BATES COLLEGE

Bates College is a coeducational, nonsectarian, nationally recognized residential college of the liberal arts and sciences in Lewiston, Maine... At Bates, community engagement is a prized institutional value. Since its founding in 1855, Bates has been committed to education as a means to individual and social transformation. As the college's current-day mission statement avows, a Bates education aspires to cultivate "informed civic action" and "responsible stewardship of the wider world." Toward this end, and with the support of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, Bates students, faculty, and staff enact the college's civic mission through reciprocal and sustained partnerships that connect the college and the community in mutually beneficial and transformative ways.

Primary location: Lewiston United States