Bates College

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While attending and leading the Freewill Baptist Parsonsfield Seminary, Bates founder, Oren Burbank Cheney worked on various racial and gender equality, religious freedom, and temperance issues.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/storyoflifeworko00chen#page/32/mode/2up|title=The story of the life and work of Oren B. Cheney, founder and first president of Bates college|last=Cheney|first=Emeline|website=archive.org|access-date=August 11, 2018}} In 1836, Cheney enrolled in Dartmouth College, due to the school's significant support of the abolitionist cause against slavery. After graduating, Cheney was ordained a Baptist minister and began to establish himself as an educational and religious scholar. Parsonsfield mysteriously burned down in 1854, allegedly due to arson by opponents of abolition.{{Cite book|title=Bates Student: A Monthly Magazine|last=Johnnett|first=R. F.|publisher=Bates College|year=1878 |location=Edmund Muskie Archives, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine|pages=Multi-source; pp. 30|quote=...the bell tower flickered in flames while the children ran from its pillar-brick walls...screams awoke the night...}} The event caused Cheney to advocate for a new seminary in a more central part of Maine. 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/bates-college/|title=Bates College|website=Forbes|access-date=2016-06-16|quote=[Bates College] was the first coeducational college in New England.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/history/progressive-tradition/chapter-3/|title=Chapter 3 {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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. 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. The college was affected by the financial panic of the later 1850s and required additional funding to remain operational. 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.{{Cite book |last=Johnnett |first=R. F. |title=Bates Student: A Monthly Magazine |publisher=Bates College |year=1878 |location=Edmund Muskie Archives, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine |pages=Multi-source; pp. 2}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/bates-greats/oren-b-cheney/|title=Oren B. Cheney {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College|website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |language=en|access-date=August 11, 2018}} Two years later the college would graduate the first woman to receive a college degree in New England, Mary Mitchel.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/bates-greats/mary-w-mitchell/|title=Mary W. Mitchell {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{Cite book|title=A Small College in Maine|last=Calhoun|first=Charles C|publisher=Bowdoin College|year=1993|location=Hubbard Hall, Bowdoin College|page=163}}{{Cite book|title=General Catalogue of Bates College and Cobb Divinity School|last=Eaton|first=Mabel|publisher=Bates College|year=1930|location=Coram Library, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.|pages=34, 36, 42}} There is a complex relationship between the two colleges, revolving around socioeconomic class, academic quality, and collegiate athletics.{{Cite book|title=Traditionally Unconventional|last=Woz|first=Markus|publisher=Bates College|year=2002|location=Ladd Library, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine|page=6}}

File:1906 Garnet Gateway.jpgThe college, under the direction of Cheney, rejected fraternities and sororities on grounds of unwarranted exclusivity.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/history/progressive-tradition/chapter-4/|title=Chapter 4 {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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,"{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/communications/brand-identity-guide/|title=Brand Identity Guide {{!}} Communications {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2015-05-05 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} or "through zeal and study."{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/history/progressive-tradition/chapter-1/|title=Chapter 1 {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.gdg.org/Research/People/Chamberlain/flash.html|title=Who Saves Little Round Top?|last=Morgan|first=James|access-date=August 11, 2018|quote=Number four: Col. Chamberlain did not lead the charge. Lt. Holman Melcher was the first officer down the slope.}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/bates-greats/henry-chandler/|title=Henry Chandler {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/progressivemenof01bowe#page/472/mode/2up|title=Progressive men of the state of Montana |website=archive.org|page=472|access-date=August 11, 2018|publisher=Chicago : A. W. Bowen & Co.}}

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In 1894, George Colby Chase led Bates to increased national recognition,{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/bates-greats/george-c-chase/|title=George C. Chase {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} and the college graduated one of the founding members of the Boston Red Sox, Harry Lord.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/history/|title=A Brief History {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/7ef30196|title=Harry Lord {{!}} Society for American Baseball Research |website=sabr.org|access-date=August 11, 2018}} In 1920, the Bates Outing Club was founded and is one of the oldest collegiate outing clubs in the country,{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/campus/student-orgs/student-clubs-and-organizations/|title=Student Clubs and Organizations {{!}} Campus Life {{!}} Bates College|website=bates.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123144204/http://www.bates.edu/campus/student-orgs/student-clubs-and-organizations/|archive-date=November 23, 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/months/january/outing-club/|title=January 1920: The Outing Club's winter birth {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{Cite book|title=Bates Through the Years: an Illustrated History|last=Clark|first=Charles E.|publisher=Bates College, Lewiston, Maine|year=2005|location=Edmund Muskie Archives|page=37}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/months/february/debates-harvard/|title=Bates debates Harvard at City Hall {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} Oxford's first debate in the United States was against Bates in Lewiston, in September 1923.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19230829&id=_bMgAAAAIBAJ&pg=1100,3668337|title=Oxford and Bates to Meet in Debate August 23, 1923|website=Google News Archives|publisher=Lewiston Daily Sun|page=14|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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." During the war, a victory ship was named the SS Bates Victory, after the college.{{cite web|url=http://www.usmm.org/victoryard.html|title=Victory Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission during World War II |website=usmm.org|access-date=August 11, 2018}} It was during this time future U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy enrolled along with hundreds of other sailor-students.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/months/july/navy-arrives/|title=July 1943: The Navy arrives {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RKzUqXc3BHgC|title=Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness|author=Walter Isaacson|date=October 17, 2011|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=9780393340761|author-link=Walter Isaacson}} 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.{{Cite book|title=Faith by Their Works: The Progressive Tradition at Bates College from 1855 to 1877|last=Larson|first=Timothy|publisher=Bates College Publishing|year=2005|location=Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine|pages=Multi-source}} 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."{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/sports/the-night-the-ali-liston-fight-came-to-lewiston.html|title=The Night the Ali-Liston Fight Came to Lewiston|last=Araton|first=Harvey|date=November 15, 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 11, 2018|issn=0362-4331}}File:View from Hathorn Hall.jpg in 2015]]During this time the college began to compete athletically with Colby College, and in 1964, with Bowdoin created the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium.{{cite web|url=http://athletics.bowdoin.edu/sports/fball/2015-16/releases/20151105o8ddf1|title=Bowdoin Football Opens CBB Chase Saturday at Bates – Bowdoin November 5, 2015|website=athletics.bowdoin.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813004712/http://athletics.bowdoin.edu/sports/fball/2015-16/releases/20151105o8ddf1|url-status=dead}} In 1967, President Thomas Hedley Reynolds promoted the idea of teacher-scholars at Bates and secured the construction of numerous academic and recreational buildings.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/bates-greats/thomas-hedley-reynolds/|title=Thomas Hedley Reynolds {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} In 1984, Bates became one of the first liberal arts colleges to make the SAT and ACT optional in the admission process.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/admission/optional-testing/|title=Optional Testing at Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2013-06-06 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/past-presidents/bates-college-presidents/donald-west-harward/|title=Donald West Harward {{!}} Past Presidents {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-08-31 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/bates-greats/donald-w-harward/|title=Donald W. Harward {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} During the 1990s and mid-2000s, Bates consolidated its reputation of being a "playground for the elite",{{Cite web|url=https://www.sunjournal.com/2019/04/28/bates-students-fear-college-will-become-playground-for-elites/|title=Bates students fear college will become 'playground for elites'|last=Collins|first=Steve|date=November 28, 2019|website=Lewiston Sun Journal|access-date=April 20, 2020}} by educating upper-middle-class to affluent Americans,{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2013/05/diversity-of-what/|title=Diversity of what?|last=Furlow|first=Matt|date=May 1, 2013|website=thebatesstudent.com|access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2014/04/real-talk/|title=Real talk|last=Pham|first=Michelle|date=April 30, 2014|website=thebatesstudent.com|access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2014/01/debunking-middle-class-myth/|title=Debunking the "Middle Class myth" {{!}} The Bates Student|last=Tatro|first=Devin|date=January 15, 2014|website=thebatesstudent.com|access-date=August 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807222430/http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2014/01/debunking-middle-class-myth/|archive-date=August 7, 2016|url-status=dead}} which led to student protests and reforms to make the college more diverse both racially, and socioeconomically.{{Cite journal|last=Shawker|first=Cheri|date=2016|title=White Priviliage at Bates College|url=http://scarab.bates.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1150&context=honorstheses|journal=Bates College|access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/Bates-College-Students-Protest/93588|title=Bates College Students Protest Lack of Minorities April 13, 1994|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

Academic Elaine Tuttle Hansen was elected as the first female president of Bates and managed the second-largest capital campaign ever undertaken by Bates, totaling $120 million and lead the endowment through the 2008 financial crisis.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/past-presidents/bates-college-presidents/elaine-tuttle-hansen/|title=Elaine Tuttle Hansen {{!}} Past Presidents {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-08-31 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2002/10/26/hansen-inaugurated/|title=Hansen inaugurated as Bates' seventh president |website=bates.edu |date=2002-10-26 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} The college announced her retirement in 2011, appointing Nancy Cable as interim president. That year, Bates made national headlines for being named the most expensive college in the U.S.,{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-50-most-expensive-us-colleges/16/|title=The 50 most expensive U.S. colleges|website=CBS News |date=2012-10-24 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} which caused backlash from American academia and students as it highlighted substantial socioeconomic inequality among students.

Harvard University dean Clayton Spencer assumed the presidency in 2012 and created diversity mandates, expanded student and faculty recruitment, and financial aid.{{cite news|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/10/harvard-president-faust-at-bates-college-inauguration|title=Academic Access, Education Reform October 29, 2012|website=Harvard Magazine|date= 2012-10-29 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/news/2012/10/29/inaugural-address-clayton-spencer/|title=Questions Worth Asking — President Clayton Spencer's inaugural address |website=bates.edu |date=2012-10-29 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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. According to a 2017 article on income inequality by The New York Times,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html|title=Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours. January 18, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times |date=2017-01-18 |access-date=August 11, 2018|issn=0362-4331}} 18% of Bates students came from the 1% of the American upper class,{{Cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/the-top-1-percentand-01-percentof-every-age-group-in-america/382094/|title=How Much Income Puts You in the 1 Percent if You're 30, 40, or 50?|last=Thompson|first=Derek|newspaper=The Atlantic|access-date=August 11, 2018|language=en-US}} with more than half coming from the top 5%.{{Cite news |date=January 18, 2018 |title=Economic diversity and student outcomes at Bates |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/bates-college |access-date=August 11, 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} According to the Portland Press Herald, Michael Bonney '80 and his family donated $50 million to Bates, the largest ever donation to a Maine college.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pressherald.com/2017/05/16/maine-family-donating-50-million-to-bates-college/|title=Maine family gives $50 million 'transformational' gift to Bates College capital campaign – Portland Press Herald|author=Noel K. Gallagher|date=May 16, 2017|website=Press Herald|access-date=August 11, 2018}} As part of their "Bates+You" fundraising campaign, Bates raised $345.7 million from 2017 to 2022.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-07 |title=Academic standing ‘not sustainable’ without larger endowment, Bates College warns |url=https://www.sunjournal.com/2025/03/07/academic-standing-not-sustainable-without-larger-endowment-bates-college-warns/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Lewiston Sun Journal}}

Ron Lieber of The New York Times noted that need-aware colleges like Bates 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."{{Cite news|last=Lieber|first=Ron|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/your-money/college-admissions-wealth.html|title=Another Admissions Advantage for the Affluent: Just Pay Full Price|date=2019-03-15|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-04-26|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} This impacted tuition affordability at Bates, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.Bauman, Dan. 2023. Wealthy but Wary. Chronicle of Higher Education. Jan. 20, 2023. vol. 69.11. Legal scholar Garry Jenkins was appointed president in 2023, becoming the first black president of Bates.{{Cite web |last=Law |first=Claire |date=March 1, 2023 |title=Bates College elects its first Black president |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/01/metro/bates-college-elects-its-first-black-president/ |access-date=August 8, 2023 |website=The Boston Globe |language=en-US}}{{cite web |date=2023-06-28 |title=Garry W. Jenkins |url=https://www.bates.edu/president/welcoming-garry-w-jenkins/garry-w-jenkins/}}

File:Entrance to Coram Library.jpgBates 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 around 1,800 students, 200 of whom study abroad each semester.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/academics/|title=Academics {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2011-06-21 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/academics/programs-resources/short-term/|title=Short Term {{!}} Academics {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-09-10 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} Two Short Terms are required for graduation, with a maximum of three.

The largest natural science academic department is biology, 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/research/files/2015/04/bates.facts_1415.pdf|title=Bates College 2014/2015 Statistics and Facts|publisher=Bates College|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531063842/http://www.bates.edu/research/files/2015/04/bates.facts_1415.pdf|archive-date=2015-05-31|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/career/engineering/|title=Engineering {{!}} Career Development Center {{!}} Bates College|website=bates.edu|language=en|access-date=August 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725183703/https://www.bates.edu/career/engineering/|archive-date=July 25, 2018|url-status=dead}} Bates is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.{{Citation|title=Maine Institutions – NECHE|publisher=New England Commission of Higher Education|url=https://www.neche.org/institutions/me/|access-date=May 26, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Bates&s=all&id=160977#programs |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=U.S. Dept of Education |title=Bates College |access-date=January 24, 2023}}

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Students at Bates take a first-year seminar, which provides a template for the rest of the four years at Bates. 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 research thesis.{{cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/academics/|title= Academics {{!}} Bates College|website=bates.edu |date=2011-06-21 |access-date=December 8, 2020}} The Honors Program includes a tutorial-based thesis modeled after the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/honors/|title=Honors Program – Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2011-06-09 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

File:Bates College Concert Hall.jpgAccording to the U.S. National Science Foundation, the college received $1.15 million in grants, fellowships, and R&D stipends for research.{{Cite web|url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=report&fice=2036&id=f2|title=NSF – NCSES Academic Institution Profiles – Bates College : Federal obligations for science and engineering, by agency and type of activity: 2014|website=ncsesdata.nsf.gov|access-date=August 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813005007/https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=report&fice=2036&id=f2|archive-date=2018-08-13|url-status=dead}} The college spent $1,584,000 in 2014 on research and development.{{Cite web|url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd|title=NCSES Data Set: Bates College|access-date=August 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113144205/https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd|archive-date=2017-01-13|url-status=dead}} The Bates Student Research Fund was established for students completing independent research or capstones.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/academics/student-research/academic-year/bates-student-research-fund/|title=Bates Student Research Fund {{!}} Academics {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-09-10 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/academics/student-research/academic-year/stem-travel-grants/|title=STEM Travel Grants {{!}} Academics {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2012-11-28 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/offcampus/before/financial-aid/endowment-details/|title=Barlow Grants {{!}} Off-Campus Study {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-03-24 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/academics/research-opportunities/|title=Research Opportunities {{!}} Academics {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-09-10 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/grants/front-page/apply-for-a-new-grant/grant-news/|title=Grant News {{!}} External Grants {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The college's Harward Center is its main research entity for community-based research and offers fellowships to students.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/harward/curricular/community-based-research/|title=Community-Engaged Research {{!}} Harward Center {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2011-07-19 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} According to a 2001 study, Bates' economics department was the most cited liberal arts department in the United States.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2001/10/25/econ-rank/|title=Economics department ranked at top of leading liberal arts college October 25, 2001 |date=2001-10-25 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/economics/faculty/|title=Faculty {{!}} Economics {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-05-17 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://abacus.bates.edu/acad/pubs/FacHB/benefits.html|title=The Faculty Handbook of Bates College: Faculty Benefits and Support Programs |website=abacus.bates.edu|date=2011-06-21 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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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".{{cite journal|last1=Weiss|first1=Richard G.|last2=Wamser|first2=Carl C.|year=2006|title=Introduction to the Special Issue in honour of George Simms Hammond|journal=Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences|volume=5|issue=10|pages=869–870|doi=10.1039/b612175f|s2cid=95566853 |doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last=Wamser|first=Carl C.|date=May 5, 2003|title=Biography of George S. Hammond|journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry A|volume=107|issue=18|pages=3149–3150|bibcode=2003JPCA..107.3149W|doi=10.1021/jp030184e|issn=1089-5639}} Hammond would go on to invent Hammond's postulate, revolutionizing activation levels in chemical compounds.{{Cite book|title=Organic Chemistry|last=Fox and Whiteshell|first=Marye Anne and James K.|publisher=Jones and Bartlett Publishers|year=2004|isbn=978-0-7637-2197-8|location=Sudbury, Massachusetts|pages=355–357}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/about/governance/election/steven_girvin.cfm|title=Steven Girvin {{!}} Chair-Elect, Nominating Committee|publisher=American Physical Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709111021/http://www.aps.org/about/governance/election/steven_girvin.cfm|archive-date=July 9, 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018|df=dmy-all}}{{cite journal|last=DiCarlo|first=L.|display-authors=etal|date=July 2009|title=Demonstration of two-qubit algorithms with a superconducting quantum processor|journal=Nature|volume=460|issue=7252|pages=240–244|arxiv=0903.2030|bibcode=2009Natur.460..240D|doi=10.1038/nature08121|pmid=19561592|s2cid=4395714}} [https://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0903/0903.2030v2.pdf arXiv] 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oakridger.com/article/20090424/NEWS/304249996|title=John Googin: The scientist of Y-12|last=Smith|first=D. Ray|access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/frances-m-carroll|title=Frances M. Carroll |website=Atomic Heritage Foundation|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/physics-astronomy/stephens-observatory/|title=Stephens Observatory {{!}} Physics & Astronomy {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2013-01-09 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/physics-astronomy/astronomy/|title=The Ladd Planetarium {{!}} Physics & Astronomy {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-05-26 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

{{as of|2025}}, Bates has a faculty of 200 and a student body of 1,800 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/news/2015/04/03/students-admitted-to-the-class-of-2019-are-the-academically-strongest-most-diverse-in-bates-history-3/#through-text|title=Students admitted to the Class of 2019 are the academically strongest, most diverse in Bates history|last=Fischer|first=Kent|date=April 3, 2015|website=bates.edu|language=en|access-date=August 11, 2018}} Full-time professors at the college received an average total compensation of $123,066 in 2015, 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.{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/interactives/executive-compensation|title=Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges|date=December 6, 2015|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207054516/http://chronicle.com/interactives/executive-compensation|archive-date=2015-12-07|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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, film screenings, as well as other activities in the Lewiston area.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/summit/|title=Mount David Summit – Bates College |website=bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}} Started in 2002, the summit is held in Pettengill Hall.{{cite web|url=http://www.sunjournal.com/news/connections/2016/03/30/bates-college-hosting-15th-mount-david-summit/1896320|title=Bates College hosting 15th Mount David Summit |website=Sun Journal|date=2016-03-30 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/news/2013/03/22/mds13/|title=At age 12, Mount David Summit is better than ever – Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2013-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

{{Infobox U.S. college admissions

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For the class of 2023, Bates admitted 12.1% of all applicants, the lowest-ever for the college.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/admission/student-profile/|title=Student Profile {{!}} Admission {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2014-02-11 |language=en|access-date=August 11, 2018}} During the 2018-19 admission rounds, Bates accepted seven transfer students from 205 applicants, yielding a 3.4% transfer acceptance rate.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/research/files/2019/05/cds1819.pdf|title=Bates College Common Data Set 2018-19|date=January 20, 2019|website=Bates College|access-date=April 20, 2020}} The college has had years where no transfer applicants were accepted, such as in 2016-17, where all 170 applicants failed to gain admission.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/research/files/2017/01/bates.facts_1617.pdf|title=Bates College Common Data Set 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007121033/http://www.bates.edu/research/files/2017/01/bates.facts_1617.pdf|archive-date=2017-10-07|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The college had its highest admit rate during the 2008-09 year, accepting 30.4% of applicants.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/research/files/2010/03/cds.0809.bates_.pdf|title=Bates College Common Data Set 2008-09 |access-date=July 22, 2018}}

The average high school GPA for the class of 2019 was an unweighted 3.71.{{cite web |title=Bates College Common Data Set |url=http://www.bates.edu/research/files/2010/03/cds1516.pdf |access-date=August 11, 2018}} The average SAT Score was 2135 (715 Critical Reasoning, 711 Mathematics and 709 Writing), and the average ACT score range was 28 to 32. Bates has a Test Optional Policy, which gives the applicant the choice to not send in their standardized test scores.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/admission/optional-testing/|title=Optional Testing {{!}} Admission {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2013-06-06 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} Bates' non-submitting students averaged only 0.05 points lower on their collegiate grade point average.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/news/2005/10/01/sat-study/|title=20-year Bates College study of optional SATs finds no differences {{!}} News {{!}} Bates College October 1, 2005|website=bates.edu|date=October 2005|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The Wall Street Journal found that Bates had some of the "toughest rejection letters" in the U.S. during the late-2000s.{{Cite news|last=Shellenbarger|first=Sue|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124096471555766239|title=Rejection: Some Colleges Do It Better Than Others|date=November 30, 2009|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=April 20, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}} The college later apologized and issued a statement assuring that it makes an effort to "[deny] the student's application… not [reject] the student".

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For the 2024-25 academic year, Bates charged a comprehensive price (tuition, room and board, and associated fees) of $85,370.{{Cite web |date=2011-06-08 |title=Tuition, Fees and Other Costs |url=https://www.bates.edu/financial-services/costs-and-payment/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Student Financial Services |language=en}} 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 U.S., and meets all of the demonstrated need for all admitted students, including admitted international students.{{cite web|url=http://www.thecollegesolution.com/list-of-colleges-that-meet-100-of-financial-need/|title=List of Colleges That Meet 100% of Financial Need {{!}} The College Solution |website=thecollegesolution.com |date=2013-10-28 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

Bates does not offer merit or athletic scholarships. Bates is often the most expensive school to attend in its athletic conference.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/research/files/2015/04/bates.facts_1415.pdf|title=Federal Financial Aid Programs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531063842/http://www.bates.edu/research/files/2015/04/bates.facts_1415.pdf|archive-date=2015-05-31|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}} It has the second-lowest percentage of Pell Grant recipients in the U.S., below only Fairfield University.{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=James |url=https://edreformnow.org/2022/11/10/what-the-pell-americas-worst-colleges-and-universities-for-enrolling-students-from-low-income-households/ |title=What the Pell?!? America's Worst Colleges and Universities For Enrolling Students from Low-Income Households |access-date=2022-12-14 |work=Education Reform Now |date=2022-11-10}}

For the class of 2025, the gender demographic of the college breaks down to 47% male and 53% female. 27% of U.S. students are students of color (domestic and international) and 12% of admitted students are first-generation to college.{{Cite web |date=2021-08-20 |title=Numbers, facts, and insights about the Class of 2025 |url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2021/08/20/numbers-fact-and-insights-about-the-class-of-2025/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=News |language=en}} 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. Bates has a 95% freshman retention rate. A significant portion of 45% of all applicants, transfer and non-transfer, are from New England. About 89% of students are out-of-state, (all 50 states are represented), and the college has students from 73 countries.{{cite web|url=http://www.princetonreview.com/schools/1024055/college/bates-college#!studentbody|title=Bates College: Admissions, Average Test Scores & Tuition : The Princeton Review |website=Princeton Review|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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| USNWR_LA = 26

| Wamo_LA = 28

| Forbes = 80

| THE_WSJ = 64

}}

Bates is noted as one of the Little Ivies,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-22/little-good-news-for-the-little-ivies|title=Little Good News for the Little Ivies|last=Smith|first=Kate|date=December 22, 2016|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracekay/2019/08/15/top-15-liberal-arts-colleges-2019-claremont-colleges-vs-little-ivies/|title=Top 15 Liberal Arts Colleges 2019: Claremont Colleges Vs Little Ivies|last=Kay|first=Grace|date=August 19, 2019|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=April 20, 2020}} 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 2025 annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report ranked Bates tied for 26th overall best liberal arts college in the nation.{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/bates-college-2036/overall-rankings |title=Bates College Rankings |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |year=2020 |access-date=September 14, 2019}} Forbes ranked Bates 80th in its 2025 national rankings of 500 U.S. colleges, universities and service academies, and 20th among liberal arts colleges.{{Cite web |title=Bates College |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/bates-college/?list=top-colleges |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Forbes |language=en}} In 2024, Washington Monthly ranked Bates 28th among 194 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.{{Cite web |title=2024 Liberal Arts Colleges Ranking |url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024-college-guide/liberal-arts/ |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=Washington Monthly |language=en-US}}

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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 and a large population of Somali immigrants, arriving between the 1990s and 2010s. The college is known to have had cultural strains with the town in the past, with townspeople describing Bates as a "leafy oasis of privilege."{{Cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2015/05/22/ali-liston-50-years/|title=50 years ago: Ali, Liston, Lewiston, Bates|last=Burns|first=Jay|date=May 22, 2015|website=bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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. 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.{{Cite book|title=Architecture of Bates College|last=Stuan|first=Thomas|publisher=Bates College, Lewiston, Maine|year=2006|location=Ladd Library, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine|page=23}} Many buildings on campus share design parallels with Dartmouth College, University of Cambridge, Yale University, and Harvard University.{{Cite book|title=The Architecture of Bates College|last=Stuan|first=Thomas|publisher=Bates College|year=2006|location=Ladd Library, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine|page=23}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/chaplaincy/chapel/|title=The Peter J. Gomes Chapel {{!}} Multifaith Chaplaincy {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-07-14 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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Bates has a 133-acre main campus and maintains the 600-acre Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area,{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/harward/bates-morse-mountain-shortridge/|title=Bates-Morse Mountain & Shortridge {{!}} Harward Center {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2017-10-19 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} as well as an 80-acre Coastal Center fresh water habitat at Shortridge.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/harward/bmmcashortridge-field-research/|title=Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area and Shortridge Field Research {{!}} Harward Center {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2017-10-19 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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. Coram Library houses almost 200,000 volumes of articles, subscriptions and audio/video items.{{cite web |url=http://www.bates.edu/library/coram-library/ |title=Coram Library {{!}} Library {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2012-09-05 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/library/|title=Library {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2012-07-12 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/Collections/Books.shtml |title=Bates College: Muskie Archives: Collections |website=abacus.bates.edu |date=2016-12-21 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

The campus provides 33 Victorian Houses, 9 residential halls, and one residential village.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/improvements/|title=Campus Facilities Planning – Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-07-27 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/tour/administrative-buildings/lane-hall/|title=Lane Hall {{!}} Campus Tour {{!}} Bates College|website=bates.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616143635/http://www.bates.edu/tour/administrative-buildings/lane-hall/|archive-date=2016-06-16|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/music/about/olin-arts-center/|title=Olin Arts Center {{!}} Music {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-06-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} The center houses the departments of Art and Music, and was given to Bates by the F. W. Olin Foundation in 1986.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/tour/academic-buildings/olin-arts-center/|title=Olin Arts Center {{!}} Campus Tour {{!}} Bates College|website=bates.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905223725/http://www.bates.edu/tour/academic-buildings/olin-arts-center/|archive-date=2017-09-05|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The center has had numerous Artists in Residence, such as Frank Glazer, and Leyla McCalla.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/news/2014/01/31/three-days-three-big-bates-concerts-songs-of-hanns-eisler-glazers-99th-singer-mccalla/|title=Three days, three big Bates concerts: songs of Hanns Eisler, Glazer's 99th, singer McCalla {{!}} News {{!}} Bates College|last=Burns|first=Jay|date=January 31, 2014|website=bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/news/2014/01/31/taking-a-break-from-the-carolina-chocolate-drops-singer-mccalla-to-perform/|title=Taking a break from the Carolina Chocolate Drops, singer McCalla to perform {{!}} News {{!}} Bates College January 31, 2014|website=bates.edu|date=2014-01-31 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} The Olin Arts Center has joined with the Maine Music Society to produce musical performances throughout Maine.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/news/2007/03/27/brahms-requiem/|title=College joins Maine Music Society to amass 260 musicians for Brahms concert {{!}} News {{!}} Bates College|last=Burns|first=Jay|date=March 27, 2007|website=bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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{{main|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'.{{Cite book|title=Bates Through the Years: an Illustrated History|last=Clark|first=Charles E.|publisher=Edmund Muskie Archives|year=2005|location=Edmund Muskie Archives: Bates College, Lewiston, Maine|page=37}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/museum/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/2015-2/the-painter-of-maine-photographs-of-marsden-hartley/|title=The Painter of Maine: Photographs of Marsden Hartley {{!}} Museum of Art {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2015-03-23 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/museum/visit/about-2/marsden-hartley-and-beyond/|title=Marsden Hartley and Beyond {{!}} Museum of Art {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-07 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/museum/visit/history-of-the-museum-and-art-collection/|title=History of the Museum of Art {{!}} Museum of Art {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-03-07 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

{{main| 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/harward/files/2011/06/CEYES0910FINALONLINE.pdf|title=ShortRdige Programs: Bates College |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

File:The Commons, Bates College.jpgIn 2015, the college's dining program was ranked 6th by The Princeton Review,{{cite web |title=Bates College Admissions, Average Test Scores & Tuition The Princeton Review |url=http://www.princetonreview.com/schools/1024055/college/bates-college |access-date=August 11, 2018 |website=Princeton Review}} and 8th by Niche in the United States.{{cite web|url=http://college.usatoday.com/2015/01/12/survey-ranks-the-colleges-with-the-best-food-plans/|title=Survey ranks the colleges with the best food plans|date=January 12, 2015|website=USA Today College|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113091251/http://college.usatoday.com/2015/01/12/survey-ranks-the-colleges-with-the-best-food-plans/|archive-date=2015-01-13|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The college's dining services received the grade of 'A+' by Niche in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.{{Cite web |title=Bates College |url=https://colleges.niche.com/bates-college/ |access-date=August 11, 2018 |website=Niche |language=en-US}} The college holds one main dining area and offers two floors of seating.{{cite web|url=https://colleges.niche.com/bates-college/campus-food/|title=Bates College – Campus Food |website=Niche.com|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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 in Maine.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/dining/who-we-are/food-quality-and-nutrition/|title=Food Quality and Nutrition {{!}} Dining Services {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The Den serves as an on-campus restaurant.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/tour/the-den/|title=The Den {{!}} Campus Tour {{!}} Bates College|website=bates.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428154254/http://www.bates.edu/tour/the-den/|archive-date=2012-04-28|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}} While on campus, enrolled students and faculty have access to round-the-clock emergency medical services and security protection.{{Cite web|url=http://abacus.bates.edu/people/orgs/ems/|title=Bates Emergency Medical Services, Bates College |website=abacus.bates.edu |date=2017-08-07 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.bates.edu/security/ |title=Security & Campus Safety {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2011-06-08 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} The college also holds an annual "Harvest Dinner" during Thanksgiving that features a school-wide dining experience.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/news/2008/11/13/harvest-meal-2008/|title=Fare to remember: Harvest Meal 2008 {{!}} News {{!}} Bates College November 13, 2008|website=bates.edu |date=2008-11-13 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} Martin Luther King Day at Bates is celebrated annually with classes being canceled 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/mlk/|title=Martin Luther King Jr. Observance {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/mlk/mlk-day-2016-keynote-speaker-william-jelani-cobb/ |title=MLK Day 2016 keynote speaker: William Jelani Cobb {{!}} Martin Luther King Jr. Observance {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2015-12-11 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} The college offers students 110 clubs and organizations on campus.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/campus/student-orgs/student-clubs-and-organizations/|title=Student Clubs and Organizations {{!}} Campus Life {{!}} Bates College|website=bates.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904003336/http://www.bates.edu/campus/student-orgs/student-clubs-and-organizations/|archive-date=2015-09-04|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}} Among those is the competitive eating club, the Fat Cats, Ultimate Frisbee, and the student government. The largest club is the Outing Club, which leads canoeing, kayaking, rafting, camping and backpacking trips throughout Maine.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/boc/|title=Bates Outing Club {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|date=2015-02-16 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} Although Bates has since conception rejected fraternities and sororities, various social groups exist.File:Bates Student 1877.jpg (1877) is the oldest coeducational college newspaper in the United States.]]

{{main|The Bates Student}}

Bates College's oldest 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,{{cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/04/pulitzer-goes-to-elizabeth-strout-former-la-times-book-award-winner-.html|title=Pulitzer goes to Elizabeth Strout, former L.A. Times book award winner December 20, 2009|website=Los Angeles Times Blogs – Jacket Copy|date=2009-04-20 |language=en-US|access-date=August 11, 2018}} and have their later work featured on major news sources.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/books/review/elizabeth-strouts-my-name-is-lucy-barton.html|title=Elizabeth Strout's 'My Name Is Lucy Barton'|last=Messud|first=Claire|date=March 1, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=August 11, 2018|issn=0362-4331}}{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/05/entertainment/producers-guild-nominations-thr-feat/index.html|title=Producers nominate 'Max,' 'Short,' leave off 'Star Wars'|last=Thomas|first=Hilary|date=January 5, 2016|access-date=August 11, 2018|website=CNN}} It circulates approximately 1,900 copies around the campus and Lewiston area. Since 1990, there has been an electronic version of the newspaper online.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebatesstudent.com|title=The Bates Student {{!}} Voice of Bates College since 1873 |website=thebatesstudent.com|language=en-US|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://theintercept.com/2021/10/17/bates-college-union-student-censorship/|title=BATES COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION CENSORS STUDENT REPORTERS COVERING STAFF UNIONIZATION|access-date=October 19, 2021|date=October 17, 2021|work=The Intercept|author=Nathan Bernard}}

{{main|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 NESCAC.{{cite web|url=http://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=best-college-radio-station|title=Best College Radio Station {{!}} The Princeton Review |website=princetonreview.com|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/music/student-groups/|title=Student Groups {{!}} Music {{!}} Bates College|website=bates.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926233057/http://www.bates.edu/music/student-groups/|archive-date=2015-09-26|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

{{Main| Brooks Quimby Debate Council}}File:Mirror, 1921 (1921) (14598023988).jpg, 1924, 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. The Quimby Debate Society has been noted as "America's most prestigious debating society,"{{Cite journal|last=Burns|first=John F.|date=November 27, 2007|title=Oxford Union girds for far-right debate Protesters vow 'anti- fascist' rally|journal=International Herald Tribune|pages=1}} and the "playground of the powerful."{{Cite book|title=Bates Through the Years: an Illustrated History|last=Clark|first=Charles E.|publisher=Bates College, Lewiston, Maine|year=2005|location=Edmund Muskie Archives|page=37|quote=Oxford's Union has been historical characterized as the playground of the powerful, but with the mounting power the alumni of Brooks have accumulated it is clear to see the society is the playground of the powerful in the states.}} 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. 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2012/02/29/bates-debate-global-ranking/|title=Bates debate hits No. 9 in global ranking|last=Burns|first=Jay|date=February 29, 2012|website=bates.edu|access-date=October 31, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2013/10/31/bates-debate-rank-fifth-nation/|title=Bates debate ranks fifth in nation, including key win at Yale Inter-Varsity Tournament|last=VanDerburgh|first=Barbara|date=October 31, 2013|website=bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

File:IvyBates College.jpg, in 2015, featuring respective classes' Ivy stones, in celebration of the college's Ivy Day]]

{{Main|Bates College traditions}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2006/05/04/ivy-stone/|title=The Class of 1975 joins the ivy stone tradition {{!}} News {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2006-05-04 |language=en |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

This tradition is nearly a century old. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/months/january/torch-tradition/|title=January 1958: The Winter Carnival torch tradition |website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/news/1997/01/13/winter-carnival-1997/|title=Winter carnival to be held {{!}} News {{!}} Bates College January 13, 1997|website=bates.edu|date=1997-01-13 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/24_hours_in_a_day_24_beers_in_a_case_coincidence_i_think_not_newman_day/|title="24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." (Newman Day)|last=Popik|first=Barry|date=July 6, 2012|website=barrypopik.com|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The carnival has been hosted by the Bates Outing Club since its conception.{{cite web|url=http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2015/01/95th-anniversary-winter-carnival/|title=95th anniversary of Winter Carnival|last=Goldberg|first=Hannah|date=January 21, 2015|access-date=August 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813043338/http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2015/01/95th-anniversary-winter-carnival/|archive-date=August 13, 2018|url-status=dead}} On the Friday of Winter Carnival, the Outing Club initiates the annual Puddle Jump, wherein a hole is cut by a chainsaw or axe in Lake Andrews and students jump in.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/months/march/puddle-jump/|title=Puddle Jump {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College August 11, 2018|website=bates.edu|date=2010-03-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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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.{{Cite web|url=http://athletics.bates.edu/sports/fball/2016-17/schedule|title=2016-17 Football Schedule {{!}} Athletics {{!}} Bates College |website=athletics.bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2015/11/football-secures-second-consecutive-cbb-championship-win-bowdoin/|title=Football secures second consecutive CBB championship with win over Bowdoin – The Bates Student|last=Karsten|first=James|date=November 11, 2015|website=The Bates Student|language=en-US|access-date=August 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142706/http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2015/11/football-secures-second-consecutive-cbb-championship-win-bowdoin/|archive-date=June 12, 2018|url-status=dead}}

According to U.S. Rowing, the Women's Rowing Team is ranked first in the NESCAC, and first overall in NCAA Division III rowing, {{as of|2016|lc=y}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.usrowing.org/news/details/2016/04/20/california-takes-the-top-barry-and-bates-hold-in-usrowing-crca-week-five-poll|title=California Takes the Top – Barry and Bates Hold in USRowing/CRCA Week Five Poll|website=usrowing.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428063717/http://www.usrowing.org/news/details/2016/04/20/california-takes-the-top-barry-and-bates-hold-in-usrowing-crca-week-five-poll|archive-date=2016-04-28|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.nescac.com/sports/rowing/2014-15/championship/NESCAC_Champions|title=Bates Men, Women Sweep NESCAC Rowing Championships – NESCAC May 10, 2015|website=nescac.com|access-date=August 11, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813043433/https://www.nescac.com/sports/rowing/2014-15/championship/NESCAC_Champions|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://athletics.bates.edu/bobcat-olympians|title=Bobcat Olympians {{!}} Athletics {{!}} Bates College |website=athletics.bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The all-time leader of the Chase Regatta is Bates with a total of 14 composite wins, followed by Colby's five wins, concluding with Bowdoin's two wins.

The ice hockey team is the first team to win the NESCAC Club Ice Hockey Championships four times in a row.{{cite web|url=http://athletics.bates.edu/sports/rowing/2014-15/releases/20150502jgiyqn|title=Women's rowing team dominates the New England Rowing Championships {{!}} Athletics {{!}} Bates College May 2, 2015|website=athletics.bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}} {{as of|2016}}, the men's club ice hockey team is ranked 5th in the Northeast, and 25th overall in the NECHA rankings.{{cite web|url=http://pointstreaksites.com/view/necha/league-standings-22|title=League Standings Northeast Collegiate Hockey Association (NECHA) – Pointstreak Sites May 1, 2016|website=pointstreaksites.com|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://eisaskiing.blogspot.com//BART/Results08/ncaa2008-4.htm|title=EISA Skiing|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314171024/http://eisaskiing.blogspot.com/|archive-date=March 14, 2016|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}} In April 2005, the college's athletic program was ranked top 5% of national athletics programs.{{cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2005/04/14/athletics-programs/|title=Bates ranked in top 5 percent of national athletics programs News Bates College April 14, 2005|website=bates.edu|date=2005-04-14|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/news/2016/03/24/an-inside-look-at-bates-squash-champ-ahmed-abdel-khaleks-road-to-victory/|title=Shot by shot, an inside look at Bates squash champ Ahmed Abdel Khalek's road to victory|last=Morse|first=Aaron|date=March 24, 2016|website=bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://athletics.bates.edu/sports/mtrack/2015-16/releases/20160423tvp6xv|title=Bates wins seventh straight Maine State Men's Outdoor Championship {{!}} Athletics {{!}} Bates College April 23, 2016|website=athletics.bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}} Bates maintains 31 varsity teams, and 9 club teams, including sailing, cycling, ice hockey, rugby, and water polo.{{cite web|url=http://athletics.bates.edu/landing/index/#submenu3-2|title=Athletics {{!}} Bates College |website=athletics.bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/news/2005/11/22/green-power/|title=Bates commits to Maine 'green power' for its electricity November 22, 2005|website=bates.edu |date=2005-11-22 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} Bates College signed onto the American College and University President's Climate Commitment in 2007.{{cite web |url=http://www2.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/documents/summitbooklet2012.pdf |title=President's Climate Commitment |access-date=December 4, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208153836/http://www2.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/documents/summitbooklet2012.pdf |archive-date=December 8, 2015}} In April 2008, the college completed its dining complex named "The Commons"{{Cite journal |last=Elbaum|first=Meredith|date=May 1, 2005|title=A Not So Common College Commons: Sustainable Dining at Bates College |journal=Journal of Green Building|volume=5|issue=2|pages=16–26|doi=10.3992/jgb.5.2.16 |issn=1552-6100 |doi-access=free}} at a cost of approximately $24 million.{{cite web|url=http://www.pupnmag.com/article/detail/6390/lucky-seven-bates-dining-commons|title=Lucky Seven: Bates Dining Commons – PUPN Mag|last=Burns|first=Jay |date=January 1, 2015|website=pupnmag.com|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/sustainability/buildings/dining-commons/|title=Dining Commons {{!}} Sustainability {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-07-13 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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".{{cite web|url=http://www.traulsen.com/traulsennewsarticle.aspx?id=1415|title=Traulsen |website=traulsen.com|access-date=August 11, 2018}} In 2010, the college was named one of 15 colleges in the United States to the "Green Honor Roll", by The Princeton Review.{{cite web|url=http://www.evergreen.edu/news/archives/2009/07/princeton.htm|title=Princeton Review Chooses The Evergreen State College for Its "Green Rating Honor Roll" at Evergreen July 28, 2010|website=evergreen.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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. 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. 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. 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 900 kW hyper-roterized turbine that accounts for nearly one-tenth of the campus' entire energy consumption.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/sustainability/files/2011/11/Bates-CAP-20102.pdf|title=Bates College Sustainability January 1, 2013|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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;{{Cite news|url=https://www.pressherald.com/2015/10/21/vegetarian-kitchen-mystery-meat-yields-to-greener-meals-in-maine-college-dining-halls/|title=Mystery meat yields to greener meals in Maine college dining halls|last=Yale Kamila|first=Avery|date=October 21, 2015|work=Press Herald|access-date=August 11, 2018|language=en-US}} it earned three out of three stars, the only educational institution in Maine to do so.{{cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2013/07/31/green-restaurant-association-three-star-sustainable-dining/|title=Bates earns third star for 'green' dining, joining just five other schools in category|last=Hubley|first=Doug|date=July 31, 2013|website=bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

Bates maintains numerous environmental clubs and initiatives such as Green Certification, which recognizes students who commit to sustainable policies and practices,{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/sustainability/get-involved/get-involved-for-students/green-room-certification/|title=Green Certification {{!}} Sustainability {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2013-08-29 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} Green Bike, which offers students access to bicycles for use on and off campus for free,{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/sustainability/green-bike-program/|title=Green Bike Program {{!}} Sustainability {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2013-09-04 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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."{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/sustainability/get-involved/get-involved-for-students/|title=Sustainability at Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2013-03-18 |language=en|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The Bates College Museum of Art offers programs such as the Green Horizons Program that showcase environmentalism in art, society, and culture.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/museum/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/y2007/green-horizons/|title=Green Horizons {{!}} Museum of Art {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-04-16 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/30197111?access_key=key-1laskaan3lw2eknp570|title=Scribd|website=scribd.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105210658/https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/30197111?access_key=key-1laskaan3lw2eknp570|archive-date=2016-01-05|url-status=dead|access-date=August 11, 2018}} All newly developed buildings and facilities are built to LEED Silver and Gold standards.{{cite web|url=http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2011/schools/bates-college.html|title=Bates College – Green Report Card 2011 May 4, 2011|website=greenreportcard.org|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The college achieved complete carbon neutrality in 2019, as a result of campus-wide conservation efforts and specific initiatives in its implementation plan."Bates College Achieves Carbon Neutral Status to Help Stave Off Climate Change," Lewiston Sun Journal, https://www.sunjournal.com/2019/05/16/bates-college-achieves-carbon-neutral-status-to-help-stave-off-climate-change/

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Bates College is governed by its central administration, headquartered in and metonymically known as "Lane Hall". Its current president is Garry Jenkins, who took office in July 2023. There have been nine presidents of Bates College, and one interim president.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/past-presidents/|title=Past Presidents – Bates College |website=bates.edu |date=2010-08-31 |access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/president/files/2013/11/Bylaws_Inside_2012-single_pages.pdf|title=Laws of the President and Trustees of Bates College |access-date=August 11, 2018}} There are 37 members on the Bates College board of trustees. The board chair is CEO of PineBridge Investments, Gregory Ehret ('81).{{cite web|url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2022/07/07/bates-college-board-of-trustees-elects-new-officers-and-new-members/|title=Bates College Board of Trustees elects new officers and new members|date=2022-07-07|language=en|access-date=2024-02-10}}

As a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, Bates is classified under section 501(c) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.(2019) As of June 30, 2019. {{cite web |url=https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2019-Endowment-Market-Values--Final-Feb-10.ashx |title=U.S. and Canadian 2019 NTSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2019 Endowment Market Value, and Percentage Change in Market Value from FY18 to FY19 (Revised) |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA |access-date=April 20, 2020}} The endowment surpasses the national average,{{Cite news|author=The Chronicle List|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Which-Colleges-Have-the/245587|title=Which Colleges Have the Largest Endowments?|date=January 31, 2019|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|access-date=April 20, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0009-5982}} yet has been seen as a laggard compared to its direct peers.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2013/03/the-truth-about-bates-endowment/|title=The truth about Bates' endowment|last=Sgarro|first=Katharine|date=March 6, 2013|website=thebatesstudent.com|access-date=August 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813042055/http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2013/03/the-truth-about-bates-endowment/|archive-date=August 13, 2018|url-status=dead}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://thebatesstudent.com/17686/news/bates-endowment-dominates-in-market-returns/|title=Bates Endowment Dominates in Market Returns|last=Bates College Investment Club|date=October 19, 2019|website=The Bates Student|access-date=April 20, 2020}} "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. During the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession, the college's endowment lost 31% of market value.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/past-presidents/bates-college-presidents/elaine-tuttle-hansen/2008y/current-economic-climate-and-bates/|title=Current Economic climate and Bates {{!}} Past Presidents {{!}} Bates College|website=bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The Bates endowment consistently outperformed peers in market returns, particularly against fellow NESCAC colleges and the Ivy League from 2010 to 2018. Its low endowment-to-student ratio increases the college's fee dependency, frequently making Bates one of the most expensive colleges to attend in the country.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-06-30/bates-charging-51-300-leads-most-expensive-u-s-colleges-list|title=Bates Charging $51,300 Leads Expensive U.S. Colleges List|last=Staley|first=Oliver|date=June 30, 2011|website=Bloomberg.com|access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/past-presidents/bates-college-presidents/elaine-tuttle-hansen/2009y/budget-faqs/|title=Budget FAQs {{!}} Past Presidents {{!}} Bates College |website=bates.edu|access-date=August 11, 2018}} The college raised around $300 million from 2017 to 2022 as part of a broader capital campaign.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/campaign/2017/05/16/bates-college-launches-300-million-campaign/|title=Historic $300 million Bates Campaign aims to 'secure what is best and most distinctive about Bates and to shape new strategies for a new age' May 16, 2017|website=bates.edu |date=2017-05-16 |access-date=August 11, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.pressherald.com/2017/05/16/maine-family-donating-50-million-to-bates-college/|title=Maine family gives $50 million 'transformational' gift to Bates College capital campaign – Portland Press Herald|last=Gallagher|first=Noel K.|date=May 16, 2017|website=Press Herald|access-date=August 11, 2018}}

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2014/01/tensions-fume-divestment-discussion/ |title=Tensions fume in divestment discussion {{!}} The Bates Student |last=Goldberg |first=Hannah |date=January 29, 2014 |website=thebatesstudent.com |access-date=August 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615032158/http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2014/01/tensions-fume-divestment-discussion/ |archive-date=June 15, 2018 |url-status=dead}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/president/2014/01/21/statement-on-climate-change-and-divestment/|title=President Clayton Spencer's statement on climate change and divestment|last=Clayton|first=Spencer|date=January 21, 2014|access-date=August 11, 2018}} 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:{{blockquote|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.}}

{{Main|List of Bates College people}}

File:Bryant Gumbel Peabody 2013 (cropped).jpg|Bryant Gumbel, journalist and sportswriter

File:Melcher.jpg|Holman Melcher, American military officer during the American Civil War

File:Frank Sandford.jpg|Frank Sandford, Christian cult leader

File:Benjamin Mays Portrait 1921.png|Benjamin Mays, civil rights leader

File:Robert Kinney official photo.jpg|E. Robert Kinney, former CEO of General Mills

File:Jared Golden 117th Congress portrait.jpeg|Jared Golden, U.S. Congressman

File:Portrait of Edmund Muskie, looking up.jpg|Edmund Muskie, former U.S. Secretary of State and U.S. Senator

File:GeorgeSHammond.png|George Hammond, scientist and theoretical chemist

File:Robert F Kennedy crop.jpg|Robert F. Kennedy, American politician and lawyer

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. Bates alumni, including faculty, include 86 Fulbright Scholars; 22 Watson Fellows;{{cite web |title=Watson Fellowship – Bates College |url=https://www.bates.edu/news/tag/watson-fellowship/ |access-date=June 1, 2018 |website=bates.edu}} 5 Rhodes Scholars;{{Cite web |title=Rhodes Institution Winners: Bates College |url=http://www.rhodesscholar.org/docs/Institutions_for_Website_6_29_10.pdf |access-date=June 1, 2018}} as well as 12 members of the U.S. Congress;{{#tag:ref|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):{{Cite news|url=http://www.bates.edu/news/2018/11/09/ben-cline-94-wins-u-s-house-seat-jared-golden-11-awaits-historic-decision/|title=Ben Cline '94 wins U.S. House seat; Jared Golden '11 awaits historic decision|last=Burns|first=Jay|date=November 11, 2018|work=Bates Magazine|access-date=November 14, 2018|language=en}}

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.{{cite book |title=The Architecture of Bates College |last=Stuan|first=Thomas |publisher=Bates College |year=2006 |location=Ladd Library, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine |pages=19}}|group="nb"}} 7 Emmy Award winners; 5 Pulitzer Prize winners;{{Cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-categories |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108143322/http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-categories |archive-date=January 8, 2016 |access-date=June 1, 2018 |website=pulitzer.org}} and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

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),{{Cite book |last=Association |first=Illinois Education |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H86gAAAAMAAJ |title=Annual Meeting |date=August 11, 2018 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=I. |first=P. |date=January 1, 1976 |title=Frank Haven Hall (1843–1911) A Biographical Sketch |url=https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/frank-haven-hall-1843-1911-a-biographical-sketch-KedLwVFmXm |url-status=dead |journal=Journal of Special Education |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=120 |doi=10.1177/002246697601000201 |issn=0022-4669 |s2cid=220318318 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813005809/https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/frank-haven-hall-1843-1911-a-biographical-sketch-KedLwVFmXm |archive-date=2018-08-13 |access-date=2018-12-14}} "The Kingdom" (Frank Sandford),{{cite web |author=Shirley Nelson |title=The Story of Shiloh |url=http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1901-2000/the-story-of-shiloh-11630697.html |access-date=August 14, 2017}} the American civil rights movement (Benjamin Mays),{{Cite web |date=2010-03-22 |title=Benjamin E. Mays {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/bates-greats/benjamin-e-mays/ |access-date=August 11, 2018 |website=bates.edu}} basketball's fast break (Frank Keaney),{{cite web |author=James Karsten |date=October 8, 2014 |title=Top 10 Bates Athletes: #7 Frank Keaney '11 |url=http://www.thebatesstudent.com/2014/10/top-10-bates-athletes-7/ |access-date=August 14, 2017 |work=The Bates Student |publisher=Bates College}} the Boston Red Sox (Harry Lord, Charles Small), the fractional quantum Hall effect (Steven Girvin),{{Cite web |title=Steven Girvin – Office of the Provost |url=http://provost.yale.edu/who-we-are/steven-girvi |access-date=2016-06-12 |website=provost.yale.edu |quote=holds a B.S. degree from Bates College}} and organic photochemistry (George Hammond).{{cite book |last1=Anslyn |first1=Eric V. |title=Modern Physical Organic Chemistry |last2=Dougherty |first2=Dennis A. |publisher=University Science |year=2006 |location=Sausalito, California}}

In national and international government, alumni of the college include the 58th U.S. Secretary of State, Edmund Muskie (1936),{{Cite book |last=Nevin |first=David |title=Muskie of Maine |publisher=Random House, New York |year=1970 |location=Ladd Library, Bates College |pages=99 |quote=... a man many deemed to be the single-most influential figure in Maine}} U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (1944), 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). 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),{{Cite web |date=2010-03-22 |title=Chapter 2 {{!}} 150 Years {{!}} Bates College |url=http://www.bates.edu/150-years/history/progressive-tradition/chapter-2/ |access-date=August 11, 2018 |website=bates.edu}} as well as Medal of Honor recipients Frederick Hayes (1861), Josiah Chase (1861), Joseph F. Warren (1862), Lewis Millet (1943),{{Cite web |last=ARNEWS |first=25th ID and |title=Hero who led last major U.S. bayonet charge dies {{!}} Article {{!}} The United States Army |url=https://www.army.mil/article/30673/hero-who-led-last-major-us-bayonet-charge-dies/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150125005403/http://www.army.mil/article/30673/hero-who-led-last-major-us-bayonet-charge-dies |archive-date=2015-01-25 |access-date=August 11, 2018 |website=army.mil}} Aaron Daggett (1860), and James Porter (1863).{{Cite book |last=Ellis |first=William Arba |url=https://archive.org/details/norwichuniversi00dodggoog |title=Norwich University, 1819-1911: Her History, Her Graduates, Her Roll of Honor |date=1911 |publisher=Capital City Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/norwichuniversi00dodggoog/page/n143 111] |language=en |quote=james porter custer seminary.}}

Bates alumni in business, finance, and economics include General Mills CEO Robert Kinney (1939),{{cite news |date=December 2, 2008 |title=Robert Kinney '39 awarded Mays Medal at Benjamin Bates Society meeting |publisher=Bates College |url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2008/12/02/robert-kinney-39-awarded-mays-medal-at-benjamin-bates-society-meeting/ |access-date=August 14, 2017}} Fidelity Fund managing director Barry Greenfield (1956),{{Cite web |date=2010-04-21 |title=Stay in the Game {{!}} Bates Magazine {{!}} Bates College July 17, 2004 |url=http://www.bates.edu/magazine/back-issues/y2004/fallwinter04/features/stay-in-the-game/ |access-date=August 11, 2018 |website=bates.edu}} Analysis Group founder Bruce Stangle (1970), Merrill Lynch CFO Joseph Willett (1973),{{cite web |date=April 7, 2007 |title=Joseph T. Willett '73 |url=http://www.bates.edu/x59919.xml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070407134031/http://www.bates.edu/x59919.xml |archive-date=April 7, 2007 |access-date=May 25, 2016 |publisher=Bates College}} Japonica Partners CEO Paul Kazarian (1978),{{Cite web |title=Paul B. Kazarian: Executive Profile & Biography – Businessweek |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/Research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=74155&privcapId=21255&previousCapId=21255&previousTitle=Japonica%2520Partners |access-date=August 11, 2018 |website=bloomberg.com}} L Catterton CEO Michael Chu (1980),{{cite web |title=J. Michael Chu: Executive Profile & Biography |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=75940&privcapId=19535 |access-date=August 14, 2017 |work=Businessweek |publisher=Bloomberg L.P.}} Cubist Pharmaceuticals CEO Michael Bonney (1980),{{cite news |date=January 19, 2012 |title=Bates board chair Bonney '80 named a top U.S. CEO by MarketWatch |publisher=Bates College |url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2012/01/19/marketwatch-bonney-80-top-ceo/ |access-date=August 14, 2017}} National Bank of Canada CEO Louis Vachon (1983),{{Cite web |date=November 5, 2011 |title=CEO of the Year 2014: Louis Vachon of National Bank |url=https://www.canadianbusiness.com/leadership/ceo-of-the-year/2014-louis-vachon-national-bank/ |access-date=December 8, 2020 |website=Canadian Business – Your Source For Business News |language=en-US}} and Affiliated Managers Group CFO Darrell Crate (1989).{{cite news |date=October 28, 2013 |title=$11.5 million Catalyst Fund will support 'transformational change' at Bates College |publisher=Bates College |url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2013/10/28/catalyst-fund-transformational-change/ |access-date=August 14, 2017}} In literature, music, journalism, television, and film, the following attended Bates: actors Jeffery Lynn (1930), John Shea (1970),{{Cite web |date=2007-06-21 |title=Stages of Shea {{!}} Bates Magazine {{!}} Bates College |url=http://www.bates.edu/magazine/back-issues/y2007/summer07/features/stages-of-shea/ |access-date=August 11, 2018 |website=bates.edu}} Maria Bamford (1990–92),{{cite news |author=Sara Corbett |date=July 17, 2014 |title=The Weird, Scary and Ingenious Brain of Maria Bamford |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/magazine/the-weird-scary-and-ingenious-brain-of-maria-bamford.html |access-date=August 14, 2017 |issn=0362-4331}} Bryant Gumbel (1970),{{cite web |author=Rick Reilly |date=August 26, 2014 |title=The Mourning Anchor: Bryant Gumbel is alone at the top with the memory of his late father |url=https://www.si.com/more-sports/2014/08/25/si-60-mourning-anchor-rick-reilly-bryant-gumbel-olympics |access-date=August 14, 2017 |publisher=Sports Illustrated}} writers Jeffrey K. Tulis (1972),{{cite web |date=2015-10-08 |title=Sesquicentennial Award |url=https://www.bates.edu/alumni/sesquicentennial-award/}} Elizabeth Strout (1977),{{cite web |author=Carrie Tuhy |date=December 4, 2015 |title=Pulitzer-Winner Elizabeth Strout Takes on the Mother-Daughter Bond |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/68854-pulitzer-winner-elizabeth-strout-takes-on-the-mother-daughter-bond.html |access-date=August 14, 2017 |publisher=Publishers Weekly}} Lisa Genova (1992),{{Cite web |date=2012-01-24 |title=Genova '92, best-selling author of 'Still Alice,' 'Left Neglected,' to speak |url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2012/01/24/genova-92collegekey/ |access-date=August 11, 2018 |website=bates.edu}} and Brian McGrory (1984){{cite news |author=Jay Burns |date=February 25, 2013 |title=Media describe arc of newspaperman Brian McGrory '84, new Boston Globe editor |publisher=Bates College |url=https://www.bates.edu/news/2013/02/25/media-coverage-mcgrory-84-named-editor-of-the-boston-globe/ |access-date=August 14, 2017}} and musician Corey Harris (1991).{{Cite web |date=2010-04-26 |title=Corey Harris '91 {{!}} Commencement 2021 {{!}} Bates College |url=https://www.bates.edu/commencement/annual/y2007/who-are-the-honorands/corey-harris-91/ |access-date=2021-07-29 |language=en}} 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).{{Cite web |title=Bobcat Olympians {{!}} Athletics {{!}} Bates College |url=http://athletics.bates.edu/bobcat-olympians |access-date=August 11, 2018 |website=athletics.bates.edu}}

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