CONTENTS Highlights of 1998-99 Major Goals The Vision for Bates -- 15 Priorities for 2005 A Tour of Bates in 2005 Statistical Review of Bates College Board of Trustees

The Vision For Bates

Bates will be understood and valued as a learning community of distinction and excellence - providing leadership as one of the nation's finest undergraduate colleges.

• Bates will emphasize academic rigor and achievement, an active faculty of teacher/scholars, superb programs, high expectations of those who participate, the centrality of individual responsibility for learning, and the dignity and value of difference.

• Bates will strengthen and build on its persisting ethos and culture of engagement, as it encourages actions that will further civility, trust, responsibility, and service.

• The College will develop the connections and integrating cohesion that give flexibility and vitality to the educational opportunities that it provides -- local, global, academic, cocurricular, and life enduring.

• Bates will be organized as a flexible, principled residential community, valuing individuals and their interactions while celebrating their common purpose and the connections of the College community to the local area and to the world beyond.

In each annual report of the last three years, we have presented a Goals 2005 update and discussion. In last year's report, we outlined a set of 15 priorities for Bates that will help us implement the Vision for Bates in the coming years.

This year, as a way to illustrate how the Vision for Bates informs both our short- and long-range planning, we offer a two-part Goals 2005 report. The first part highlights the College's specific, tangible goals for the 1998-99 academic year - projects and priorities on the table for the many departments of the College. The second part of this year's report is less specific, more imaginary, and more forward-looking -- a tour, a speculative encounter with the College in 2005.

Whether we discuss goals of the current academic year or muse about Bates in 2005, our planning has reconciled firm knowledge and appreciation for what Bates has been with what the College can be in the coming millennium. We have also reconciled Bates' internal mission with the outside world, forging a vision for the College and priorities for the coming years.

Your participation in our work is important and always welcome. Your thoughts and suggestions are appreciated as we engage one another in conversations that are central to the College and its future.

Thank you for your interest and involvement,

Donald W. Harward

President and Convener of the
Goals 2005 Steering Committee

 

Goals 2005 Steering Committee
Weston L. Bonney '50 Trustee Emeritus F. Celeste Branham Dean of Students James W. Carignan '61 Dean of the College Victoria M. Devlin Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Peter C. Fackler Vice President for Financial Affairs and Treasurer James C. Fergerson Director of Institional Planning and Analysis		David C. Haines Professor of Mathematics William C. Hiss '66 Vice President for Administrative Services Laura W. Iverson '01 Student David A. Kolb Dana Professor of Philosophy Ann B. Scott Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty Paul K. Wason '76 Foundation and Corporations Officer

 

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