Bates College
Bates College (/beɪts/)[6] is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals 813 acres (329 ha). It maintains 600 acres (240 ha) of nature preserve known as the "Bates-Morse Mountain" near Campbell Island and a coastal center on Atkins Bay.
For the law school formerly known as Bates College of Law, see University of Houston Law Center.
Former name
Maine State Seminary (1855–1863)
Amore Ac Studio (Latin)
With Ardor and Devotion by Charles Sumner
March 16, 1855[nb 1]
$418 million (2022)[1]
$119.8 million (2018–19)
John Gillespie
Garry Jenkins[2]
190 (2017–18)[3]
1,821 (2022)[4]
Main campus: 133 acres
Bates Mountain: 600 acres
Coastal Center: 80 acres
Total holdings: 813 acres
- Division III – NESCAC
- Division I – CSA
- Division I – EISA
- NEISA
Bates provides undergraduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, as well as offering joint undergraduate programs. A baccalaureate college, the undergraduate program requires all students to complete a thesis before graduation, and has a privately funded research enterprise. In addition to being a part of the "Maine Big Three", Bates competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) with 31 varsity teams, and 13 club teams.
The Bates athletic program has graduated 12 Olympians and 209 All-Americans and maintains 32 varsity sports, which compete in NCAA Division III and two in Division I.
Admissions statistics
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Bates alumni have included leaders in science, religion, politics, the Peace Corps, medicine, law, education, communications, and business; and acclaimed actors, architects, artists, astronauts, engineers, human rights activists, inventors, musicians, philanthropists, and writers. As of 2015, there are 24,000 Bates College alumni.[65] Bates alumni, including faculty, include 86 Fulbright Scholars;[210] 22 Watson Fellows;[211] 5 Rhodes Scholars;[212] as well as 12 members of the U.S. Congress;[nb 2] 7 Emmy Award winners; 5 Pulitzer Prize winners;[216] and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
The college is associated, through alumni and academic staff, with the following intellectual, scientific, and social contributions to human advancement, including laying the foundations of braille typography (Frank Haven Hall),[217][218] "The Kingdom" (Frank Sandford),[219] the American civil rights movement (Benjamin Mays),[220] basketball's fast break (Frank Keaney),[221] the Boston Red Sox (Harry Lord, Charles Small),[25][24] the fractional quantum Hall effect (Steven Girvin),[222] and organic photochemistry (George Hammond).[223]
In national and international government, alumni of the college include the 58th U.S. Secretary of State, Edmund Muskie (1936),[224] U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (1944),[32] and Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States John F. Davis (1928). As of November 2018, the college has had 12 United States Congress members among its alumni: John Swasey (1859), Daniel McGillicuddy (1881), Carroll Beedy (1903), Charles Clason (1911), Donald Partridge (1914), Edmund Muskie (1936), Frank Coffin (1940), Robert F. Kennedy (1944), Leo Ryan (1944), Bob Goodlatte (1974), Ben Cline (1994), and Jared Golden (2011).[213][214] In state government, Bates alumni have led all three political branches in Maine, graduating two Chief Justices of the Maine Supreme Court, two Maine Governors, and multiple leaders of both state houses. Notable military people include Brevet Major Holman Melcher (1862),[225] as well as Medal of Honor recipients Frederick Hayes (1861), Josiah Chase (1861), Joseph F. Warren (1862), Lewis Millet (1943),[226] Aaron Daggett (1860), and James Porter (1863).[227]
Bates alumni in business, finance, and economics include General Mills CEO Robert Kinney (1939),[228] Fidelity Fund managing director Barry Greenfield (1956),[229] Analysis Group founder Bruce Stangle (1970), Merrill Lynch CFO Joseph Willett (1973),[230] Japonica Partners CEO Paul Kazarian (1978),[231] L Catterton CEO Michael Chu (1980),[232] Cubist Pharmaceuticals CEO Michael Bonney (1980),[233] National Bank of Canada CEO Louis Vachon (1983),[234] and Affiliated Managers Group CFO Darrell Crate (1989).[235] In literature, music, journalism, television, and film, the following attended Bates: actors Jeffery Lynn (1930), John Shea (1970),[236] Maria Bamford (1990–92),[237] Bryant Gumbel (1970),[238] writers Jeffrey K. Tulis (1972),[239] Elizabeth Strout (1977),[240] Lisa Genova (1992),[241] and Brian McGrory (1984)[242] and musician Corey Harris (1991).[243] Bates counts 12 Olympian alumni: Vaughn Blanchard (1912), Harlan Holden (1913), Ray Buker (1922), Art Sager (1926), Arnold Adams (1933), Nancy Fiddler (1978), Mike Ferry (1997), Justin Freeman (1998), Andrew Byrnes (2005), Hayley Johnson (2006), Emily Bamford (2015), and Dinos Lefkaritis (2019).[244]
