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Bates College (/ b eɪ t s /) is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals 813 acres (329 ha). It maintains 600 acres (240 ha) of nature preserve known as the "Bates-Morse Mountain" near Campbell Island and a coastal center on Atkins Bay.
- History of Bates College - Wikipedia
The history of Bates College began shortly before Bates...
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Das Bates College ist eine 1855 von Oren B. Cheney...
- History of Bates College - Wikipedia
Das Bates College ist eine 1855 von Oren B. Cheney gegründete US-amerikanische Privatuniversität in Lewiston, Maine. Die Hochschule bietet ein Studium in den „Liberal Arts“; die Studenten erhalten nach vierjährigem Studium den Bakkalaureus-Abschluss. Im Herbst 2020 hatte das Bates College 1.876 Studierende und 201 Dozenten ...
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Relationship with Bowdoin
- Connection with Dartmouth
- Social Class and Rise of Elitism
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Antebellum origins
While attending Parsonsfield Seminary, a Freewill Baptist divinity school, Oren Burbank Cheney lamented the racial segregation and religious oppression that was embedded in American educational institutions. He subsequently sought to create an educational institution that catered to everyone that required it; and that it would take the form of a rigorous and academically prominent school. In 1836, Cheney enrolled in Dartmouth College (after briefly attending Brown), due to Dartmouth's signifi...
Maine State Seminary
The "Maine State Seminary" expanded to include liberal arts academics in 1855, making it one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Its founding made it the oldest coeducational college in the New England. Cheney met with religious and political leaders in Topsham, Maine, to discuss the formation of a school that catered to Free Will Baptists and was based on principles of egalitarianism, liberty, and scholarship. He began his speech by stating: The speech was well received...
American Civil War
During the American Civil War, Bates played an important role in advocating for the rights of African Americans. Many alumni fought or otherwise served in the Civil War. During this time, the Bates Board of Fellows was established. Notable members included U.S. Secretary of State, James Blaine and Governor of Maine, Nelson Dingley. With the commencement of the Civil War, Cheney was stirred and encouraged students to fight in the war as a test of their convictions. His bold and untraditional a...
1900–1920: Brooks Quimby Debate Council and the outing club
During the Chase presidency, the college's debate team, which dates to the beginning of the school, became intercollegiate and associated with the college's academic reputation. In 1920, the Bates Outing Club was founded and is one of the oldest collegiate outing clubs in the country, the first at a private college to include both men and women from inception, and one of the few outing clubs that remains entirely student run. The debate society of Bates College, the Brooks Quimby Debate Counc...
1940–1960: V-12, RFK, and CBB
During 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. It was during this time that future U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedyenrolled along with hundreds of other sailor-students. The c...
1970–1990s: secularization and campus growth
In 1967, President Thomas Hedley Reynolds promoted the idea of teacher-scholars at Bates and secured the construction of numerous academic and recreational buildings. Later that year the college would go on to establish its first formal central administration, headquartered in, and metonymically known as Lane Hall. Most notably, Reynolds was integral to the acquisition of the Bates-Morse Mountain. Under Reynolds, Bates ceased being identified with any particular religion. Although never a sec...
2002–2008: strained ties with Lewiston and campus expansion
Elaine Tuttle Hansen was installed as the seventh and first female president of Bates College on October 26, 2002, in Lewiston, Maine. Amid rising tensions between the Bates community and the city of Lewiston, the college released a message to the city outlining the college's impact in its development and historical significance. In a 2003 memo, Bates noted that the college's operating budget of $65 million, although originating outside of Maine, its expenditure was completely in-state. This...
2007-2012: financial crisis and endowment instability
During the 2007-08 financial crisis and subsequent recession, Hansen released the meeting notes from the October 2008 Board of Trustees meeting. The notes were anticipated by the students as many feared for the economic stability of the college's endowment (i.e. financial aid). In the note, Hansen outlined the current economic climate as being in a period of "declining markets, higher costs of borrowing, the potential impact on giving (i.e. fundraising, endowment spending, etc). Hansen mentio...
2012–2023: Spencer era
It was announced soon after that the Vice President of Institutional Policy of Harvard University, Clayton Spencer was to be appointed as her successor. On Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, Spencer assumed the presidency. Her subsequent inauguration speech, "Questions Worth Asking" drew 2,500 students, faculty, alumni, and distinguished members of the American collegiate educational system in Merrill Gymnasium. In February 2016, a gift of $19 million was given to Bates in support of the new academic pro...
From its inception, Bates served as an alternative to a more traditional and historically conservative Bowdoin College. There is a long tradition of rivalry and competitiveness between the two colleges, revolving around socioeconomic class, academic quality, and collegiate athletics. During the early years of the life of Bates, students at Bowdoin ...
Bates College has long had a nominal connection with Dartmouth in such that the founder of Bates graduated from Dartmouth and felt a "deep connection with the college, and was reported mediating near the grave of Eleazar Wheelock (its founder), on a weekly basis." The connection is reinforced through many parallels including the fact that many buil...
The college's early egalitarian policies were not universally popular, and some of the college's early faculty and students and detractors from Bowdoin and other colleges voiced concern over Bates' prestige when the first black and female students arrived in the 1850s and 1860s. The college, under the direction of Cheney, also rejected fraternities...
Bates College is a coeducational, nonsectarian, nationally recognized residential college of the liberal arts and sciences in Lewiston, Maine.
Vor 3 Tagen · Bates College is a leading liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine, with a history of openness and excellence. Learn about its distinctive features, academic programs, community partnerships, arts and athletics, and more.
A Brief Founding History. Bates campus in 1906. In the mid-19th century, Oren B. Cheney, a minister of the Freewill Baptist denomination in Maine, conceived the idea of founding a new school. The school was to be a seminary — a 19th-century term suggesting a “fitting school” for college — and received its charter from the Maine ...
Bates College is a private institution that was founded in 1855. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,790 (fall 2022), and the campus size is 133 acres. It utilizes a 4-4-1-based...
