Stories about "Commencement 2022"
Picture story: Baccalaureate for the Bates Class of 2022
Friday, June 3, 2022 2:27 pm
Held the day before Commencement, Baccalaureate offers a time to pause and reflect, to remember and rejoice, being fully present to those around us.
Picture story: It was the Friday before Commencement…
Friday, June 3, 2022 2:24 pm
Photographs of honors, inductions, traditions, and bravos on the Friday before Commencement 2022 at Bates College illustrate the sweet intensity of it all.
Video: Highlights from Commencement 2022 and the march of the seniors
Friday, June 3, 2022 11:29 am
From last-minute fit adjustments, to photos with staff and faculty on Alumni Walk and the joyous cap-toss, highlights from the Class of 2022's big day.
Video: Dr. Nirav Shah’s 2022 Commencement Address
Friday, June 3, 2022 11:19 am
Text and video of the witty, warm, and insightful 2022 Commencement Address by Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control.
Slideshow: Hour by hour with the Bates Class of 2022 on Commencement day
Friday, June 3, 2022 10:00 am
From just after 7 a.m. to just after noontime, follow along as Bates gave the Class of 2022 a long, last embrace.
Slideshow: Bates Class of 2022 caps off graduation with creative mortarboard art
Thursday, June 2, 2022 11:37 am
With a nod to the past and a look to the future, the Class of 2022 marched through Commencement in style — with a few personal touches.
‘Be someone who builds trust,’ Dr. Nirav Shah tells seniors at 156th Bates College Commencement
Sunday, May 29, 2022 2:09 pm
“We treat those with different beliefs not just as incorrect, but as ignorant," said Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and a luminary in the state’s COVID-19 response. "Don't do that," he told the seniors. Instead, "be someone who builds trust."
Commencement 2022 honorary degree citations
Sunday, May 29, 2022 12:54 pm
Honorary degree citations for Michael W. Bonney '80, Nikki Giovanni, Becca Stevens, and Dr. Nirav Shah, presented at Bates Commencement on May 22, 2022.
Video: Class of 2022 arrives for their class photo at Garcelon
Friday, May 27, 2022 3:49 pm
The Class of 2022 gathered this morning for their senior photo at Garcelon Field. Aside from a round of good-humored booing, all went well.
Q&A: Commencement senior speaker learned to plant seeds of her own confidence
Thursday, May 26, 2022 6:05 pm
Senior speaker at Commencement on Sunday, Teresa Chico '22 talks about her experience as a first-gen student, how she's like a certain plant, and why she claps really loud when a cup is dropped in Commons.