Harward Center Archives

February 21, 2025

Not All Sunshine and Roses: A Bates Journey

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Amanda Brea, a former Harward Center Bonner Leader who graduated from Bates in…

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February 8, 2025

A Pedagogy of Love

Last year, Bates faculty member Brian J. Evans (Theater and Dance, Africana Studies) taught a First Year Seminar entitled “Embodied…

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January 26, 2025

MLK Day at Bates: Learning, Connection, and Dialogue Across Difference

MLK Day at Bates is a community-wide opportunity to discuss, teach, and reflect on the legacy of civil rights in…

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January 5, 2025

Bates Students Can Hack It!

Amidst the last week of classes in December, fifteen students committed their unscheduled time for 48 hours to the final…

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November 17, 2024

Come As You Are

Through the course-based community-engaged learning (CEL) program facilitated by the Harward Center, more than 1,000 Bates students annually spend time…

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November 3, 2024

Visual Explorations: Voter Suppression, Then and Now

In this semester’s “Visual Meaning: Process, Material, Format” course, professor Michel Droge is inviting students who are serious about making…

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October 19, 2024

Ka Bogso (Be Healed)

In this week’s blog post we lift up a recent article in the Bates student newspaper about an exciting community-engaged…

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October 5, 2024

Bates is ALL IN!

In light of the upcoming election in November, we are pleased to share that the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge…

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September 22, 2024

From Participant to CEO

As a Bates student, Rodney Galvao, class of 2014, majored in Rhetoric and minored in Religious Studies and Education. His…

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September 2, 2024

Happy New (school) Year!

Bates people tend to do a double-take when I greet them at this time of year with a peppy “Happy…

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