Empowering the Bates Academic Experience Through Endowed Funds

Bates relies on the generosity of its community to build a strong foundation for its transformative academic experience through endowed funds. These permanent resources provide consistent and crucial resources that directly enhance the learning environment for our students and faculty.

By supporting faculty development, enabling innovative research, expanding access to resources like the library and technology, and fostering enriching co-curricular activities, these endowments ensure that Bates continues to offer a challenging, engaging, and ultimately empowering education for generations to come.

Ways to Support the Bates Academic Experience

The Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning

The new Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning (CITL) at Bates aims to revolutionize education by empowering faculty to develop innovative and inclusive teaching methods. Rooted in the college’s dedication to academic rigor and the value of diversity, the CITL will ensure all students, across all disciplines, benefit from exceptional and equitable learning experiences.

Bates Center for Purposeful Work

Purposeful Work helps students explore their values, interests, and strengths to align who they are with what they do. The four-year developmental approach of Purposeful Work delivers guidance and programs across the student experience that are integral to student success in life after graduation.

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