Lane Hall
Lane Hall is a later 20th-century neoclassical building serving as the principal workplace and headquarters of the central administration of Bates College, located at 2 Andrews Road in Lewiston, Maine.[1] It has been the principle administrative headquarters of every Bates president since Thomas Hedley Reynolds in 1964. Lane Hall was named after George Lane Jr., who served as treasurer of the college and secretary of the corporation.[1]
This article is about the central administration and hall of Bates College. For the Virginia Tech building, see Campus of Virginia Tech.Lane Hall
metonymically as the academic administration of Bates College
Active and operational
Lewiston, Maine, U.S.
1963
1964
29,000 square feet
4
The building name, Lane Hall is used to refer metonymically to the central administration of Bates College.[a] The board of trustees combined with the office of the presidency create the Bates College Corporation, the highest level of authority for the college and its extended domains. The members of the board of trustees, central administration, and the president are afforded certain and selected powers, privileges, rights and immunities through the laws of the president and trustees of Bates College, the highest ranking document in the Corporation of Bates College.
The hall, often confused with the official residence of the president, provides no residential space for any executive offices. The president is afforded the President's House as an official residence. Lane Hall has no specific security detail but is under the security protection of the college's security units and the Lewiston Police Department. Lane Hall is by Hathorn Hall to the south and to the North flanked by Parker Hall and Dana Chemistry Hall. It is adjacent to Pettigrew Hall and Pettengill Hall. Lane overlooks the Historic Quadrangle of the college and protrudes from Lake Andrews.[2]
President of Bates College
(Madam/Mister) President
President of the Trustees
Trustee
Chief Executive
Central administration
Board of Trustees
Executive Committee
Bates College Corporation
Faculty of Bates College
Lewiston, Maine, U.S.
Board of Trustees of Bates College
At Trustees' Pleasure
Continuously renewable
The Laws of the President and Trustees of Bates College
Oren Burbank Cheney
March 16, 1855
March 16, 1855
$465,000 annually
Corporation of the college[edit]
With the office of the presidency, the board of trustees completes the Bates College Corporation which is given the right to adopt new rules, bylaws, and regulations as long as they stay within the jurisdiction of the legal system of the state of Maine. It is held directly responsible for the actions of the college with regard to finance and economic expenditure.[12] The corporation as a whole may establish new departments, majors, as well as schools within the college itself. It also reserves the right to hire and terminate professors, administrators, and staff. The employees of the college may be removed at any time, even faculty with academic tenure, if contractual destinations are faulted on or in any way disbanded.[12] The Corporation also has the exclusive rights to establish the conferring of academic degrees. The members of the board of trustees, central administration, and the president are afforded certain and selected powers, privileges, rights and immunities through the laws of the president and trustees of Bates College, the highest ranking document in the corporation of the college.[12] The corporation is to convene annually prior to the college's commencement in May to discuss the academic structuring of the following academic and calendar year.
The central administration of Bates sanctions five giving and participant societies. They are, in alphabetical order;[18]