Bates College Gets $1M for Research Sabbaticals

LEWISTON – Bates College has been awarded $1 million to enhance the integration of scholarship and research into the lives of the college’s 180 faculty members.

The grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City will be used specifically to support yearlong sabbaticals for research.

This is the third grant overall, and the second from Mellon, that Bates has received for faculty support since the start of the academic year. The Mellon Foundation last fall awarded Bates a three- year, $450,000 grant to support faculty in the implementation of a new general education curriculum, new resources for faculty scholarship and research, and the infusion of diversity into the overall academic program.

Also last fall, the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation of New York City invited Bates to participate in a program to provide yearlong sabbaticals to pre-tenure faculty in the humanities who have demonstrated that they are outstanding teachers. A Whiting Teaching Fellowship will be awarded to one faculty member a year for the next four years.

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