First-year students are assessed a fee of $425 which appears on the fall semester bill. This one-time fee covers the cost of programming, transportation for orientation activities, and the cost of ...

Over the years, student groups in the course Community-Engaged Research in Environmental Studies- ENVR 417 have completed projects for their community partners in Lewiston, Auburn, and surrounding ...

During the academic year, all students may work a maximum of 20 hours per week. This rule stands true for Federal Work-Study eligible students, non-work-study students, international students, and U.S ...

The Program in Classical and Medieval Studies combines a uniquely interdisciplinary study of cultural history with an emphasis on empowering students to read and interrogate texts in the relevant ...

Located in Lewiston, Maine, Bates is internationally recognized as a leading liberal arts college. We are proud to offer a highly personalized education that centers on deep and sustained interactions ...

Benjamin Mays ’20 and the Rev. Martin Luther King promised each other: He who outlived the other would deliver his friend’s last eulogy. On April 9, 1968, Mays made good on the promise. Benjamin Mays ...

Bates values faculty who are active scholars and artists, highly effective educators, and engaged participants in the shared governance of the institution. The Bates Faculty Development Fund is ...

Mara Casey Tieken’s research focuses on racial and educational equity in rural schools and communities. Her book Why Rural Schools Matter (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), an ethnographic ...

Take a full campus tour, learn about admission and financial aid in detail, speak with students working diligently on their theses and enjoy a meal in Commons! We pay tribute to the late, remarkable ...

LaTeX is a system for high-quality technical typesetting. Most mathematicians and many other people use LaTeX to typeset papers, exams, books, and more. The LaTeX Project Home Page has additional ...

After 22 years of marriage and 10 children, Charles Dickens famously dumped his wife, Catherine Dickens, in 1858. Wielding the power of his pen, he alleged that Catherine was mentally unbalanced and ...

We pay tribute to the late, remarkable Jimmy Carter, who died today at age 100, by recalling his historic visit to Bates in 1985 to honor his friend Edmund Muskie '36 and to praise the greatness of ...