The Lewiston campus adds more testing, extends masking requirement as it aims to keep its semester on track.
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A Bates College senior from Kabul helps save her family from the Taliban
Two sisters in America found Americans in Afghanistan to evacuate their parents and younger siblings.
A near-normal Bates College welcomes a supersized new class
The Class of 2025, which arrived this week, hopes for an academic year that isn’t disrupted much by the pandemic.
Bates College tells students, faculty and staff they must wear masks
Reversing fall plans, the Lewiston college tells its mostly-vaccinated community that high COVID-19 rates in Lewiston require a return to a mask mandate on campus.
With vaccine mandates for students in place, Bates College eyes a return to near normal in the fall
Vaccinated students will no longer need masks and won’t have to stay 6 feet apart anymore as most COVID-19 restrictions are dropped at the Lewiston campus.
Bates College seeks to reduce heated interactions between students and campus security
A new report on campus safety urges more residential life staffers and greater effort to ease tensions between safety officers and students at the Lewiston college.
Bates College encourages staff to get COVID-19 vaccines but opts not to require them
Though its students must get inoculated before the fall semester, staff say employees can choose to go without as long as they wear masks and maintain distance.
Attorney General will not proceed with probe into pro-Palestine graffiti at Bates College
The Maine A.G.’s Office said the pro-Palestine writing expressed opinions “that would not be actionable under the Maine Civil Rights Act.”
Bates College to hold commencement Thursday — twice!
To limit exposure to COVID-19, seniors at the Lewiston college are graduating in two groups this year — half in the morning, half in the afternoon.