Stories about "presidential symposium"
Symposium explores promises, perils of ‘generation gap’ in tech, diversity
Friday, May 1, 2009 1:58 pm
"We're in the middle of a revolution," Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen said at midday on April 30, "and it's a hard place to see from."
Leading to change
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 3:27 pm
Shifting U.S. demographics intersect with Bates' forward-looking mission
With Justice for All in Our Multicultural Nation
Thursday, May 8, 2008 4:00 pm
Morris Dees, founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center, spoke on civil rights and multi-culturalism. (Total time: 1:07:42)
Proceedings of college's diversity and demographics symposium available online
Friday, June 15, 2007 11:25 am
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 on diversity and demographics at Bates May 10
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 11:05 am
A symposium titled "A College for Coming Time: Diversity and the Changing Demographics of Higher Education" on May 10 takes its title from early writings of Bates founder Oren B. Cheney, who envisioned a new institution of learning to serve those who did not have easy access to higher education.