Proceedings of college's diversity and demographics symposium available online

About 150 Bates faculty, staff, students, college Trustees and members of the local community attended and engaged in the presidential symposium A College for “Coming Time”: Diversity and Changing Demographics in Higher Education, convened by President Elaine Tuttle Hansen.

Symposium proceedings are now online, including:

• Welcoming remarks by President Hansen;
• Keynote presentation by Jamie P. Merisotis ’86, Trustee and president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy;
• Closing remarks by former president and CEO of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation Blenda J. Wilson;
• Symposium photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen.