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BEGINNING ALL PHOTOS BY PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN AND JOSH KUCKENS, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. INTRODUCTION | 1

From its inception in 1855, and before nearly every other college in America, Bates recruited students without regard to race, religion, national origin, or sex. Our founders firmly believed, as we do today, that not only should a Bates education be open to all, but that it is bettered by this openness. Diversity and inclusion — of thought, background, and experience — is not optional or aspirational here. It is vital.

Throughout our more than 160-year history, our movement forward has been deeply thoughtful, intentional, and committed to getting it right. We have tough conversations in tough climates because that’s what makes Bates, and our students, better. It’s what makes Bates a college for the coming times and a college that prepares you for the coming times, too.

That is our mission.

Liberal Arts with a Purpose As local schoolchildren swarmed into a Bates astronomy show, one captured everyone’s excitement: “I love science!” Bates students created the April 2017 show to bolster children’s confidence with STEM fields — “to encourage their scientific interest, capacity, and identity,” says Assistant Professor of Physics Aleks Diamond-Stanic. His own research is anything but child’s play: He uses data from telescopes to understand supermassive black holes. TAKE ACADEMICS | 3

Two traditional semesters. THE LEAD One Short Term. Short Term at Bates — five weeks at the height of Maine’s spring, - - from late April through May — is a time for intense, focused 4Bates’ unique4 academic1 work. You’ll live and breathe one class and one class only. It’s an calendar: two semesters immersive experience, often off campus, and you’ll be a better and a five-week spring Your interests don’t fit neatly in one category, and at Bates, student at the end of it. Short Term we embrace that. Your path to graduation will be unique, and we’re ready to help you find it. 100% of faculty hold a terminal degree in their field, and their small classes ensure that you’re well- supported in your work.

Majors and minors Bold = available as a major and a minor

African American Studies German American Cultural Studies Greek (minor only) Anthropology History Art & Visual Culture Interdisciplinary Studies Asian Studies (minor only) Japanese Biological Chemistry Latin (minor only) Biology Latin American Studies 37majors Chemistry Mathematics Chinese Music Classical & Medieval Studies Neuroscience Dance Philosophy Digital & Computational Physics Studies (forthcoming) Politics East Asian Studies Psychology Economics Religious Studies Educational Studies (minor only) Rhetoric Engineering* Russian (minor only) English Sociology 25minors Environmental Studies Spanish European Studies Teacher Education (minor only) French & Francophone Studies Theater Gender & Sexuality Studies Geology * In the Engineering major, students participate in the 3-2 Accessible faculty Dual Degree program, completing three years at Bates Our 10:1 student-to-faculty and two years at one of our partner Engineering institutions, including Case Western, Columbia, Dartmouth, RPI, ratio ensures that you’ll work or Washington University. closely with your professors. SHORT TERM | 5

GEO S10: Tetons, Yellowstone, and Craters of the Moon THIS IS WHAT GEO S10 was designed to develop geologic field skills. Students and faculty traveled to the Northern Rockies of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, undertaking mapping projects and investigating economic geology at sites like Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, the Berkeley Pit copper SHORT TERM mine in Butte, Montana, and the Craters of the Moon lava field in Idaho. LOOKS LIKE “There’s so much space. You can’t even comprehend how much there is between you and the next big thing.” Lindsey Beauregard ’18 Hollis, N.H. | Neuroscience RESEARCH | 7 GRADUATE LEVEL WORK A perennial Fulbright top producer Bates has been named a Fulbright Top Producer for six consecutive years. In 2016–17, 13 students received Fulbright grants — the fifth most among Bachelor-granting institutions. How do we do it?

• Meaningful cultural exchanges within the diverse community of Lewiston/Auburn Intensive and often interdisciplinary, the senior thesis at Bates is nearly universal — 96% of students complete a thesis or capstone • Supportive mentoring relationships with faculty project. It’s another case of Bates’ commitment to your growth as a scholar. 88Fulbright grants • Excellent advising, grants, and fellowships for community-based learning % through Bates’ Harward Center for Community Partnerships offered to Bates Through this work, students master their subject and their research • Robust study-abroad programming and 96% participation students and alumni methodology. They work one-on-one with a faculty advisor, growing in Senior Thesis or capstone projects in the last six years the relationship of teacher and student into that of colleagues. It’s 87of employers say the final chapter, preparing you for what’s next after Bates, whether they’re more likely to it’s graduate school, professional life, or another path. hire a student who has Just make sure it’s yours. completed a senior thesis or capstone project

Recent thesis examples: A Survey of Wavelet Theory and Methods Suited for Times Series Analysis

Introversion-Extraversion and the Constitution of an Activist: Exploring Personality Value Patterns in Social Movement Engagement

Nonlinear Dynamics of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers subject to Optical Injection

Not a Laughing Matter: John Oliver, Burkean Frames, and the Performance of Public Intellect

The Boat is My Family: Embodiment and Belonging in Shetland Fishing Communities From Bates to Fulbright Tara Das ’16, a double major in politics and French from Biandronno, Italy, was A distinctive feature of Bates awarded a 2016–17 Fulbright From first-year seminars that strengthen English Teaching Assistant writing and critical thinking skills, to methods Award in Turkey as she courses, independent studies, and the senior graduated from Bates, and she thesis, the Bates curriculum helps students was offered a second English build the skills and habits of mind they need Teaching Assistant Award in to undertake rigorous independent research. 2017–18, this time in Morocco. PROFILES | 9 Paige Guevarra ’18, Brooklyn, N.Y. STUDENT Biology

Nonstop creative adventure I wanted to pursue science, and Bates had so many programs that allowed for undergraduate research. I’ve pursued my interests in biology, geology, and dance, as well as explored chemistry, environmental studies, theater, and music.

Following my first year, I worked in an Experimental Volcanology lab, and this summer I’m working in the Plant “Bates says it values teaching Ecology lab studying pollination cues. I’ve been included in the design of and supports research in many, the experiment, have learned how to many ways. A lot of schools handle bumblebees, and have been in charge of organizing my time in lab say that. Bates really walks most effectively. the walk.”

Nathan Lundblad (Ph.D., CalTech) FACULTY Associate Professor of Physics

“I’m excited to think Walking the walk about the new people Bates professor Nathan Lundblad watches the International Space Station’s and experiences that Cold Atom Laboratory with more than just routine scientific interest. will continue to surprise An atomic physicist, Lundblad is one of a handful of scientists chosen by me at Bates over the NASA to perform research with the Cold Atom Laboratory, a refrigerator- sized apparatus designed to create the coldest known environment in the next two years.” universe—one ten-billionth of a degree above absolute zero.

What that means for him (and his Bates students) is opportunity.

“I’m excited for my students, that they’ll have opportunities to do research at this level. And it raises the profile of science at liberal arts colleges like Bates to be able to participate in work like this.” BATES AND ITS PLACE | 11 SEE YOURSELF

QUEBEC, CANADA NEW BRUNSWICK, HERE CANADA Quebec City (5 h 10 min drive)

MAINE Montreal (4 h 45 min drive) A vibrant community with a role for young leaders, the twin cities of Acadia Lewiston/Auburn make up Maine’s second largest metropolitan area. One National Park (2 h 35 min drive) Quebec City of the fastest-growing communities in Maine, the cities are home to a diverse Lewiston/Auburn population of 60,000, and Bates considers its role in Lewiston/Auburn tightly (30 min drive to the Freeport L.L. Bean flagship) bound to the community itself. Located at a regional crossroads, Bates VERMONT (45 min drive to the city’s La Méthode NEW Portland vibrant Old Port) is deeply connected to the wider world while still offering easy access to HAMPSHIRE Historique Maine’s rugged mountains, pristine lakes, and rocky coastline. Students in “Introduction to Historical Boston (2 h 20 min drive) Methods” (HIST S40) spent two days NEW YORK MASSACHUSETTS traveling in Quebec City to study the

CONNECTICUT RHODE immigration and culture of French ISLAND Canadians to Lewiston and other parts of the United States. New York City (6 h 15 min drive or 1 h 10 min flight from Portland to NYC) PENNSYLVANIA NEW JERSEY

N Atlantic Ocean Maine’s famed Acadia National Park 100 years old in 2016 — and just a two and a half hour drive from campus.

Our connection to Lewiston/Auburn is invaluable, and it’s something the college and our students cultivate intently. And with good reason. With an entrepreneurial climate, a lively arts scene, and a dynamic small business community, there are plenty of opportunities for students and graduates to engage with, impact, and make a home in Lewiston/Auburn.

Touring Lewiston An important part of first-year We purposefully blur the lines between the campus and the greater orientation: Lewiston/Auburn community. This is a real college, in a real place, and you’ll graduate into

Walkabouts. These guided Acadia National Park iStock tours offer new students an the real world. Why not start here? earnest look at their new home. Award-winning dining services On the hallway bulletin board in Commons, or on the Dining Services website, you can find “The Napkin Board” — a place for faculty, staff, and students to share praise, critiques, or brilliant ideas with the dining staff. Dining staff share their answers (and they make it a point to answer each one) with a stapled note or an online comment. STUDENT LIFE | 15 YOU BELONG

A national leader in community We love our location, but Bates is really everywhere engagement, Bates’ Most students, about 60 percent, study abroad at least once. And even Harward Center when you stay close to campus, our classroom extends far beyond Bates’ for Community 133 acres. Partnerships One of the oldest documented more You are Bates collegiate outing than 42,000 hours Ask anyone what makes Bates different, and you’ll hear the same answer: clubs in the country, the people. of academically and the first at a based community Striking a delicate balance between intense and fun, independent private college to yet collaborative, the faculty, staff, and students of Bates know that the work by Bates be co-ed from the power of a college lies in its community. That’s why we’ve worked so hard students each year. to make this one unique. beginning.

That’s why you matter. 600 90 60 100 + 0 acres of protected salt community- community- 100+ student 0 fraternities marshes and coastal engaged engaged clubs — created or sororities — uplands make up the research learning and run by you never had them. Bates–Morse Mountain projects, courses and your fellow Never will. Conservation Area, independent each year. students. managed by the study projects, college for research or internships and conservation. each year. Since 1855, Bates College has been dedicated to the emancipating potential of the liberal arts. Bates educates the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. With ardor and devotion — Amore ac Studio — we engage the transformative power of our differences, cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action. Preparing leaders sustained by a love of learning and a commitment to responsible stewardship of the wider world, Bates is a college for coming times. BE A ATHLETICS | 19 NESCAC: Bates is a sustaining charter member of NESCAC, along with Amherst, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, New England Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, and Williams. Athletic culture Small College That’s good — and exceptionally strong — company. Last year, more BOBCAT Athletic than 37% of Bates Athletic teams should represent the entire student body, students participated Conference in a varsity sport. and that’s why Bates doesn’t offer athletic scholarships, awarding solely need-based financial aid.

Records will be broken. Teammates will pile on top of each other. Varsity Teams Trophies will be held up in front of cheering crowds. Men’s Women’s But when it’s all over, what stays with you isn’t just the record or the win Alpine Skiing* Alpine Skiing* column. What you carry with you from this place is the passion, the work Baseball Basketball ethic, the willingness to test your limits, and the experience of believing, Basketball Cross Country if only for a moment, that there are no limits. Cross Country Field Hockey Football Golf That’s being a Bobcat. That’s a Bates education. Golf Lacrosse Lacrosse Nordic Skiing* Nordic Skiing* Rowing Rowing Soccer Soccer Softball Squash Squash Swimming & Diving Swimming & Diving Tennis Tennis Track & Field Track & Field Volleyball

*Bates’ skiing teams compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Association, which includes DI, DII, and DIII schools.

40varsity and club teams, 53All-America awards 4national seven intramural teams received by students championships in the 2016–17 in the last academic year three years THE ARTS | 21 From a student “In high school, you’d learn theory and CREATE YOUR be like, ‘Well, why does that work?’ And the answer was, ‘Because it does.’ And that’s not a great answer.” Studying music from psychological or cognitive DISCOVERY angles “just gives more context.” Maddie McLean ’17 Hood River, Ore. | Biochemistry and Music major

From music, theater, and dance to visual and literary arts, creative expression is a vital element of the Bates experience. Within the arts at The multidisciplinary arts Bates, students encounter endless opportunity to challenge creative limits In the popular course “Music and and expand their view of a rich world. Guided by our mission, Bates Mind,” students utilize psychology educates the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship. and neuroscience to dive into music Arts programs at Bates animate this ideal in programming, exhibitions, cognition in an attempt to discover performances, and, of course, curriculum. just why we understand music the way we do — and why the person Engaging academic courses, brilliant and challenging faculty, and a full sitting next to us might understand range of opportunities make the Bates arts programs some of the strongest it differently. in the country. 255 200 opportunities for opportunities for student involvement student involvement in departmental in departmental theater productions dance productions last year last year 20,000 annual visitors to the Bates Museum of Art

Bates Dance Festival For six weeks every summer, Bates hosts the internationally recognized Bates Dance Festival, allowing students Opportunity for inspiration to work with performers who are at Bates hosted more than 60 the peak of their artistry. public performances last year. PROFILES | 23 Anike Tourse ’92, Los Angeles, Calif. Anton Brown ’18, New Orleans, La. ALUMNA Major: Rhetoric. Profession: Actor, multimedia producer STUDENT Sociology

Self-discovery amid a larger community. You have a lot of freedom at Bates when it comes to making personal and academic choices. I was able to choose a topic that intrigued me for my Finding purpose in community.

thesis (the basis of which still feeds my work today), and I was pushed by Broad alumni network I came to Bates because I wanted to be my advisor to make my research into a work of real academic scholarship. Bates maintains an expansive surrounded by people who had similar network of 26,000+ alumni. Many stay intimately involved ideas of what a community was. I’ve As I reflect back on my experience, the biggest surprise is still that two of my with the college, hosting current students in internships never been to any college or university closest friends in the world are the two roommates I had at Bates. It also never and job shadow programs that has been more community- ceases to amaze me how much time my professors and the administration throughout the year. oriented and made it more of a priority gave to me as a student and how much time they continue to devote to to bring people together. students to help them realize their full potential as scholars and as people. I love that I can communicate with my professors about almost anything. Whether it be academics or things that are a little more personal,“Coming they are from a always willing to help out. very big, close-knit Bates has pushed me to realizefamily, that I knew that “It never ceases to amaze there are a lot of things that I want to me how much time my help change. Things like women’sI didn’t rights, want to professors gave to me as poverty, and police brutalitylose are all that feeling.” things that I now see I’ve always been a student.” pretty passionate about. Now I know I want to do something about them.

“Coming from a very big, close-knit family, I knew that I didn’t want to lose that feeling.” A Maine welcome Join us for AESOP, Bates’ Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program. Two upperclass student leaders welcome first-year students to life at Bates through four-day, three-night trips. These trips include everything from hiking to community engagement, and they happen all over Maine and New Hampshire. PURPOSEFUL WORK | 27 FIND YOUR Purposeful Work Internships “The more students are able PURPOSE to match their work with % their authentic interests and 327 48 Bates-funded increase in core talents, the less work feels like Purposeful Work employer network since work, and the more it simply internships since 2015 program’s inception

Work is fundamental to our lives. It helps define Internship Experiences — Through a network feels like a natural part of a who we are and who we will become while sustaining of core employers, students have access to paid satisfying and meaningful life.” us practically and providing the means to shape our lives. summer internships in a wide range of disciplines, $ + — Clayton Spencer, President from cybersecurity and art to sports management The Purposeful Work initiative at Bates serves as a 700,000 and clinical research. catalyst to help students discover the unique path in funding for summer internship awards, research fellowships, and civic engagement grants that aligns who they are with what they do, leading Interactive Curriculum & Programming —Across to lives of enriching work. Here are a few elements of disciplines, faculty design Purposeful Work Infusion Purposeful Work: Courses to incorporate conversations and reflections on purpose into their curriculum. The Purposeful Work Unplugged speaker series brings leaders from a wide range of careers to speak about finding meaning in their work and lives.

Practitioner-Taught Courses —Short Term features courses taught by practitioners outside of the Bates faculty. Courses are designed to expose students to worlds of work, to add to their practical skill set, and to expand their network. Recent subjects included journalism, music production, filmmaking, and entrepreneurship. Reading, then doing Before classes and textbooks, Informed by this philosophy, students emerge from there is the Common Read, a book Bates equipped to make intentional decisions each new student is encouraged to tackle over the summer before about their work and selves and understand how starting at Bates. Here, President Clayton Spencer leads a discussion the two relate. This isn’t just about our liberal arts of the 2017 Common Read, Bryan mission; it’s an imperative in today’s world. Stevenson’s Just Mercy.

Real world experience Purposeful Work intern Isa Moise ’19 had two urban agriculture internships in Summer 2017; one with The Farm School NYC and one with Oko Farms in Brooklyn. INVESTED FINANCIAL AID AND OUTCOMES | 29

IN YOU Outcomes Enabling students to lead lives of meaningful work is at the heart of our liberal arts mission. % % % Bates’ commitment to affordability and accessibility Invested in Our Students: 43% of our students Attracting resources demonstrates the ethical vision that inspired the college’s receive need-based grants from the college. The average 99.5 86 84 $6 million in new, of Bates graduates of Class of of students and outside grant funding founders: An education that is open to all will ensure need-based grant from Bates is $43,500. are settled in a job, 2015 graduates alumni who worked awarded to faculty over the past two years that future leaders and problem-solvers emerge from graduate school, or who applied with the Medical Committed to Completion: 86.1% of Bates students every walk of life and are able to collaborate with people internship within six were accepted Studies Committee graduate within four years. From 2012 to 2014, fewer representing diverse cultures and viewpoints. months of graduation. to law school. were accepted to than 10% of bachelor’s degree-granting institutions in med school. Here are a few things to consider when weighing your the U.S. maintained a graduation rate greater than 75%. investment in a Bates education. Building a Community: The freshman-to-sophomore retention rate for fall 2016 was 95.3%. MISSION OF ACCESS: Positioned for Success: The average federal student loan debt for Bates students who graduated in 2017 100 % was $14,570 — about half the national average. of students’ financial need is met — for all four years.

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Education Healthcare Finance/Banking Technology VISIT | 31 VISIT US

The best way to understand Bates is by spending time on campus. Take a full campus tour, schedule a campus interview, learn about admission and financial aid in detail, speak with students working diligently on their theses, and enjoy a meal in Commons.

Tours, led by current Bates students, leave from the Office of Admission and are offered most weekdays and some Saturdays. For exact times and to register, see: bates.edu/visit

Can’t visit? See our online tour at bates.edu/tour, or schedule an interview Notification of Non-Discrimination Policy with a Bates alumni representative near you. Visit us at bates.edu or find us, Bates College is committed to the principle of username “batescollege,” on any of the following: equal opportunity and providing an educational and work environment free from discrimination. The college prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, age, disability, genetic information or veteran status and other legally protected statuses in the recruitment and admission of its students, in the administration of its education policies and programs, or in the recruitment of its faculty and staff. Bates College Admission Deadlines: FMI adheres to all applicable state and federal equal opportunity laws and regulations. Early Decision I: Nov. 15 1-855-BATES55 Early Decision II: Jan. 1 [email protected] Inquiries concerning the college’s policies, Regular Decision: Jan. 1 23 Campus Avenue compliance with applicable laws, statutes, and Lewiston, ME 04240 regulations (such as Title VII, Title IX, ADA/ Section 504, and Maine Human Rights Act), and bates.edu/apply complaints may be directed to Gwen Lexow, Director of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance, [email protected] or 207-786-6445. PROFILE CLASS OF 2021

Class stats Testing Class size 510 Bates has been a national leader Acceptance rate 21.9% in the test-optional movement for three decades. In October 1984, Financial aid the Bates faculty voted to make 2017–18 total grant budget standardized testing optional $34.4 million for admission. Portion of the Class of 2021 receiving Bates grants 43% For those who submitted Class of 2021 average grant testing, the middle 50% had $43,548 score ranges of: SAT Evidence Based Reading and Geography Writing 690-730 Middle Atlantic 22% SAT Math 690-730 Midwest 6% ACT Composite 30-32 New England 44% Southeast 5% Academics Southwest and West 14% Average weighted GPA: 3.82 International 9%

Demographic Male 52% Female 48% U.S. students of color 24% First generation to college 13%