two contemporary exhibitions center Indigenous programing and events at Bates College
The exhibition “Exploding Native Inevitable,” on display October 27, through March 4, 2024, at the Bates College Museum of Art, features thirteen Indigenous artists and one collaborative from around the nation on the vanguard of their practices in ceramics, painting, video, fiber arts, and more. Occurring simultaneously, a new solo exhibition “Brad Kahlhamer: Nomadic Studio, […]