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Bates College

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CAMPUS NAME AND ADDRESS

 

 

 

Bates College

2 Andrews Road

Lewiston, Maine 04240-6028

 

 

CAMPUS AT A GLANCE (brief description)

Bates College, a private, four-year liberal arts college, is dedicated to the principle of active engagement. A 10-1 student-faculty ratio makes possible close collaborations in classroom and laboratory, and the Bates learning experience is honed through seminars, research, service-learning, and the capstone of senior thesis. Typically, two-thirds of Bates' 1,700 students study abroad. Co-curricular life is rich: most students participate in club and varsity sports; many participate in performing arts; and almost all students participate in one of more than 90 student-run clubs or organizations. Alumni frequently cite the capacities they developed at Bates for critical assessment, analysis, expression, aesthetic sensibility and independent thought. About 40 percent of students participate in career internships, and more than two-thirds of recent graduates enroll in graduate study within 10 years after graduation. Bates was founded in 1855 by Maine abolitionists, and Bates graduates have always included men and women from diverse racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds.
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KEY FACTS

Location: Lewiston, Maine

Enrollment:  1714

Other interesting tidbits:

  • Holds the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement in both Curricular Engagement and Outreach and Partnerships.
  • Has no fraternities or sororities.
  • Was one of the first colleges/universities in the nation to stop requiring the SAT (in 1984).
  • Has an ice rink but no varsity hockey team.  Go figure.

 

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Name of Campus-Wide Center: Harward Center for Community Partnerships

Relevant website: http://www.bates.edu/harward-center.xml

 

Type of Program:  Bonner Leaders Program

Year Began: 2008-09

Bonner Program website: program description at the HCCP website: http://www.bates.edu/x202243.xml.

 

Number of Bonner Scholars/Leaders: 25

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 6

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award: 0

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: 9 students in summer 2011

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor: 0

 

KEY CONTACTS

President: Clayton Spencer

Center Director: Darby Ray

Bonner Director: Ellen Alcorn

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Stephanie Jefferson

Bonner Congress Representatives: Tenzin Namdol

 

MORE ABOUT US (our partners, trips, structure, best or unique practices)

Video: The Bonner Program at Bates

Video: A Passion for Community Service and Civic Engagement at Bates

 

The Harward Center for Community Partnerships supports:

  • the college's Academic Community-Based Learning Program;
  • Volunteerism and Student Leadership Development Program (including the Student Volunteer Fellows Program);
  • the Community-Based Research Fellows Program (funded through Learn and Serve, via the National CBR Network);
  • Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area;
  • Community Work-Study programming;
  • a range of fellowships and grant funds for students over the summer and during the academic year;
  • a host of grant programs for faculty and staff;
  • a student philanthropy fund for community partner agencies (the Carignan Fund)

 

Over half of Bates students engage in academic community-based learning or research during their career; two-thirds of Bates students engage in other community-based work.  For more information about our work, please click here: 

 

What did we do in 2012-2013?

In addition to completing service hours and participating in working groups, our team of 27 Bonners participated in regular reflection sessions as well as workshops on a wide variety of topics.  Each semester began with an orientation/reflection session, during which students built community, talked about issues related to their service, and volunteered with various organizations in the community. During our first orientation, students conducted a community-wide scavenger hunt designed to help first-years become comfortable in their new community as well as to bond with other Bonners.  During the year, workshops and trainings (many of them led by Bonner alums and seniors) specific to the Bonner program included: 

  •  Sessions on how to be an effective tutor mentor;
  •  Goal-setting workshops;
  •  A discussion about the ethics  involved in working with refugee and immigrant groups;
  •  An alumni panel entitled “The Path from Activism to Leadership: Through the Alumni Lens of Engagement;
  •  A workshop about healthy food accessibility for low-income Mainers;
  •  Sessions on grant-writing, fundraising, and financial planning; 
  • A workshop on how to set healthy boundaries in community-engaged work. 

 

Bonners were also encouraged to attend other talks, some of them sponsored by the Harward Center (including our Civic Forum and Public Works in Progress series).  Additionally, Bonners met twice a month, once in their class groups, and once for an all-Bonner session.  Our all-student sessions focused primarily on issues related to power and oppression.  Our year ended with a Bonner Senior Celebration, in which senior Bonners, their community partners and faculty members, and Harward Center staff had dinner, followed by an open session during which the senior Bonners took turns telling the stories of their Bonner journeys throughout their four years at Bates. 

 

PHOTOS

Feel free to upload photos, especially of events like Orientation, First Year Trip, Second Year Exchange, Congress Representatives and Senior Interns, Campus-Wide projects, or the Bonner community.  Provide brief captions if you can.

 

2011-2012 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

 

 

 

Student Leadership Plans

Click here for Student Leadership Plans:

Congress Action Planning

Serve 2.0

 

BWBRS

  • Using BWBRS 3.0: yes; Marty Deschaines (mdeschai@bates.edu) will oversee this next year.
  • See useful links:  BWBRS 3.0 Help Guide

 

Bonner AmeriCorps

  • Please list the contact information of the staff and student interns who manage your AmeriCorps Paperwork:   Marty Deschaines: mdeschai@bates.edu

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