Staff
Tom McGuinness, Ph.D.
Director
Phone: (207) 786-8210
Email: tmcguinn@bates.edu
Office: Lane Hall 101
Tom earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Boston College and master’s and doctoral degrees in Higher Education from Harvard University and the University of Michigan, respectively.
Andrea Gager, R.N., Ph.D.
Associate Director
Phone: (207) 786-8211
Email: agager@bates.edu
Office: Lane Hall 101
Dre earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Barnard College and master’s and Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. She also has an associate’s degree in nursing from the Jefferson School of Nursing.
Erika (Kika) Stump, Ph.D.
Assistant Director
Phone: (207) 786-8220
Email: estump@bates.edu
Office: Lane Hall 103
Kika holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Wesleyan University, a master’s in Teaching and Learning from the University of Southern Maine, as well as a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Muskie School of Public Service, also at the University of Southern Maine. Kika’s work includes the perspective of her identities as a Cisgender Female, White, Continuing Generation woman who has over 25 years of experience working in higher education and K-12 schools as an educator, policy analyst, researcher, program evaluator and student advocate. She acknowledges that she lives and works on the hereditary homelands of the Wabanaki Confederacy (Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Arosaguntacook, Wolastokuk, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Nanrantsouak, Aucocisco and Pequawket).