Bates aims to avoid the campus closures that have hit other colleges as omicron variant takes hold.
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Booster shots encouraged but not required for Bates College students
The Lewiston college says more COVID-19 restrictions may be needed next semester, but not yet and maybe never.
Bates College selected for initiative to increase enrollment of low-income students and undocumented immigrants
A foundation will match up to $50 million to help those unable to afford a liberal arts education.
Bates College beefs up defenses to combat COVID-19
The Lewiston campus adds more testing, extends masking requirement as it aims to keep its semester on track.
Bates College professor among featured guests for ‘Stories from the Stage’ season premiere
9/11 rememberance
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.