Job market shows signs of improvement for Class of 2021

Bates College

Published
May 9, 2021

Job market shows signs of improvement for Class of 2021

The hiring outlook is better than last year, but the job search process has changed and new graduates are preparing to step into workplaces that still look different due to the pandemic.
Published
May 7, 2021

Several hundred students gather at Bates to call for defunding campus security

The students pleaded with Bates College to transform its Campus Safety Department.
Published
May 6, 2021

Bates students seek ‘to defund and disarm’ campus security officers

A Friday rally aims to push college administrators to go further than this week's decision to take away the batons carried by otherwise unarmed security personnel.
Published
May 1, 2021

Lewiston High School tutoring program wins statewide award

The partnership with Bates College was recognized this week by the Maine Campus Compact.
Published
April 30, 2021

Photo: Bonney Science Center nears completion

A panoramic view of the new dorms and nearly completed Bonney Science Center at Bates College in Lewiston.
Published
April 28, 2021

Bates College fires a top campus safety officer for violating use-of-force policies

Lead Campus Safety Officer Dennis Skinner, who was fired for an incident in which he tackled a student, said he didn't try to restrain that student until he pushed him.
Published
April 25, 2021

Noted Peaks Island photographer Arthur J. Fink dies at 74

He had an enduring connection to the Bates Dance Festival, where he served as resident photographer from 2005 through 2017.
Published
April 15, 2021

More cases, fewer vaccinations leave Androscoggin County as a COVID-19 hotspot in Maine

Androscoggin County posted its third-highest daily total of cases on Thursday, its worst showing since January.
Published
April 13, 2021

Bates College lifts its lockdown after 12 days

With COVID-19 cases declining among its students, Bates Tuesday lifted a lockdown that it imposed April 1 to stop a serious outbreak.
Published
April 8, 2021

Bates extends lockdown two more days to stop COVID-19 spread

Students will have been kept mostly in their rooms for at least 12 days. to fight against 'relatively large outbreak.'