CONTENTS Welcome 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

What will Bates look like and feel like in 2005?

Over the last three years, the Goals 2005 initiative has developed a four-part Vision for Bates and 15 supporting prioities as the College approaches its sesquicentennial in 2005. Those priorities for 2005 are as follows:

Fifteen Priorities for 2005

1. Achieve the highest levels of rigorous learning and teaching; put student responsibility more at the center, and encourage the engagement of teacher and learner.

2. Support additional connections of research to teaching, as well as the value of research by faculty members and by students.

3. Develop and support linkages among disciplines, as well as among models of teaching, without devaluing or diminishing the importance of the disciplines or the contributions of scholarship.

4. Enhance learning and teaching by extending the traditional classroom, both on and off campus; create greater flexibility in the calendar, in new venues for learning, and in collaboration among institutions.

5. Identify and recruit a student population that will have the highest levels of potential for achievement.

6. Develop and support greater international educational experiences, on campus and beyond, confirming the connection of learning and working in a global context.

7. Develop new structures and alignment of College resources that allow students more control over their experiences at Bates.

8. Reinforce the implicit covenants that bind the community; seek to understand and strengthen connections that honor civility, service, collegiality, social justice, and community trust.

9. Confirm diversity as a College priority both by valuing the increased diversity of our students, faculty, and staff, as well as through the emphases expressed by the College's programs and curriculum.

10. Provide spaces and facilities that strengthen the connectedness of learning, student and faculty interaction, and reinforce the culture of equal access and use.

11. Reinforce a work ethic among College employees that values flexibility, cooperation, experimentation and positive responsiveness to change, as well as supports the development of professional advancement.

12. Envision learning as continuous and cumulative, connecting experiences at the College with those both before and after Bates.

13. Create adequate resources to accomplish Bates' excellences; creatively and positively manage finances, resources, facilities and environment.

14. Collaborate with the local community in ways that both serve the College's mission and recognize the reciprocity with the external community of obligations and opportunities.

15. Identify, express, and strengthen those aspects of Bates that are exemplary of its leadership and distinctiveness among the nation's finest colleges.

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