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Commencement 2025 Archives

January 15, 2024

Celebrate With Bobcat Lawn Signs

Want to show your Bobcat pride? Download one of our printable PDFs.

January 9, 2024

FAQs: What to expect for Commencement 2024

We are looking forward to welcoming Bates families and friends to campus in May to celebrate the Class of 2024. We will continue to update this website as more details are confirmed.

November 15, 2024

Our top 10 Bobcat sportraits from fall 2024

"Sportraits" is a portmanteau of the words "sports" and "portrait," and as you can see in this photo story, they're as inventive as the word itself. They're funtastic. Or funthusiastic?

November 15, 2024

Veterans Day at Bates, and thoughts from a Bates combat veter…

We caught up with Army veteran Joe Castonguay after Veterans Day, on a sunny morning when he and his grounds crew team were clearing leaves outside Rand Hall.

November 15, 2024

25 items (or 62, depending your count) in the Bates library’s…

The sweetest lost item was a greeting card with the quote “Etre avec des gens qu'on aime cela suffit” (“Being with people you love, that’s enough”) from a grandfather to his Bates grandson in his first week on campus.