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Bates College

February 15, 2024

For the law school formerly known as Bates College of Law, see University of Houston Law Center.

Bates College (/beɪts/)[6] is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals 813 acres (329 ha). It maintains 600 acres (240 ha) of nature preserve known as the "Bates-Morse Mountain" near Campbell Island and a coastal center on Atkins Bay.

Bates College
Latin: Academia Batesina
Former name
Maine State Seminary (1855–1863)
MottoAmore Ac Studio (Latin)
Motto in English
With Ardor and Devotion by Charles Sumner
TypePrivate liberal arts college
EstablishedMarch 16, 1855; 168 years ago (1855-03-16)[nb 1]
AccreditationNECHE
Academic affiliations
Space-grant,
Annapolis Group
Endowment$418 million (2022)[1]
Budget$119.8 million (2018–19)
ChairmanJohn Gillespie
PresidentGarry Jenkins[2]
Academic staff
190 (2017–18)[3]
Undergraduates1,821 (2022)[4]
Location
Lewiston
,
Maine
,
U.S.

44°6′20″N 70°12′15″W / 44.10556°N 70.20417°W / 44.10556; -70.20417
CampusMain campus: 133 acres
Bates Mountain: 600 acres
Coastal Center: 80 acres
Total holdings: 813 acres
Colors  Garnet[5]
NicknameBobcats
Sporting affiliations
Websitewww.bates.edu

Bates provides undergraduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering and offers joint undergraduate programs. A baccalaureate college, the undergraduate program requires all students to complete a thesis before graduation, and has a privately funded research enterprise. In addition to being a part of the "Maine Big Three", Bates competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) with 31 varsity teams, and 13 club teams.

The Bates athletic program has graduated 12 Olympians and 209 All-Americans and maintains 32 varsity sports, which compete in NCAA Division III and two in Division I. Bates alumni, including faculty, include 86 Fulbright Scholars;[7] 22 Watson Fellows;[8] 5 Rhodes Scholars;[9] as well as 12 members of the U.S. Congress;[nb 2] 7 Emmy Award winners; 5 Pulitzer Prize winners;[14] and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

History edit

Main article: History of Bates College

Origins edit

 
The college's oldest academic building, Hathorn Hall was built in 1856 by Boston architect Gridley J. F. Bryant.

While attending (and later leading) the Freewill Baptist Parsonsfield Seminary, Bates founder, Oren Burbank Cheney worked for racial and gender equality, religious freedom, and temperance.[15] In 1836, Cheney enrolled in Dartmouth College (after briefly attending Brown), due to Dartmouth's significant support of the abolitionist cause against slavery.[15] After graduating, Cheney was ordained a Baptist minister and began to establish himself as an educational and religious scholar.[15] Parsonsfield mysteriously burned down in 1854, allegedly due to arson by opponents of abolition.[16][15] The event caused Cheney to advocate for the building of a new seminary in a more central part of Maine.[15] With Cheney's influence in the state legislature, the Maine State Seminary was chartered in 1855 and implemented a liberal arts and theological curriculum, making the first coeducational college in New England.[17][18] Soon after establishment several donors stepped forward to finance portions of the school, such as Seth Hathorn, who donated the first library and academic building, which was renamed Hathorn Hall.[15] The Cobb Divinity School became affiliated with the college in 1866. Four years later in 1870, Bates sponsored a college preparatory school, called the Nichols Latin School.[15] The college was affected by the financial panic of the later 1850s and required additional funding to remain operational.[15] Cheney's impact in Maine was noted by Boston business magnate Benjamin Bates who developed an interest in the college. Bates gave $100,000 in personal donations and overall contributions valued at $250,000 to the college.[19] The school was renamed Bates College in his honor in 1863 and was chartered to offer a liberal arts curriculum beyond its original theological focus.[20] Two years later the college would graduate the first woman to receive a college degree in New England, Mary Mitchel.[21] The college began instruction with a six-person faculty tasked with the teaching of moral philosophy and the classics. From its inception, Bates College served as an alternative to a more traditional and historically conservative Bowdoin College.[22][23] There is a complex relationship between the two colleges, revolving around socioeconomic class, academic quality, and collegiate athletics.[24][25]

 
The college's garnet gateways, 1906

The college, under the direction of Cheney, rejected fraternities and sororities on grounds of unwarranted exclusivity.[24] He asked his close friend and U.S. Senator Charles Sumner to create a collegiate motto for Bates and he suggested the Latin phrase amore ac studio which he translated as "with love for learning" which has been taken as "with ardor and devotion,"[26] or "through zeal and study."[27] Prior to the start of the American Civil War, Bates graduated Brevet Major Holman Melcher, who served in the Union Army in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was the first person to charge down Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.[28] The college graduated the last surviving Union general of the American Civil War, Aaron Daggett. The college's first African American student, Henry Chandler, graduated in 1874.[29] James Porter, one of General Custer's eleven officers killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was also a Bates graduate. In 1884, the college graduated the first woman to argue in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ella Haskell.[30]

20th century edit

 
Robert F. Kennedy (second from left), in front of Smith Hall, during Winter Carnival.

In 1894, George Colby Chase led Bates to increased national recognition,[31] and the college graduated one of the founding members of the Boston Red Sox, Harry Lord.[32][33] In 1920, the Bates Outing Club was founded and is one of the oldest collegiate outing clubs in the country,[34] the first at a private college to include both men and women from inception, and one of the few outing clubs that remain entirely student run.[35] The debate society of Bates College, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council, became the first college debate team in the United States to compete internationally, and is the oldest collegiate coeducational debate team in the United States.[36] In February 1920, the debate team defeated Harvard College during the national debate tournament held at Lewiston City Hall. In 1921, the college's debate team participated in the first intercontinental collegiate debate in history against the Oxford Union's debate team at the University of Oxford.[37] Oxford's first debate in the United States was against Bates in Lewiston, in September 1923.[38] In addition during this time, numerous academic buildings were constructed throughout the 1920s. In 1943, the V-12 Navy College Training Program was introduced at Bates. Bates maintained a considerable female student body and "did not suffer [lack in student enrollment due to military service involvement] as much as male-only institutions such as Bowdoin and Dartmouth."[36] During the war, a Victory Ship was named the S.S. Bates Victory, after the college.[39] It was during this time future U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy enrolled along with hundreds of other sailor-students.[11][40] The rise of social inequality and elitism at Bates is most associated with the 1940s, with an increase in racial and socioeconomic homogeneity. The college began to garner a reputation for predominately educating white students who come from upper-middle-class to affluent backgrounds.[41] The New York Times detailed the atmosphere of the college in the 1960s with the following: "the prestigious Bates College — named for Benjamin E. Bates, whose riverfront mill on Canal Street in Lewiston was once Maine's largest employer — provided an antithesis: a leafy oasis of privilege. In the 1960s, it was really difficult for most Bates students to integrate in the community because most of the people spoke French and lived a hard life."[42]

 
View from the steps of Hathorn Hall during commencement week, outlooking the Historic Quad, directly facing Lindholm House, the admissions office.

During this time the college began to compete athletically with Colby College, and in 1964, with Bowdoin created the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium.[43] In 1967, President Thomas Hedley Reynolds promoted the idea of teacher-scholars at Bates and secured the construction of numerous academic and recreational buildings.[44] In 1984, Bates became one of the first liberal arts colleges to make the SAT and ACT optional in the admission process.[45] Reynolds began the Chase Regatta in 1988, which features the President's Cup that is contested by Bates, Colby, and Bowdoin annually. In 1989, Donald West Harward became president of Bates and greatly expanded the college's overall infrastructure by building 22 new academic, residential and athletic facilities, including Pettengill Hall, the Residential Village, and the Coastal Center at Shortridge.[46][47] During the 1990s (and mid-2000s), Bates consolidated its reputation of being a "playground for the elite",[48] by educating upper-middle-class to affluent Americans,[49][50][51] which led to student protests and reforms to make the college more diverse both racially, and socioeconomically.[52][53]

21st century edit

Elaine Tuttle Hansen was elected as the first female president of Bates College and managed the second largest capital campaign ever undertaken by Bates, totaling $120 million and lead the endowment through the 2007–08 financial crisis.[54][55] The college announced her retirement in 2011, appointing Nancy Cable as interim president, to serve through June 30, 2012, while the college conducted a national search for its eighth president. In 2011, Bates made national headlines for being named the most expensive college in the U.S.,[56] which caused backlash from American academia and students as it indirectly highlighted substantial socioeconomic inequality among students.[49][50]

After a year-long search for the next president, Harvard University dean, Clayton Spencer, was appointed as Hansen's successor. Spencer assumed the presidency in 2012, and created diversity mandates, expanded student and faculty recruitment, and financial aid allocation.[57][58] While some reforms were successful, minorities at the college, typically classified as non-white and low-income students, still reported a lack of safe spaces, insensitive professors, financial insecurity, indirect racism and social elitism.[49][50] According to a 2017 article on income inequality by The New York Times,[59] 18% of Bates students came from the 1% of the American upper class (families who made about $525,000 or more per year),[60] with more than half coming from the top 5% (families who made about $110,000 or more per year).[61] According to the Portland Press Herald, Michael Bonney '80 and his wife donated $50 million to the college in support of the $300 million "Bates+You" fundraising campaign launched in May 2017. The campaign is the largest ever undertaken by the college totaling $300 million, with $168 million already raised as of May 2017.[62] In the aftermath of the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, Ron Lieber of The New York Times noted that need-aware colleges like Bates and others prioritized students who could pay full tuition in the admission process, writing that, "you can get help if you're admitted, but you might not be admitted if you need help."[63] Though it has a large endowment, Bates has continued to struggle to set a fee schedule that students can afford.[64][undue weight? – discuss] Garry Jenkins succeeded Spencer in 2023, becoming the first black president of the college.[65]

Academics edit

 
Entrance to the college's inaugural library, Coram Library.

Bates is a private baccalaureate liberal arts college that offers 36 departmental and interdisciplinary program majors and 25 secondary concentrations, and confers Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees. The college enrolls 1,792 students, 200 of whom study abroad each semester.[66] The academic year is broken up into three terms, primary, secondary, and short term, also known as the 4–4–1 academic calendar. This includes two semesters, plus a Short Term consisting of five weeks in the Spring, in which only one class is taken and in-depth coursework is commonplace.[67] Two Short Terms are required for graduation, with a maximum of three.[67]

The largest natural science academic department at Bates College is the biology department, followed by mathematics, physics, and geology. The social science academic department with the highest number of majors is its economics department, followed by psychology, politics, and history. The largest humanities academic department is the English department, followed by French and francophone studies, art and visual culture, and rhetoric. The interdisciplinary academic program at Bates with the highest number of majors is environmental studies, followed by biochemistry, neuroscience, and classical and medieval studies.[68]

Bates also offers a Liberal Arts-Engineering Dual Degree Program with Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering, Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Washington University's School of Engineering and Applied Science. The program consists of three years at Bates and a followed two years at the school of engineering resulting in a degree from Bates and the school of engineering.[69] Bates is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.[70]

The U.S. Department of Education noted the most popular majors of the 2021 graduates as:[71]

Research and Experimental Psychology (60)
Political Science and Government (58)
Econometrics and Quantitative Economics (48)
Biology/Biological Sciences (30)
History (30)
Biochemistry (26)
Environmental Studies (25)

Teaching and learning edit

 
Entrance to Roger Williams Hall.

Students at Bates take a first-year seminar, which provides a template for the rest of the four years at Bates. The student selects a specific topic offered by the college, and works together in a small class with a scholar-in-field professor of that topic, to study and critically analyze the subject. All first-year seminars place importance on writing ability, and composition in order to facilitate the process of complex and fluid ideas being put down on paper. Seminars range from constitutional analysis to mathematical theorizing to disturbance ecology. After three complete years at Bates, each student participates in a senior thesis or capstone that demonstrates expertise and overall knowledge of the Major, Minor or General Education Concentrations (GECs). The Senior Thesis is an intensive program that begins with the skills taught in the first-year program and concludes with a compiled thesis that stresses research and innovation.[72]

 
The Olin Concert Hall, houses keynotes, performances, and special debate tournaments.

A feature of a Bates education is the Honors Program which includes a tutorial-based thesis modeled after the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.[73]

Research and faculty edit

According to the U.S. National Science Foundation, the college received $1.15 million in grants, fellowships, and R&D stipends for research.[74] The college spent $1,584,000 in 2014 on research and development.[75] The Bates Student Research Fund was established for students completing independent research or capstones.[76] STEM grants are offered to students in the science, engineering, technology and mathematics fields who wish to showcase their research at professional conferences or national laboratories.[77][78][79] Independent research grants from the college can range from $300 to over $200,000 for a three-year research program depending on donor or agency.[80] The college's Harward Center is its main research entity for community-based research and offers fellowships to students.[81] According to a 2001 study, Bates College's economics department was the most cited liberal arts department in the United States.[82][83][84]

 
Dana Chemistry Hall

Bates College has been the site of landmark experiments and academic movements. In chemistry, the college has played an important role in shaping ideas about inorganic chemistry and is considered the birthplace of inorganic photochemistry as its early manifestations were started at the college by 1943 alumnus George Hammond who was later dubbed "the father of the movement".[85][86] Hammond would go on to invent Hammond's postulate, revolutionizing activation levels in chemical compounds.[87] In physics, 1974 alumnus Steven Girvin credited his time at the college as pivotal in his development of the fractional quantum Hall effect, now a pillar in Hall conductance.[88][89] During the development and production of the first nuclear weapons during World War II, two students researching nuclear chemistry at the college were hired by the United States Army Corps of Engineers as part of the first Manhattan project scientific team.[90][91]

Atop the Carnegie Science Hall sits Stephens Observatory which houses the college's high-powered 12-inch Newtonian reflecting telescope. The telescope is used for research by the college, local government agencies, and other educational institutions.[92] The Observatory is also home to an eight-inch Celestron, a six-inch Meade starfinder, and the only Coronado Solarmax II 60 in the state.[93][94]

As of 2017, Bates has a faculty of 190 and a student body of 1,780 creating a 10:1 student-faculty ratio and the average class size is about fifteen students. All tenured faculty possess the highest degree in their field.[95] Full-time professors at the college received an average total compensation of $123,066, with salaries and benefits varying from field to field and position to position, putting faculty pay in the top 17% of all public and private universities.[96]

Mount David Summit edit

The college holds the annual Mount David Summit which serves as a platform for students of all years to present undergraduate research, creative art, performance, and various other academic projects and is named after the campus' Mount David. Presentations at the summit include various discipline-centered projects, themed panel discussions, films Q & A's, as well as other activities in the Lewiston area.[97] Started in 2002, the summit is held in Pettengill Hall, and on April 1, 2016, held its 15th summit.[98][99]

Admissions edit

Standards and selectivity edit

Admissions statistics
2019 entering
class[100]Change vs.
2014[101]
Admit rate12.1%
(  −11.8)
Yield rate50.0%
(  +11.7)
Test scores middle 50%*
SAT EBRW630–750
SAT Math640–730
ACT Composite29–33
High school GPA†
Top 10%71.4
(  +2)
Top 25%89.5
(  −6)
Top 50%99.0
(  −1)
  • *Among students who chose to submit
  • †Among students whose school ranked
 
Entrance to Hathorn Hall

For the class of 2023, Bates admitted 12.1% of all applicants, the lowest-ever for the college.[102] During the 2018–19 admission rounds, Bates accepted seven transfer students from 205 applicants, yielding a 3.4% transfer acceptance rate.[103] The college has had years where no transfer applicants were accepted, such as in 2016–17, where all 170 applicants failed to gain admission.[104] In 2015, the college had a 1.6% acceptance rate for wait-listed students.[105] U.S. News & World Report classifies Bates as "most selective",[106] with The Princeton Review designated it with a "selectivity rating" of 96 out of 99.[107] The college had its highest admit rate after the 2008 financial crisis, during the 2008–09 year, accepting 30.4% of applicants.[108]

The average high school GPA for the class of 2019 was an unweighted 3.71.[105] The average SAT Score was 2135 (715 Critical Reasoning, 711 Mathematics and 709 Writing), and the average ACT score range was 28 to 32.[68] Bates has a Test Optional Policy, which gives the applicant the choice to not send in their standardized test scores.[109] Bates' non-submitting students averaged only 0.05 points lower on their collegiate grade point average.[110] The Wall Street Journal found that Bates had some of the "toughest rejection letters" in the U.S. during the late-2000s.[111] The college later apologized and issued a statement assuring that it makes an effort to "[deny] the student's application… not [reject] the student".[111]

Cost of attendance and financial aid edit

For the 2016–17 academic year, Bates charged a comprehensive price (tuition, room and board, and associated fees) of $66,550.[112] The college's tuition is the same for in-state and out-of-state students. Bates practices need-blind admission for students who are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, DACA status students, undocumented students, or who graduate from a high school within the United States, and meets all of the demonstrated need for all admitted students, including admitted international students.[113] During the 2016–17 academic year the college dispensed $37.9 million in financial aid with $4.3 million to undocumented students.[105]

Bates does not offer merit or athletic scholarships. Although Bates is often the most expensive school to attend in its athletic conference, the college covers 100% of financial need for students, and has an average financial package of $42,217. As of 2014, 44% of students utilize financial aid. Bates offers the Direct "+" Loan, Direct Student Loans, Pell Grants, Perkins Loan, Supplementary Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG), and Work-Study Program.[114]

Bates has the second lowest percentage of Pell Grant recipients in the United States, below only Fairfield University.[115]

Demographics edit

For the class of 2019, the gender demographic of the college breaks down to 49% male and 51% female. 27% of U.S. students are students of color (domestic and international) and 13% of admitted students are first generation to college.[95] The educational background for admitted students is mixed: 49% of students attended public schools and 51% attended private schools. About 90% of this incoming class (of those from schools that officially rank students) graduated in the top decile of their high school classes.[95] Bates has a 95% freshman retention rate. A significant portion of 45% of all applicants, transfer and non-transfer, are from New England.[68] About 89% of students are out-of-state, (all 50 states are represented), and the college has students from 73 countries.[116]

Rankings and reputation edit

Bates is noted as one of the Little Ivies,[121][122] along with universities such as Tufts, Bowdoin, Colby, Amherst, Middlebury, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Trinity, Wesleyan, and Williams. The college is also known as one of the Hidden Ivies, which includes much larger research universities such as Johns Hopkins and Stanford University. The 2024 annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report ranked Bates 24th overall best liberal arts college in the nation.[123] Forbes ranked Bates 39th in its 2019 national rankings of 650 U.S. colleges, universities and service academies, and 11th among liberal arts colleges.[124] The college's highest ranking on the Forbes tables was 8th in the U.S. during its 2018 listing.[125] Washington Monthly ranked Bates 17th in 2019 among 214 liberal arts colleges in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.[126]

For the 2017–18 academic year, Niche, formerly College Prowler, graded Bates with an overall grade of an 'A+'[127] noting an 'A+' for academics, 'A+' for campus food, 'A+' for technology, 'A' for administration, 'A−' for diversity, and an 'A' for campus quality.[128] During the 2019 Niche rankings, Bates was designated the 14th best liberal arts college in the country.[129] As of 2015, Alumni Factor, which measures alumni success, ranks Bates first in Maine and among the top schools nationally.[130][131] In 2018, Bates produced 23 Bates students who received Fulbright fellowships, attaining the distinction of "Fulbright Top Producer", and subsequently breaking the college's previous record, and ranking Bates first in the United States.[132][133] The Peace Corps placed Bates 22nd, out of all liberal arts colleges, for international charity involvement.[134]

In 2017, according to The Washington Post–a paper that aggregates university rankings from six different publications–the undergraduate program is the 17th best in the United States.[135] On September 20, 2016, PayScale released a report of 1,000 universities and their average graduate earning potential for the 2016–17 year. A Bates degree was worth approximately $120,000 in average salary making it the 13th highest among universities,[136] and the third highest among liberal arts in the U.S.[136]

Campus edit

 
Gomes Chapel, loosely modeled on King's College Chapel, Cambridge.

Bates is in a former mill town, Lewiston, which has a large French Canadian ethnic presence due to migration from Quebec in the 19th century. The college is known for cultural strains with the town, with townspeople describing Bates as a "leafy oasis of privilege."[137] The overall architectural design of the college can be traced through the Colonial Revival architecture movement, and has distinctive Neoclassical, Georgian, Colonial, and Gothic features. The earliest buildings of the college were directly designed by Boston architect Gridley J.F. Bryant, and subsequent buildings follow his overall architectural template.[94] Colonial restoration influence can be seen in the architecture of certain buildings, however many of the off campus houses' architecture was heavily influenced by the Victorian era.[94] Many buildings on campus share design parallels with Dartmouth College, University of Cambridge, Yale University, and Harvard University.[138][139]

 
Chase Hall, the student activity center, served as the dining hall until the construction of the Commons.

Bates has a 133-acre main campus and maintains the 600-acre Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area,[140] as well as an 80-acre Coastal Center fresh water habitat at Shortridge.[141] The eastern campus is situated around Lake Andrews, where many residential halls are located. The quad of the campus connects academic buildings, athletics arenas, and residential halls. Bates College houses over 1 million volumes of articles, papers, subscriptions, audio/video items and government articles among all three libraries and all academic buildings. The George and Helen Ladd Library houses 620,000 cataloged volumes, 2,500 serial subscriptions and 27,000 audio/video items.[68] Coram Library houses almost 200,000 volumes of articles, subscriptions and audio/video items.[142]

 
Hedge Hall, named after Isaiah Hedge, is referred to by students as the Hog in reference to a Hedge Hog and its structural resemblance to Hogwarts.

The most notable items in the library's collection include copies of the original Constitution of Maine, personal correspondence of James K. Polk and Hannibal Hamlin, original academic papers of Henry Clay, personal documents of Edmund Muskie, original printings of newspaper articles written by James G. Blaine, and selected collections of other prominent religious, political and economic figures, both in Maine, and the United States.[143][144]

The campus provides 33 Victorian Houses, 9 residential halls, and one residential village.[68][145] The college maintains 12 academic buildings with Lane Hall serving as the administration building on campus. Lane Hall houses the offices of the president, dean of the faculty, registrar, and provost, among others.[146]

Olin Arts Center edit

The Olin Arts Center maintains three teaching sound proof studios, five class rooms, five seminar rooms, ten practice rooms with pianos, and a 300-seat grand recital hall. It holds the college's Steinway concert grand piano, Disklavier, William Dowd harpsichord, and their 18th-century replica forte piano. The studios are modernized with computers, synthesizers, and various recording equipment.[147] The center houses the departments of Art and Music, and was given to Bates by the F. W. Olin Foundation in 1986.[148] The center has had numerous Artists in Residence, such as Frank Glazer, and Leyla McCalla.[149][150] The Olin Arts Center has joined with the Maine Music Society to produce musical performances throughout Maine.[151]

Museum of Art edit

 
The Bates College Museum of Art in the Olin Arts Center.
Main article: Bates College Museum of Art

Founded in 1955, the Bates College Museum of Art holds contemporary and historic pieces. In the 1930s, the college secured a private holding from the Museum of Modern Art of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night, for students participating in the 'Bates Plan'.[152] It holds 5,000 pieces and objects of contemporary domestic and international art. The museum holds over 100 original artworks, photographs and sketches from Marsden Hartley.[153][154] The MoA offers numerous lectures, artist symposiums, and workshops. The entire space is split into three components, the larger Upper Gallery, smaller Lower Gallery, and the Synergy Gallery which is primarily used for student exhibits and research. Almost 20,000 visitors are attracted to the MoA annually.[155]

Bates-Morse Mountain Area edit

Main article: Bates-Morse Mountain

This conservation area of 600 acres is available to Bates students for academic, extracurricular, and research purposes. This area is mainly salt marshes and coastal uplands. The college participates in preserving the plants, animals and natural ecosystems within this area as a part of their Community-Engaged Learning Program. Due to its overall size, the site is frequently used by other Maine schools such as Bowdoin College for their Nordic Skiing practices.[140][156]

Student life edit

 
The college's dining complex: Commons.

In 2015, the college's dining program was ranked 6th by The Princeton Review,[107] and 8th by Niche in the United States.[157] The college's dining services received the grade of 'A+' by Niche in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.[127] The college holds one main dining area and offers two floors of seating.[158] All meals and catered events on campus are served by Bates Dining Services, which makes a concentrated effort to purchase foods from suppliers and producers within the state of Maine, like Oakhurst Dairy and others.[159] The Den serves as an on-campus restaurant.[160] While on campus, enrolled students and faculty have access to round-the-clock emergency medical services and security protection.[161][162] The college also holds an annual "Harvest Dinner" during Thanksgiving that features a school-wide dining experience including a New England buffet and live musical performances.[163] Martin Luther King Day at Bates is celebrated annually with classes being canceled, and performances, events, keynote talks are held in observance. It is a day marked by keynotes from well known scholars who speak on the subjects of race, justice, and equality in America. In 2016, the college invited Jelani Cobb to speak at the college on MLK Day.[164][165] The college offers students 110 clubs and organizations on campus.[166] Among those is the competitive eating club, the Fat Cats, Ultimate Frisbee, and the student government.[166] The largest club is the Outing Club, which leads canoeing, kayaking, rafting, camping and backpacking trips throughout Maine.[167] Although Bates has since conception rejected fraternities and sororities, various social groups exist.[24]

 
The Bates Student is the oldest coeducational college newspaper in the United States.

Student media edit

The Bates Student edit

Main article: The Bates Student

Bates College's oldest operating newspaper is The Bates Student, created in 1873. It is one of the oldest continuously published college weeklies in the United States, and the oldest co-ed college weekly in the country. Alumni of the student media programs at Bates have won the Pulitzer Prize,[168] and have their later work featured on major news sources.[169][170] It circulates approximately 1,900 copies around the campus and Lewiston area. Since 1990, there has been an electronic version of the newspaper online.[171] The newspaper provides access free of charge to a searchable database of articles stretching back to its inception on its website. In 2021, the college administration requested the student newspaper to retract an article that focused on the ongoing unionization among faculty staff members and replace it with an article that also included anti-union arguments. Some students accused the administration of censorship over this issue.[172]

WRBC edit

Main article: WRBC

WRBC is the college radio station of Bates College and was first aired in 1958. Originally started as an AM station at Bates, it began with the efforts of rhetoric professor and debate coach Brooks Quimby. It is ranked by the 2015 Princeton Review as the 12th best college radio station in the United States and Canada, making it the top college radio in the New England Small College Athletic Conference.[173]

A cappella edit

There are five auditioned a cappella groups on campus. The Deansmen and the Manic Optimists are all-male, the Merminaders are all-female, and the co-ed groups are known as TakeNote and the Crosstones.[174]

Brooks Quimby Debate Council edit

Main article: Brooks Quimby Debate Council
 
Members of the Brooks Quimby Debate Council, named after Brooks Quimby, who served as a debate mentor to Robert F. Kennedy and Edmund Muskie.

The formation of the team predates the establishment of the college itself as the debate society was founded within the Maine State Seminary making it the oldest coeducational college debate society in the United States. It was headed by Bates alumnus and teacher Brooks Quimby and became the first intercollegiate international debate team in the United States.[36] The Quimby Debate Society has been noted as "America's most prestigious debating society,"[175] and the "playground of the powerful."[176] During the 1930s, the debate society was subject to 'The Quimby Institute' which pitted every debate student against Brooks Quimby himself. This is where he began to engage in heated debate with them that stressed "flawless assertions" and resulted in every error made by the student to be carefully scrutinized and teased.[36] Bates has an annual and traditional debate with Oxford, Cambridge and Dartmouth College. It competes in the American Parliamentary Debate Association domestically, and competes in the World Universities Debating Championships, internationally. The debate council was ranked 5th nationally in 2013, the year prior year ranking 9th in the world.[177][178]

 
Ivy growing on the side of Hathorn Hall, featuring respective classes' Ivy stones, in celebration of the college's Ivy Day.

Traditions edit

Main article: Bates College traditions

Ivy Day edit

The class graduates participate in an Ivy Day which installs a granite placard onto one of the academic or residential buildings on campus. They serve as a symbol of the class and their respective history both academically and socially. Some classes donate to the college, in the form of gates, facades, and door outlines, by inscribing or creating their own version of symbolic icons of the college's seal or other prominent insignia. This usually occurs on graduation day, but may occur on later dates with alumni returning to the campus. This tradition is shared with the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. On Ivy Day, members of Phi Beta Kappa are announced.[179]

Winter Carnival edit

This tradition is nearly a century old.[180] The college has held, on odd to even years, a Winter Carnival which comprises a themed four-day event that includes performances, dances, and games. Past Winter Carnivals have included "a Swiss Olympic skier swooshing down Mount David", faculty and student football games, faculty and administration skits, oversized snow sculptures, "serenading of the dormitories", and expeditions to Camden. When alumnus Edmund Muskie was governor, he participated in a torch relay from Augusta to Lewiston in celebration of the 1960 Winter Olympics.[180]

Robert F. Kennedy, with his naval classmates, built a replica of their boat back in Massachusetts out of snow in front of Smith Hall, during their carnival. This tradition is second only to Dartmouth College as the oldest of its kind in the United States.[36][181] Students are known to participate in what has been colloquially termed as the 'Dartmouth Challenge', which consists of alcohol related activities, closely related to the parent ritual Newman Day, a tradition the college started in the 1970s.[25][182] The carnival has been hosted by the Bates Outing Club since its conception.[183]

Puddle Jump edit

On the Friday of Winter Carnival, the Bates College Outing Club initiates the annual Puddle Jump. A hole is cut by a chainsaw or by the original axe used in the inaugural Puddle Jump of 1975, in Lake Andrews. Students from all class years jump into the hole, sometimes in costumes, to celebrate, "exuberance at the end of a hard winter." By mid-evening, they celebrate with donuts, cider and a cappella performances.[184]

Athletics edit

Main article: Bates Bobcats
 
A baseball game against Harvard in 1912

The college's official mascot is the bobcat, and official color is garnet. The college athletically competes in the NCAA Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), which also includes Amherst, Connecticut, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams, and "Maine Big Three" rivals Bowdoin and Colby in the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium. This is one of the oldest football rivalries in the United States. This consortium is a series of historically highly competitive football games ending in the championship game between the three schools. Bates is the holder of the winning streak, but also has the record for the biggest loss in the athletic conference.

Overall the college leads the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium in wins. Bates has won this championship a total of eleven times including 2014, 2015, and in 2016 won it again with a 24–7 win over Bowdoin, after their 21–19 home victory over Colby.[185][186]

According to U.S. Rowing, the Women's Rowing Team is ranked 1st in the New England Small College Athletic Conference, and 1st overall in NCAA Division III Rowing, as of 2016.[187] In the 2015 season, the women's rowing team was the most decorated rowing team in collegiate racing while also being the first to sweep every major rowing competition in its athletic conference in the history of NCAA Division III athletics. In 2015, the men's rowing team had the fastest ascension in rankings of any sport in its athletic conference and is the NESCAC Rowing Champion.[188] Bates has the 4th highest NESCAC title hold, is ranked 5th in its athletic conference and 15th in Division III athletics. As of 2018, the college has graduated a total of 12 Olympians, one of whom won the Olympic Gold Medal rowing for Canada at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.[189] The all-time leader of the Chase Regatta is Bates with a total of 14 composite wins, followed by Colby's 5 wins, concluding with Bowdoin's 2 wins.

The ice hockey team is the first team to win the NESCAC Club Ice Hockey Championships four times in a row.[190] As of 2016, the men's club ice hockey team is ranked 5th in the Northeast, and 25th overall in the NESCHA rankings.[191] In the winter of 2008, the college's Nordic Skiing team sent students who were the highest-ranked skiers in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association and placed 4th in the 2008 NCAA Division I Championship.[192] In April 2005, the college's athletic program was ranked top 5% of national athletics programs.[193] The Men's Squash Team won the national championships in 2015, and 2016, with the winning student being the first in the history of the athletic conference, to be named the All American all four years he played for the college.[194] The men's track field is the first team in the history of Maine to have seven consecutive wins of the state championship, a feat completed in 2016.[195] Bates maintains 31 varsity teams, and 9 club teams, including sailing, cycling, ice hockey, rugby, and water polo.[196]

Sustainability edit

 
Bates houses tree species as a precaution against disease, and to diversify the ecosystem in their quad.

In 2005, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen stated, "Bates will purchase its entire electricity supply from renewable energy sources in Maine" and secured a new contract, adding a premium of $76,000 to their energy supply.[197] Bates College signed onto the American College and University President's Climate Commitment in 2007.[198] In April 2008, the college completed its dining complex named "The Commons"[199] at a cost of approximately $24 million.[200] The complex is 60,000 square feet, certified LEED Silver, and features occupancy sensors, anti-HCFC refrigerants, natural ventilation, heat islands, and five separate dining areas with almost 70% of the walls being glass paneling.[201]

In 2009, the college was given its third $5,000 grant allocation by the Hobart Center for Foodservice Sustainability which cited Bates as "having the best sustainability program among numerous entrants nationwide".[202] In 2010, the college was named one of 15 colleges in the United States to the "Green Honor Roll", by Princeton Review.[203] Bates mitigates 99% of emissions via electrical consumption and purchases all of its energy from Maine Renewable Resources. The college expended $1.1 million of its endowment to install lighting retrofits, occupancy sensors, motor system replacements and energy-generating mechanisms.[204] Select buildings at the college are open 24/7, thus requiring extra energy, due to this the college has implemented technology that places buildings on "stand-by" mode while minimum occupancy is attained to preserve energy.[204] The practice is set to reduce the college's overall emissions levels by 5 to 10 percent. Overall, the academic buildings and residential halls are equipped with day-lighting techniques, motion sensors, and efficient heating systems.[204] Bates expended $1.5 million to implement a central plant that provides steam for heating for up to 80% of all on-campus establishments. The central plant is equipped with a modernized biomass system and a miniature back-pressure steam turbine which reduces campus electricity consumption by 5%. The college also installed a $2.7 million 900kW hyper-roterized turbine that accounts for nearly one-tenth of the campus' entire energy consumption.[204] Bates was the first food-service operation in higher education to join the Green Restaurant Association. In 2013, the environmental practices of the college's dining services were placed along with Harvard University, and Northeastern University, as the best in the United States by the Green Restaurant Association;[205] it earned three out of three stars, the only educational institution in Maine to do so.[206]

Bates maintains numerous environmental clubs and initiatives such as Green Certification, which recognizes students who commit to sustainable policies and practices,[207] Green Bike, which offers students access to bicycles for use on and off campus for free,[208] and the Bates Action Energy Movement in which students participate in "both on-campus and nationwide environmental events and engage students with discussions on climate change and other pressing ecological crises."[209] The Bates College Museum of Art offers programs such as the Green Horizons Program that showcase environmentalism in art, society, and culture.[210]

The United States Environmental Protection Agency honored Bates as a member of the Green Power Leadership Club due to the fact that 96% of energy used on campus is from renewable resources.[211] All newly developed buildings and facilities are built to LEED Silver and Gold standards.[212] The college achieved complete carbon neutrality in 2019, as a result of campus-wide conservation efforts and specific initiatives in its implementation plan.[204][213]

Administration edit

Leadership edit

 
The central administration of Bates, Lane Hall.

Bates College is governed by its central administration, headquartered in and metonymically known as "Lane Hall". The first president of the college was its founder, Oren Burbank Cheney and its president is Clayton Spencer, who took office October 26, 2012.[58] There have been eight presidents of Bates College, and one interim president.[214] The president is ex officio a member and president of the board of trustees, chief executive officer of the corporation, and principal academic of the college.[215]

There are 37 members on the Bates College board of trustees. The chairman of the board is 1980 alumnus and founder of Prospector Partners, John Gillespie.[216]

Endowment and fundraising edit

As a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, Bates is classified under section 501(c) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.[217] The endowment surpasses the national average,[218] yet has been seen as a laggard compared to its direct peers.[219] During the first half-century of the college, the endowment grew at an exponentially high rate, topping off at $1 million in 1910, as Yale University, then 207 years old, stood at $12 million.[220] "Lackluster fundraising, poor governance, and divestments" from the 1960s to 1980s, "cost Bates hundreds of millions" according to a 2019-20 The Student/BCIC academic study.[220] During the 2007–08 financial crisis and subsequent recession, the college's endowment lost 31% of market value.[221] The Bates endowment consistently outperformed peers in market returns, particularly against fellow NESCAC colleges and the Ivy League from 2010 to 2018.[220] Its low endowment-to-student ratio increases the college's fee dependency and therefore overall sticker price, frequently making Bates one of the most expensive colleges to attend in the United States.[222][223]

As of the 2016 fiscal year, the college received $28.2 million in overall donations demonstrating a 134% increase in giving since 2013, and breaking the previous 2006 record of $24.8 million. In May 2017 president Clayton Spencer announced the "Bates+You" fundraising campaign, the largest ever undertaken by the college, due to close out on $300 million.[224][225]

In 2014, members of the student advocacy group, Bates Energy Action Movement (BEAM), requested the college divest from 200 companies that held the largest fossil fuel reserves.[226] In response the college asserted the board of trustees had a fiduciary responsibility to the growth of the endowment and declined to specifically divest from the companies.[227] However, in accordance with the student's request the college did disclose its full investment strategy, and commented on the long term implications of divestment by saying:

Were we to guarantee a fossil fuel free endowment more broadly than the 200 companies, greater than half of the endowment would need to be liquidated. In either scenario, the transition would result in significant transaction costs, a long-term decrease in the endowment's performance, an increase in the endowment's risk profile, and thus a loss in annual operating income for the college.[227]

Notable alumni edit

Main article: List of Bates College people

Bates alumni have included leaders in science, religion, politics, the Peace Corps, medicine, law, education, communications, and business; and acclaimed actors, architects, artists, astronauts, engineers, human rights activists, inventors, musicians, philanthropists, and writers. As of 2015, there are 24,000 Bates College alumni.[72] The college is associated, through alumni and academic staff, with the following intellectual, scientific, and social contributions to human advancement, including laying the foundations of braille typography (Frank Haven Hall),[228][229] "The Kingdom" (Frank Sandford),[230] the American civil rights movement (Benjamin Mays),[231] basketball's fast break (Frank Keaney),[232] the Boston Red Sox (Harry Lord, Charles Small),[33][32] the fractional quantum Hall effect (Steven Girvin),[233] and organic photochemistry (George Hammond).[234]

In national and international government, alumni of the college include the 58th U.S. Secretary of State, Edmund Muskie (1936),[235] U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (1944),[11] and Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States John F. Davis (1928). As of November 2018, the college has had 12 United States Congress members among its alumni: John Swasey (1859), Daniel McGillicuddy (1881), Carroll Beedy (1903), Charles Clason (1911), Donald Partridge (1914), Edmund Muskie (1936), Frank Coffin (1940), Robert F. Kennedy (1944), Leo Ryan (1944), Bob Goodlatte (1974), Ben Cline (1994), and Jared Golden (2011).[10][12] In state government, Bates alumni have led all three political branches in Maine, graduating two Chief Justices of the Maine Supreme Court, two Maine Governors, and multiple leaders of both state houses. Notable military people include Brevet Major Holman Melcher (1862),[236] as well as Medal of Honor recipients Frederick Hayes (1861), Josiah Chase (1861), Joseph F. Warren (1862), Lewis Millet (1943),[237] Aaron Daggett (1860), and James Porter (1863).[238]

Bates alumni in business, finance, and economics include General Mills CEO Robert Kinney (1939),[239] Fidelity Fund managing director Barry Greenfield (1956),[240] Analysis Group founder Bruce Stangle (1970), Merrill Lynch CFO Joseph Willett (1973),[241] Japonica Partners CEO Paul Kazarian (1978),[242] L Catterton CEO Michael Chu (1980),[243] Cubist Pharmaceuticals CEO Michael Bonney (1980),[244] National Bank of Canada CEO Louis Vachon (1983),[245] and Affiliated Managers Group CFO Darrell Crate (1989).[246] In literature, music, journalism, television, and film, the following attended Bates: actors Jeffery Lynn (1930), John Shea (1970),[247] Maria Bamford (1990–92),[248] Bryant Gumbel (1970),[249] writers Jeffrey K. Tulis (1972),[250] Elizabeth Strout (1977),[251] Lisa Genova (1992),[252] and Brian McGrory (1984)[253] and musician Corey Harris (1991).[254] Bates counts 12 Olympian alumni: Vaughn Blanchard (1912), Harlan Holden (1913), Ray Buker (1922), Art Sager (1926), Arnold Adams (1933), Nancy Fiddler (1978), Mike Ferry (1997), Justin Freeman (1998), Andrew Byrnes (2005), Hayley Johnson (2006), Emily Bamford (2015), and Dinos Lefkaritis (2019).[255]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ There is a discrepancy with the founding of the college.
  2. ^ As of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, there have been 12 members of the United States Congress that are counted as alumni of Bates College. They are (in chronological order):[10][11]
    1. John P. Swasey (Class of 1859)
    2. Daniel J. McGillicuddy (Class of 1881)
    3. Carroll L. Beedy (Class of 1903)
    4. Charles Clason (Class of 1911)
    5. Donald Partridge (Class of 1914)
    6. Edmund Muskie (Class of 1936)
    7. Frank Coffin (Class of 1940)
    8. Robert F. Kennedy (Class of 1944)
    9. Leo Ryan (Class of 1944)
    10. Robert Goodlatte (Class of 1974)
    11. Ben Cline (Class of 1994)
    12. Jared Golden (Class of 2011)
    Only Muskie and Kennedy have served in the United States Senate, representing Maine and New York, respectively. Kennedy and Ryan attended Bates for their V-12 Naval Program and received specialized degrees in 1944.[12][13]

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Further reading edit

  • Alfred, Williams Anthony. Bates College and Its Background. (1936) Online Deposit.
  • Stuan, Thomas. The Architecture of Bates College. (2006)
  • Chase, Harry. Bates College was named after Mansfield Man. (1878)
  • Woz, Markus. Bates College – Traditionally Unconventional. (2002)
  • Bates College Archives. Bates College Catalog. (1956–2017). 2017 Catalog.
  • Bates College Archives. Maine State Seminary Records. Online Deposit.
  • Bates College Archives. Bates College Oral History Project. [permanent dead link] Online Deposit[permanent dead link].
  • Clark, Charles E. Bates Through the Years: an Illustrated History. (2005)
  • Smith, Dana. Bates College – U. S. Navy V-12 Program Collection. (1943) Online Deposit.
  • Eaton, Mabel. General Catalogue of Bates College and Cobb Divinity School. (1930)
  • Larson, Timothy. Faith by Their Works: The Progressive Tradition at Bates College. (2005)
  • Calhoun, Charles C. A Small College in Maine. p. 163. (1993)
  • Johnnett, R. F. Bates Student: A Monthly Magazine. (1878)
  • Phillips, F. Charles Bates College in Maine: Enduring Strength and Scholarship. Issue 245. (1952)
  • Dormin J. Ettrude, Edith M. Phelps, Julia Emily Johnsen. French Occupation of the Ruhr: Bates College Versus Oxford Union Society of Oxford College. (1923)
  • The Bates Student. The Voice of Bates College. (1873–2017)
  • Emeline Cheney; Burlingame, Aldrich. The story of the life and work of Oren Burbank Cheney, founder and first president of Bates College. (1907) Online Version.

External links edit

  • Official website  
  • Bates Athletics Website

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For the law school formerly known as Bates College of Law see University of Houston Law Center Bates College b eɪ t s 6 is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston Maine Anchored by the Historic Quad the campus of Bates totals 813 acres 329 ha It maintains 600 acres 240 ha of nature preserve known as the Bates Morse Mountain near Campbell Island and a coastal center on Atkins Bay Bates CollegeLatin Academia BatesinaFormer nameMaine State Seminary 1855 1863 MottoAmore Ac Studio Latin Motto in EnglishWith Ardor and Devotion by Charles SumnerTypePrivate liberal arts collegeEstablishedMarch 16 1855 168 years ago 1855 03 16 nb 1 AccreditationNECHEAcademic affiliationsSpace grant Annapolis GroupEndowment 418 million 2022 1 Budget 119 8 million 2018 19 ChairmanJohn GillespiePresidentGarry Jenkins 2 Academic staff190 2017 18 3 Undergraduates1 821 2022 4 LocationLewiston Maine U S 44 6 20 N 70 12 15 W 44 10556 N 70 20417 W 44 10556 70 20417CampusMain campus 133 acresBates Mountain 600 acresCoastal Center 80 acresTotal holdings 813 acresColors Garnet 5 NicknameBobcatsSporting affiliationsDivision III NESCACDivision I CSADivision I EISANEISAWebsitewww wbr bates wbr eduBates provides undergraduate instruction in the humanities social sciences natural sciences and engineering and offers joint undergraduate programs A baccalaureate college the undergraduate program requires all students to complete a thesis before graduation and has a privately funded research enterprise In addition to being a part of the Maine Big Three Bates competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference NESCAC with 31 varsity teams and 13 club teams The Bates athletic program has graduated 12 Olympians and 209 All Americans and maintains 32 varsity sports which compete in NCAA Division III and two in Division I Bates alumni including faculty include 86 Fulbright Scholars 7 22 Watson Fellows 8 5 Rhodes Scholars 9 as well as 12 members of the U S Congress nb 2 7 Emmy Award winners 5 Pulitzer Prize winners 14 and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies Contents 1 History 1 1 Origins 1 2 20th century 1 3 21st century 2 Academics 2 1 Teaching and learning 2 2 Research and faculty 2 3 Mount David Summit 3 Admissions 3 1 Standards and selectivity 3 2 Cost of attendance and financial aid 3 3 Demographics 3 4 Rankings and reputation 4 Campus 4 1 Olin Arts Center 4 2 Museum of Art 4 3 Bates Morse Mountain Area 5 Student life 5 1 Student media 5 1 1 The Bates Student 5 1 2 WRBC 5 2 A cappella 5 3 Brooks Quimby Debate Council 5 4 Traditions 5 4 1 Ivy Day 5 4 2 Winter Carnival 5 4 3 Puddle Jump 6 Athletics 7 Sustainability 8 Administration 8 1 Leadership 8 2 Endowment and fundraising 9 Notable alumni 10 See also 11 Notes 12 References 13 Further reading 14 External linksHistory editMain article History of Bates College Origins edit nbsp The college s oldest academic building Hathorn Hall was built in 1856 by Boston architect Gridley J F Bryant While attending and later leading the Freewill Baptist Parsonsfield Seminary Bates founder Oren Burbank Cheney worked for racial and gender equality religious freedom and temperance 15 In 1836 Cheney enrolled in Dartmouth College after briefly attending Brown due to Dartmouth s significant support of the abolitionist cause against slavery 15 After graduating Cheney was ordained a Baptist minister and began to establish himself as an educational and religious scholar 15 Parsonsfield mysteriously burned down in 1854 allegedly due to arson by opponents of abolition 16 15 The event caused Cheney to advocate for the building of a new seminary in a more central part of Maine 15 With Cheney s influence in the state legislature the Maine State Seminary was chartered in 1855 and implemented a liberal arts and theological curriculum making the first coeducational college in New England 17 18 Soon after establishment several donors stepped forward to finance portions of the school such as Seth Hathorn who donated the first library and academic building which was renamed Hathorn Hall 15 The Cobb Divinity School became affiliated with the college in 1866 Four years later in 1870 Bates sponsored a college preparatory school called the Nichols Latin School 15 The college was affected by the financial panic of the later 1850s and required additional funding to remain operational 15 Cheney s impact in Maine was noted by Boston business magnate Benjamin Bates who developed an interest in the college Bates gave 100 000 in personal donations and overall contributions valued at 250 000 to the college 19 The school was renamed Bates College in his honor in 1863 and was chartered to offer a liberal arts curriculum beyond its original theological focus 20 Two years later the college would graduate the first woman to receive a college degree in New England Mary Mitchel 21 The college began instruction with a six person faculty tasked with the teaching of moral philosophy and the classics From its inception Bates College served as an alternative to a more traditional and historically conservative Bowdoin College 22 23 There is a complex relationship between the two colleges revolving around socioeconomic class academic quality and collegiate athletics 24 25 nbsp The college s garnet gateways 1906The college under the direction of Cheney rejected fraternities and sororities on grounds of unwarranted exclusivity 24 He asked his close friend and U S Senator Charles Sumner to create a collegiate motto for Bates and he suggested the Latin phrase amore ac studio which he translated as with love for learning which has been taken as with ardor and devotion 26 or through zeal and study 27 Prior to the start of the American Civil War Bates graduated Brevet Major Holman Melcher who served in the Union Army in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment He was the first person to charge down Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg 28 The college graduated the last surviving Union general of the American Civil War Aaron Daggett The college s first African American student Henry Chandler graduated in 1874 29 James Porter one of General Custer s eleven officers killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was also a Bates graduate In 1884 the college graduated the first woman to argue in front of the U S Supreme Court Ella Haskell 30 20th century edit nbsp Robert F Kennedy second from left in front of Smith Hall during Winter Carnival In 1894 George Colby Chase led Bates to increased national recognition 31 and the college graduated one of the founding members of the Boston Red Sox Harry Lord 32 33 In 1920 the Bates Outing Club was founded and is one of the oldest collegiate outing clubs in the country 34 the first at a private college to include both men and women from inception and one of the few outing clubs that remain entirely student run 35 The debate society of Bates College the Brooks Quimby Debate Council became the first college debate team in the United States to compete internationally and is the oldest collegiate coeducational debate team in the United States 36 In February 1920 the debate team defeated Harvard College during the national debate tournament held at Lewiston City Hall In 1921 the college s debate team participated in the first intercontinental collegiate debate in history against the Oxford Union s debate team at the University of Oxford 37 Oxford s first debate in the United States was against Bates in Lewiston in September 1923 38 In addition during this time numerous academic buildings were constructed throughout the 1920s In 1943 the V 12 Navy College Training Program was introduced at Bates Bates maintained a considerable female student body and did not suffer lack in student enrollment due to military service involvement as much as male only institutions such as Bowdoin and Dartmouth 36 During the war a Victory Ship was named the S S Bates Victory after the college 39 It was during this time future U S Attorney General Robert F Kennedy enrolled along with hundreds of other sailor students 11 40 The rise of social inequality and elitism at Bates is most associated with the 1940s with an increase in racial and socioeconomic homogeneity The college began to garner a reputation for predominately educating white students who come from upper middle class to affluent backgrounds 41 The New York Times detailed the atmosphere of the college in the 1960s with the following the prestigious Bates College named for Benjamin E Bates whose riverfront mill on Canal Street in Lewiston was once Maine s largest employer provided an antithesis a leafy oasis of privilege In the 1960s it was really difficult for most Bates students to integrate in the community because most of the people spoke French and lived a hard life 42 nbsp View from the steps of Hathorn Hall during commencement week outlooking the Historic Quad directly facing Lindholm House the admissions office During this time the college began to compete athletically with Colby College and in 1964 with Bowdoin created the Colby Bates Bowdoin Consortium 43 In 1967 President Thomas Hedley Reynolds promoted the idea of teacher scholars at Bates and secured the construction of numerous academic and recreational buildings 44 In 1984 Bates became one of the first liberal arts colleges to make the SAT and ACT optional in the admission process 45 Reynolds began the Chase Regatta in 1988 which features the President s Cup that is contested by Bates Colby and Bowdoin annually In 1989 Donald West Harward became president of Bates and greatly expanded the college s overall infrastructure by building 22 new academic residential and athletic facilities including Pettengill Hall the Residential Village and the Coastal Center at Shortridge 46 47 During the 1990s and mid 2000s Bates consolidated its reputation of being a playground for the elite 48 by educating upper middle class to affluent Americans 49 50 51 which led to student protests and reforms to make the college more diverse both racially and socioeconomically 52 53 21st century edit Elaine Tuttle Hansen was elected as the first female president of Bates College and managed the second largest capital campaign ever undertaken by Bates totaling 120 million and lead the endowment through the 2007 08 financial crisis 54 55 The college announced her retirement in 2011 appointing Nancy Cable as interim president to serve through June 30 2012 while the college conducted a national search for its eighth president In 2011 Bates made national headlines for being named the most expensive college in the U S 56 which caused backlash from American academia and students as it indirectly highlighted substantial socioeconomic inequality among students 49 50 After a year long search for the next president Harvard University dean Clayton Spencer was appointed as Hansen s successor Spencer assumed the presidency in 2012 and created diversity mandates expanded student and faculty recruitment and financial aid allocation 57 58 While some reforms were successful minorities at the college typically classified as non white and low income students still reported a lack of safe spaces insensitive professors financial insecurity indirect racism and social elitism 49 50 According to a 2017 article on income inequality by The New York Times 59 18 of Bates students came from the 1 of the American upper class families who made about 525 000 or more per year 60 with more than half coming from the top 5 families who made about 110 000 or more per year 61 According to the Portland Press Herald Michael Bonney 80 and his wife donated 50 million to the college in support of the 300 million Bates You fundraising campaign launched in May 2017 The campaign is the largest ever undertaken by the college totaling 300 million with 168 million already raised as of May 2017 update 62 In the aftermath of the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal Ron Lieber of The New York Times noted that need aware colleges like Bates and others prioritized students who could pay full tuition in the admission process writing that you can get help if you re admitted but you might not be admitted if you need help 63 Though it has a large endowment Bates has continued to struggle to set a fee schedule that students can afford 64 undue weight discuss Garry Jenkins succeeded Spencer in 2023 becoming the first black president of the college 65 Academics edit nbsp Entrance to the college s inaugural library Coram Library Bates is a private baccalaureate liberal arts college that offers 36 departmental and interdisciplinary program majors and 25 secondary concentrations and confers Bachelor of Arts B A and Bachelor of Science B S degrees The college enrolls 1 792 students 200 of whom study abroad each semester 66 The academic year is broken up into three terms primary secondary and short term also known as the 4 4 1 academic calendar This includes two semesters plus a Short Term consisting of five weeks in the Spring in which only one class is taken and in depth coursework is commonplace 67 Two Short Terms are required for graduation with a maximum of three 67 The largest natural science academic department at Bates College is the biology department followed by mathematics physics and geology The social science academic department with the highest number of majors is its economics department followed by psychology politics and history The largest humanities academic department is the English department followed by French and francophone studies art and visual culture and rhetoric The interdisciplinary academic program at Bates with the highest number of majors is environmental studies followed by biochemistry neuroscience and classical and medieval studies 68 Bates also offers a Liberal Arts Engineering Dual Degree Program with Dartmouth College s Thayer School of Engineering Columbia University s School of Engineering and Applied Science and Washington University s School of Engineering and Applied Science The program consists of three years at Bates and a followed two years at the school of engineering resulting in a degree from Bates and the school of engineering 69 Bates is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education 70 The U S Department of Education noted the most popular majors of the 2021 graduates as 71 Research and Experimental Psychology 60 Political Science and Government 58 Econometrics and Quantitative Economics 48 Biology Biological Sciences 30 History 30 Biochemistry 26 Environmental Studies 25 dd Teaching and learning edit nbsp Entrance to Roger Williams Hall Students at Bates take a first year seminar which provides a template for the rest of the four years at Bates The student selects a specific topic offered by the college and works together in a small class with a scholar in field professor of that topic to study and critically analyze the subject All first year seminars place importance on writing ability and composition in order to facilitate the process of complex and fluid ideas being put down on paper Seminars range from constitutional analysis to mathematical theorizing to disturbance ecology After three complete years at Bates each student participates in a senior thesis or capstone that demonstrates expertise and overall knowledge of the Major Minor or General Education Concentrations GECs The Senior Thesis is an intensive program that begins with the skills taught in the first year program and concludes with a compiled thesis that stresses research and innovation 72 nbsp The Olin Concert Hall houses keynotes performances and special debate tournaments A feature of a Bates education is the Honors Program which includes a tutorial based thesis modeled after the universities of Oxford and Cambridge 73 Research and faculty edit According to the U S National Science Foundation the college received 1 15 million in grants fellowships and R amp D stipends for research 74 The college spent 1 584 000 in 2014 on research and development 75 The Bates Student Research Fund was established for students completing independent research or capstones 76 STEM grants are offered to students in the science engineering technology and mathematics fields who wish to showcase their research at professional conferences or national laboratories 77 78 79 Independent research grants from the college can range from 300 to over 200 000 for a three year research program depending on donor or agency 80 The college s Harward Center is its main research entity for community based research and offers fellowships to students 81 According to a 2001 study Bates College s economics department was the most cited liberal arts department in the United States 82 83 84 nbsp Dana Chemistry HallBates College has been the site of landmark experiments and academic movements In chemistry the college has played an important role in shaping ideas about inorganic chemistry and is considered the birthplace of inorganic photochemistry as its early manifestations were started at the college by 1943 alumnus George Hammond who was later dubbed the father of the movement 85 86 Hammond would go on to invent Hammond s postulate revolutionizing activation levels in chemical compounds 87 In physics 1974 alumnus Steven Girvin credited his time at the college as pivotal in his development of the fractional quantum Hall effect now a pillar in Hall conductance 88 89 During the development and production of the first nuclear weapons during World War II two students researching nuclear chemistry at the college were hired by the United States Army Corps of Engineers as part of the first Manhattan project scientific team 90 91 Atop the Carnegie Science Hall sits Stephens Observatory which houses the college s high powered 12 inch Newtonian reflecting telescope The telescope is used for research by the college local government agencies and other educational institutions 92 The Observatory is also home to an eight inch Celestron a six inch Meade starfinder and the only Coronado Solarmax II 60 in the state 93 94 As of 2017 update Bates has a faculty of 190 and a student body of 1 780 creating a 10 1 student faculty ratio and the average class size is about fifteen students All tenured faculty possess the highest degree in their field 95 Full time professors at the college received an average total compensation of 123 066 with salaries and benefits varying from field to field and position to position putting faculty pay in the top 17 of all public and private universities 96 Mount David Summit edit The college holds the annual Mount David Summit which serves as a platform for students of all years to present undergraduate research creative art performance and various other academic projects and is named after the campus Mount David Presentations at the summit include various discipline centered projects themed panel discussions films Q amp A s as well as other activities in the Lewiston area 97 Started in 2002 the summit is held in Pettengill Hall and on April 1 2016 held its 15th summit 98 99 Admissions editStandards and selectivity edit Admissions statistics2019 enteringclass 100 Change vs 2014 101 Admit rate12 1 nbsp 11 8 Yield rate50 0 nbsp 11 7 Test scores middle 50 SAT EBRW630 750SAT Math640 730ACT Composite29 33High school GPA Top 10 71 4 nbsp 2 Top 25 89 5 nbsp 6 Top 50 99 0 nbsp 1 Among students who chose to submit Among students whose school ranked nbsp Entrance to Hathorn HallFor the class of 2023 Bates admitted 12 1 of all applicants the lowest ever for the college 102 During the 2018 19 admission rounds Bates accepted seven transfer students from 205 applicants yielding a 3 4 transfer acceptance rate 103 The college has had years where no transfer applicants were accepted such as in 2016 17 where all 170 applicants failed to gain admission 104 In 2015 the college had a 1 6 acceptance rate for wait listed students 105 U S News amp World Report classifies Bates as most selective 106 with The Princeton Review designated it with a selectivity rating of 96 out of 99 107 The college had its highest admit rate after the 2008 financial crisis during the 2008 09 year accepting 30 4 of applicants 108 The average high school GPA for the class of 2019 was an unweighted 3 71 105 The average SAT Score was 2135 715 Critical Reasoning 711 Mathematics and 709 Writing and the average ACT score range was 28 to 32 68 Bates has a Test Optional Policy which gives the applicant the choice to not send in their standardized test scores 109 Bates non submitting students averaged only 0 05 points lower on their collegiate grade point average 110 The Wall Street Journal found that Bates had some of the toughest rejection letters in the U S during the late 2000s 111 The college later apologized and issued a statement assuring that it makes an effort to deny the student s application not reject the student 111 Cost of attendance and financial aid edit For the 2016 17 academic year Bates charged a comprehensive price tuition room and board and associated fees of 66 550 112 The college s tuition is the same for in state and out of state students Bates practices need blind admission for students who are U S citizens permanent residents DACA status students undocumented students or who graduate from a high school within the United States and meets all of the demonstrated need for all admitted students including admitted international students 113 During the 2016 17 academic year the college dispensed 37 9 million in financial aid with 4 3 million to undocumented students 105 Bates does not offer merit or athletic scholarships Although Bates is often the most expensive school to attend in its athletic conference the college covers 100 of financial need for students and has an average financial package of 42 217 As of 2014 update 44 of students utilize financial aid Bates offers the Direct Loan Direct Student Loans Pell Grants Perkins Loan Supplementary Educational Opportunity Grants SEOG and Work Study Program 114 Bates has the second lowest percentage of Pell Grant recipients in the United States below only Fairfield University 115 Demographics edit For the class of 2019 the gender demographic of the college breaks down to 49 male and 51 female 27 of U S students are students of color domestic and international and 13 of admitted students are first generation to college 95 The educational background for admitted students is mixed 49 of students attended public schools and 51 attended private schools About 90 of this incoming class of those from schools that officially rank students graduated in the top decile of their high school classes 95 Bates has a 95 freshman retention rate A significant portion of 45 of all applicants transfer and non transfer are from New England 68 About 89 of students are out of state all 50 states are represented and the college has students from 73 countries 116 Rankings and reputation edit Academic rankingsLiberal arts collegesU S News amp World Report 117 24Washington Monthly 118 49NationalForbes 119 127THE WSJ 120 64Bates is noted as one of the Little Ivies 121 122 along with universities such as Tufts Bowdoin Colby Amherst Middlebury Connecticut College Hamilton Trinity Wesleyan and Williams The college is also known as one of the Hidden Ivies which includes much larger research universities such as Johns Hopkins and Stanford University The 2024 annual ranking by U S News amp World Report ranked Bates 24th overall best liberal arts college in the nation 123 Forbes ranked Bates 39th in its 2019 national rankings of 650 U S colleges universities and service academies and 11th among liberal arts colleges 124 The college s highest ranking on the Forbes tables was 8th in the U S during its 2018 listing 125 Washington Monthly ranked Bates 17th in 2019 among 214 liberal arts colleges in the U S based on its contribution to the public good as measured by social mobility research and promoting public service 126 For the 2017 18 academic year Niche formerly College Prowler graded Bates with an overall grade of an A 127 noting an A for academics A for campus food A for technology A for administration A for diversity and an A for campus quality 128 During the 2019 Niche rankings Bates was designated the 14th best liberal arts college in the country 129 As of 2015 update Alumni Factor which measures alumni success ranks Bates first in Maine and among the top schools nationally 130 131 In 2018 Bates produced 23 Bates students who received Fulbright fellowships attaining the distinction of Fulbright Top Producer and subsequently breaking the college s previous record and ranking Bates first in the United States 132 133 The Peace Corps placed Bates 22nd out of all liberal arts colleges for international charity involvement 134 In 2017 according to The Washington Post a paper that aggregates university rankings from six different publications the undergraduate program is the 17th best in the United States 135 On September 20 2016 PayScale released a report of 1 000 universities and their average graduate earning potential for the 2016 17 year A Bates degree was worth approximately 120 000 in average salary making it the 13th highest among universities 136 and the third highest among liberal arts in the U S 136 Campus edit nbsp Gomes Chapel loosely modeled on King s College Chapel Cambridge Bates is in a former mill town Lewiston which has a large French Canadian ethnic presence due to migration from Quebec in the 19th century The college is known for cultural strains with the town with townspeople describing Bates as a leafy oasis of privilege 137 The overall architectural design of the college can be traced through the Colonial Revival architecture movement and has distinctive Neoclassical Georgian Colonial and Gothic features The earliest buildings of the college were directly designed by Boston architect Gridley J F Bryant and subsequent buildings follow his overall architectural template 94 Colonial restoration influence can be seen in the architecture of certain buildings however many of the off campus houses architecture was heavily influenced by the Victorian era 94 Many buildings on campus share design parallels with Dartmouth College University of Cambridge Yale University and Harvard University 138 139 nbsp Chase Hall the student activity center served as the dining hall until the construction of the Commons Bates has a 133 acre main campus and maintains the 600 acre Bates Morse Mountain Conservation Area 140 as well as an 80 acre Coastal Center fresh water habitat at Shortridge 141 The eastern campus is situated around Lake Andrews where many residential halls are located The quad of the campus connects academic buildings athletics arenas and residential halls Bates College houses over 1 million volumes of articles papers subscriptions audio video items and government articles among all three libraries and all academic buildings The George and Helen Ladd Library houses 620 000 cataloged volumes 2 500 serial subscriptions and 27 000 audio video items 68 Coram Library houses almost 200 000 volumes of articles subscriptions and audio video items 142 nbsp Hedge Hall named after Isaiah Hedge is referred to by students as the Hog in reference to a Hedge Hog and its structural resemblance to Hogwarts The most notable items in the library s collection include copies of the original Constitution of Maine personal correspondence of James K Polk and Hannibal Hamlin original academic papers of Henry Clay personal documents of Edmund Muskie original printings of newspaper articles written by James G Blaine and selected collections of other prominent religious political and economic figures both in Maine and the United States 143 144 The campus provides 33 Victorian Houses 9 residential halls and one residential village 68 145 The college maintains 12 academic buildings with Lane Hall serving as the administration building on campus Lane Hall houses the offices of the president dean of the faculty registrar and provost among others 146 Olin Arts Center edit The Olin Arts Center maintains three teaching sound proof studios five class rooms five seminar rooms ten practice rooms with pianos and a 300 seat grand recital hall It holds the college s Steinway concert grand piano Disklavier William Dowd harpsichord and their 18th century replica forte piano The studios are modernized with computers synthesizers and various recording equipment 147 The center houses the departments of Art and Music and was given to Bates by the F W Olin Foundation in 1986 148 The center has had numerous Artists in Residence such as Frank Glazer and Leyla McCalla 149 150 The Olin Arts Center has joined with the Maine Music Society to produce musical performances throughout Maine 151 Museum of Art edit nbsp The Bates College Museum of Art in the Olin Arts Center Main article Bates College Museum of Art Founded in 1955 the Bates College Museum of Art holds contemporary and historic pieces In the 1930s the college secured a private holding from the Museum of Modern Art of Vincent van Gogh s Starry Night for students participating in the Bates Plan 152 It holds 5 000 pieces and objects of contemporary domestic and international art The museum holds over 100 original artworks photographs and sketches from Marsden Hartley 153 154 The MoA offers numerous lectures artist symposiums and workshops The entire space is split into three components the larger Upper Gallery smaller Lower Gallery and the Synergy Gallery which is primarily used for student exhibits and research Almost 20 000 visitors are attracted to the MoA annually 155 Bates Morse Mountain Area edit Main article Bates Morse MountainThis conservation area of 600 acres is available to Bates students for academic extracurricular and research purposes This area is mainly salt marshes and coastal uplands The college participates in preserving the plants animals and natural ecosystems within this area as a part of their Community Engaged Learning Program Due to its overall size the site is frequently used by other Maine schools such as Bowdoin College for their Nordic Skiing practices 140 156 Student life edit nbsp The college s dining complex Commons In 2015 the college s dining program was ranked 6th by The Princeton Review 107 and 8th by Niche in the United States 157 The college s dining services received the grade of A by Niche in 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 and 2017 127 The college holds one main dining area and offers two floors of seating 158 All meals and catered events on campus are served by Bates Dining Services which makes a concentrated effort to purchase foods from suppliers and producers within the state of Maine like Oakhurst Dairy and others 159 The Den serves as an on campus restaurant 160 While on campus enrolled students and faculty have access to round the clock emergency medical services and security protection 161 162 The college also holds an annual Harvest Dinner during Thanksgiving that features a school wide dining experience including a New England buffet and live musical performances 163 Martin Luther King Day at Bates is celebrated annually with classes being canceled and performances events keynote talks are held in observance It is a day marked by keynotes from well known scholars who speak on the subjects of race justice and equality in America In 2016 the college invited Jelani Cobb to speak at the college on MLK Day 164 165 The college offers students 110 clubs and organizations on campus 166 Among those is the competitive eating club the Fat Cats Ultimate Frisbee and the student government 166 The largest club is the Outing Club which leads canoeing kayaking rafting camping and backpacking trips throughout Maine 167 Although Bates has since conception rejected fraternities and sororities various social groups exist 24 nbsp The Bates Student is the oldest coeducational college newspaper in the United States Student media edit The Bates Student edit Main article The Bates Student Bates College s oldest operating newspaper is The Bates Student created in 1873 It is one of the oldest continuously published college weeklies in the United States and the oldest co ed college weekly in the country Alumni of the student media programs at Bates have won the Pulitzer Prize 168 and have their later work featured on major news sources 169 170 It circulates approximately 1 900 copies around the campus and Lewiston area Since 1990 there has been an electronic version of the newspaper online 171 The newspaper provides access free of charge to a searchable database of articles stretching back to its inception on its website In 2021 the college administration requested the student newspaper to retract an article that focused on the ongoing unionization among faculty staff members and replace it with an article that also included anti union arguments Some students accused the administration of censorship over this issue 172 WRBC edit Main article WRBCWRBC is the college radio station of Bates College and was first aired in 1958 Originally started as an AM station at Bates it began with the efforts of rhetoric professor and debate coach Brooks Quimby It is ranked by the 2015 Princeton Review as the 12th best college radio station in the United States and Canada making it the top college radio in the New England Small College Athletic Conference 173 A cappella edit There are five auditioned a cappella groups on campus The Deansmen and the Manic Optimists are all male the Merminaders are all female and the co ed groups are known as TakeNote and the Crosstones 174 Brooks Quimby Debate Council edit Main article Brooks Quimby Debate Council nbsp Members of the Brooks Quimby Debate Council named after Brooks Quimby who served as a debate mentor to Robert F Kennedy and Edmund Muskie The formation of the team predates the establishment of the college itself as the debate society was founded within the Maine State Seminary making it the oldest coeducational college debate society in the United States It was headed by Bates alumnus and teacher Brooks Quimby and became the first intercollegiate international debate team in the United States 36 The Quimby Debate Society has been noted as America s most prestigious debating society 175 and the playground of the powerful 176 During the 1930s the debate society was subject to The Quimby Institute which pitted every debate student against Brooks Quimby himself This is where he began to engage in heated debate with them that stressed flawless assertions and resulted in every error made by the student to be carefully scrutinized and teased 36 Bates has an annual and traditional debate with Oxford Cambridge and Dartmouth College It competes in the American Parliamentary Debate Association domestically and competes in the World Universities Debating Championships internationally The debate council was ranked 5th nationally in 2013 the year prior year ranking 9th in the world 177 178 nbsp Ivy growing on the side of Hathorn Hall featuring respective classes Ivy stones in celebration of the college s Ivy Day Traditions edit Main article Bates College traditions Ivy Day edit The class graduates participate in an Ivy Day which installs a granite placard onto one of the academic or residential buildings on campus They serve as a symbol of the class and their respective history both academically and socially Some classes donate to the college in the form of gates facades and door outlines by inscribing or creating their own version of symbolic icons of the college s seal or other prominent insignia This usually occurs on graduation day but may occur on later dates with alumni returning to the campus This tradition is shared with the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University On Ivy Day members of Phi Beta Kappa are announced 179 Winter Carnival edit This tradition is nearly a century old 180 The college has held on odd to even years a Winter Carnival which comprises a themed four day event that includes performances dances and games Past Winter Carnivals have included a Swiss Olympic skier swooshing down Mount David faculty and student football games faculty and administration skits oversized snow sculptures serenading of the dormitories and expeditions to Camden When alumnus Edmund Muskie was governor he participated in a torch relay from Augusta to Lewiston in celebration of the 1960 Winter Olympics 180 Robert F Kennedy with his naval classmates built a replica of their boat back in Massachusetts out of snow in front of Smith Hall during their carnival This tradition is second only to Dartmouth College as the oldest of its kind in the United States 36 181 Students are known to participate in what has been colloquially termed as the Dartmouth Challenge which consists of alcohol related activities closely related to the parent ritual Newman Day a tradition the college started in the 1970s 25 182 The carnival has been hosted by the Bates Outing Club since its conception 183 Puddle Jump edit On the Friday of Winter Carnival the Bates College Outing Club initiates the annual Puddle Jump A hole is cut by a chainsaw or by the original axe used in the inaugural Puddle Jump of 1975 in Lake Andrews Students from all class years jump into the hole sometimes in costumes to celebrate exuberance at the end of a hard winter By mid evening they celebrate with donuts cider and a cappella performances 184 Athletics editMain article Bates Bobcats nbsp A baseball game against Harvard in 1912The college s official mascot is the bobcat and official color is garnet The college athletically competes in the NCAA Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference NESCAC which also includes Amherst Connecticut Hamilton Middlebury Trinity Tufts Wesleyan Williams and Maine Big Three rivals Bowdoin and Colby in the Colby Bates Bowdoin Consortium This is one of the oldest football rivalries in the United States This consortium is a series of historically highly competitive football games ending in the championship game between the three schools Bates is the holder of the winning streak but also has the record for the biggest loss in the athletic conference Overall the college leads the Colby Bates Bowdoin Consortium in wins Bates has won this championship a total of eleven times including 2014 2015 and in 2016 won it again with a 24 7 win over Bowdoin after their 21 19 home victory over Colby 185 186 According to U S Rowing the Women s Rowing Team is ranked 1st in the New England Small College Athletic Conference and 1st overall in NCAA Division III Rowing as of 2016 update 187 In the 2015 season the women s rowing team was the most decorated rowing team in collegiate racing while also being the first to sweep every major rowing competition in its athletic conference in the history of NCAA Division III athletics In 2015 the men s rowing team had the fastest ascension in rankings of any sport in its athletic conference and is the NESCAC Rowing Champion 188 Bates has the 4th highest NESCAC title hold is ranked 5th in its athletic conference and 15th in Division III athletics As of 2018 update the college has graduated a total of 12 Olympians one of whom won the Olympic Gold Medal rowing for Canada at the 2008 Beijing Olympics 189 The all time leader of the Chase Regatta is Bates with a total of 14 composite wins followed by Colby s 5 wins concluding with Bowdoin s 2 wins The ice hockey team is the first team to win the NESCAC Club Ice Hockey Championships four times in a row 190 As of 2016 update the men s club ice hockey team is ranked 5th in the Northeast and 25th overall in the NESCHA rankings 191 In the winter of 2008 the college s Nordic Skiing team sent students who were the highest ranked skiers in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association and placed 4th in the 2008 NCAA Division I Championship 192 In April 2005 the college s athletic program was ranked top 5 of national athletics programs 193 The Men s Squash Team won the national championships in 2015 and 2016 with the winning student being the first in the history of the athletic conference to be named the All American all four years he played for the college 194 The men s track field is the first team in the history of Maine to have seven consecutive wins of the state championship a feat completed in 2016 195 Bates maintains 31 varsity teams and 9 club teams including sailing cycling ice hockey rugby and water polo 196 Sustainability edit nbsp Bates houses tree species as a precaution against disease and to diversify the ecosystem in their quad In 2005 President Elaine Tuttle Hansen stated Bates will purchase its entire electricity supply from renewable energy sources in Maine and secured a new contract adding a premium of 76 000 to their energy supply 197 Bates College signed onto the American College and University President s Climate Commitment in 2007 198 In April 2008 the college completed its dining complex named The Commons 199 at a cost of approximately 24 million 200 The complex is 60 000 square feet certified LEED Silver and features occupancy sensors anti HCFC refrigerants natural ventilation heat islands and five separate dining areas with almost 70 of the walls being glass paneling 201 In 2009 the college was given its third 5 000 grant allocation by the Hobart Center for Foodservice Sustainability which cited Bates as having the best sustainability program among numerous entrants nationwide 202 In 2010 the college was named one of 15 colleges in the United States to the Green Honor Roll by Princeton Review 203 Bates mitigates 99 of emissions via electrical consumption and purchases all of its energy from Maine Renewable Resources The college expended 1 1 million of its endowment to install lighting retrofits occupancy sensors motor system replacements and energy generating mechanisms 204 Select buildings at the college are open 24 7 thus requiring extra energy due to this the college has implemented technology that places buildings on stand by mode while minimum occupancy is attained to preserve energy 204 The practice is set to reduce the college s overall emissions levels by 5 to 10 percent Overall the academic buildings and residential halls are equipped with day lighting techniques motion sensors and efficient heating systems 204 Bates expended 1 5 million to implement a central plant that provides steam for heating for up to 80 of all on campus establishments The central plant is equipped with a modernized biomass system and a miniature back pressure steam turbine which reduces campus electricity consumption by 5 The college also installed a 2 7 million 900kW hyper roterized turbine that accounts for nearly one tenth of the campus entire energy consumption 204 Bates was the first food service operation in higher education to join the Green Restaurant Association In 2013 the environmental practices of the college s dining services were placed along with Harvard University and Northeastern University as the best in the United States by the Green Restaurant Association 205 it earned three out of three stars the only educational institution in Maine to do so 206 Bates maintains numerous environmental clubs and initiatives such as Green Certification which recognizes students who commit to sustainable policies and practices 207 Green Bike which offers students access to bicycles for use on and off campus for free 208 and the Bates Action Energy Movement in which students participate in both on campus and nationwide environmental events and engage students with discussions on climate change and other pressing ecological crises 209 The Bates College Museum of Art offers programs such as the Green Horizons Program that showcase environmentalism in art society and culture 210 The United States Environmental Protection Agency honored Bates as a member of the Green Power Leadership Club due to the fact that 96 of energy used on campus is from renewable resources 211 All newly developed buildings and facilities are built to LEED Silver and Gold standards 212 The college achieved complete carbon neutrality in 2019 as a result of campus wide conservation efforts and specific initiatives in its implementation plan 204 213 Administration editLeadership edit nbsp The central administration of Bates Lane Hall Bates College is governed by its central administration headquartered in and metonymically known as Lane Hall The first president of the college was its founder Oren Burbank Cheney and its president is Clayton Spencer who took office October 26 2012 58 There have been eight presidents of Bates College and one interim president 214 The president is ex officio a member and president of the board of trustees chief executive officer of the corporation and principal academic of the college 215 There are 37 members on the Bates College board of trustees The chairman of the board is 1980 alumnus and founder of Prospector Partners John Gillespie 216 Endowment and fundraising edit As a tax exempt nonprofit organization Bates is classified under section 501 c of the U S Internal Revenue Code 217 The endowment surpasses the national average 218 yet has been seen as a laggard compared to its direct peers 219 During the first half century of the college the endowment grew at an exponentially high rate topping off at 1 million in 1910 as Yale University then 207 years old stood at 12 million 220 Lackluster fundraising poor governance and divestments from the 1960s to 1980s cost Bates hundreds of millions according to a 2019 20 The Student BCIC academic study 220 During the 2007 08 financial crisis and subsequent recession the college s endowment lost 31 of market value 221 The Bates endowment consistently outperformed peers in market returns particularly against fellow NESCAC colleges and the Ivy League from 2010 to 2018 220 Its low endowment to student ratio increases the college s fee dependency and therefore overall sticker price frequently making Bates one of the most expensive colleges to attend in the United States 222 223 As of the 2016 fiscal year the college received 28 2 million in overall donations demonstrating a 134 increase in giving since 2013 and breaking the previous 2006 record of 24 8 million In May 2017 president Clayton Spencer announced the Bates You fundraising campaign the largest ever undertaken by the college due to close out on 300 million 224 225 In 2014 members of the student advocacy group Bates Energy Action Movement BEAM requested the college divest from 200 companies that held the largest fossil fuel reserves 226 In response the college asserted the board of trustees had a fiduciary responsibility to the growth of the endowment and declined to specifically divest from the companies 227 However in accordance with the student s request the college did disclose its full investment strategy and commented on the long term implications of divestment by saying Were we to guarantee a fossil fuel free endowment more broadly than the 200 companies greater than half of the endowment would need to be liquidated In either scenario the transition would result in significant transaction costs a long term decrease in the endowment s performance an increase in the endowment s risk profile and thus a loss in annual operating income for the college 227 Notable alumni editMain article List of Bates College people nbsp Bryant Gumbel journalist and sportswriter nbsp Holman Melcher American military officer during the American Civil War nbsp Frank Sandford Christian cult leader nbsp Benjamin Mays civil rights leader nbsp E Robert Kinney former CEO of General Mills nbsp Jared Golden U S Congressman nbsp Edmund Muskie former U S Secretary of State and U S Senator nbsp George Hammond scientist and theoretical chemist nbsp Robert F Kennedy American politician and lawyerBates alumni have included leaders in science religion politics the Peace Corps medicine law education communications and business and acclaimed actors architects artists astronauts engineers human rights activists inventors musicians philanthropists and writers As of 2015 update there are 24 000 Bates College alumni 72 The college is associated through alumni and academic staff with the following intellectual scientific and social contributions to human advancement including laying the foundations of braille typography Frank Haven Hall 228 229 The Kingdom Frank Sandford 230 the American civil rights movement Benjamin Mays 231 basketball s fast break Frank Keaney 232 the Boston Red Sox Harry Lord Charles Small 33 32 the fractional quantum Hall effect Steven Girvin 233 and organic photochemistry George Hammond 234 In national and international government alumni of the college include the 58th U S Secretary of State Edmund Muskie 1936 235 U S Attorney General Robert F Kennedy 1944 11 and Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States John F Davis 1928 As of November 2018 the college has had 12 United States Congress members among its alumni John Swasey 1859 Daniel McGillicuddy 1881 Carroll Beedy 1903 Charles Clason 1911 Donald Partridge 1914 Edmund Muskie 1936 Frank Coffin 1940 Robert F Kennedy 1944 Leo Ryan 1944 Bob Goodlatte 1974 Ben Cline 1994 and Jared Golden 2011 10 12 In state government Bates alumni have led all three political branches in Maine graduating two Chief Justices of the Maine Supreme Court two Maine Governors and multiple leaders of both state houses Notable military people include Brevet Major Holman Melcher 1862 236 as well as Medal of Honor recipients Frederick Hayes 1861 Josiah Chase 1861 Joseph F Warren 1862 Lewis Millet 1943 237 Aaron Daggett 1860 and James Porter 1863 238 Bates alumni in business finance and economics include General Mills CEO Robert Kinney 1939 239 Fidelity Fund managing director Barry Greenfield 1956 240 Analysis Group founder Bruce Stangle 1970 Merrill Lynch CFO Joseph Willett 1973 241 Japonica Partners CEO Paul Kazarian 1978 242 L Catterton CEO Michael Chu 1980 243 Cubist Pharmaceuticals CEO Michael Bonney 1980 244 National Bank of Canada CEO Louis Vachon 1983 245 and Affiliated Managers Group CFO Darrell Crate 1989 246 In literature music journalism television and film the following attended Bates actors Jeffery Lynn 1930 John Shea 1970 247 Maria Bamford 1990 92 248 Bryant Gumbel 1970 249 writers Jeffrey K Tulis 1972 250 Elizabeth Strout 1977 251 Lisa Genova 1992 252 and Brian McGrory 1984 253 and musician Corey Harris 1991 254 Bates counts 12 Olympian alumni Vaughn Blanchard 1912 Harlan Holden 1913 Ray Buker 1922 Art Sager 1926 Arnold Adams 1933 Nancy Fiddler 1978 Mike Ferry 1997 Justin Freeman 1998 Andrew Byrnes 2005 Hayley Johnson 2006 Emily Bamford 2015 and Dinos Lefkaritis 2019 255 See also edit nbsp New England portal nbsp United States portal nbsp Education portalNew England Small College Athletic Conference List of 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