Stories about "Class of 2025"

Video: Exploring, connecting, and a new definition of ‘outdoors’ for Bates AESOP
Thursday, September 9, 2021 12:44 pm
New-student Orientation programs are usually all about the great outdoors — mountains, rivers, and everything in between. This year, the student leaders of the Bates program brainstormed an eclectic array of new trips to broaden the program's appeal.

Picture story: Convocation and Memorial Tree Planting at Bates College
Friday, September 3, 2021 1:01 pm
Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen of two academic rituals of a new academic year, Convocation and the Memorial Tree Planting, on Aug. 31, 2021.

10 pieces of advice, for all of us, from a wisdom-filled Bates College Convocation
Friday, September 3, 2021 11:53 am
Convocation and Commencement bookend the year with a similar look and feel. Similar, too, in offering sound advice, useful to far more than first years.

Video: ‘Overwhelming, but a good time’ as students welcome students on Bates’ Opening Day
Friday, September 3, 2021 11:29 am
A few Junior Advisors and Residence Coordinators talk about the work to welcome the Class of 2025 and why they do it. "Because my experience as a first-year, being welcomed with open hands, inspired me," says Oliver Barrera '22.

Slideshow: 10 images from Opening Day
Friday, August 27, 2021 1:59 pm
The arrival of the Class of 2025 on Thursday was a crescendo moment. Indeed, the beat goes on.

Numbers, facts, and insights about the Class of 2025
Friday, August 20, 2021 1:55 pm
The 556 members of Class of 2025 are poised to arrive and move in on Aug. 26.

Q&A: Pandemic-driven Admission changes are ‘smart and long overdue’
Friday, August 20, 2021 11:50 am
With the Class of 2025 on the college’s doorstep, Dean of Admission Leigh Weisenburger talks about the implications of successfully recruiting and enrolling a new Bates class without ever leaving home.