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The Harward Center for Community Partnerships is the home of all things civic engagement at Bates Co

For many students, community engagement is an essential part of the educational experience at Bates. Each year one-third of Bates students take community-based learning courses that integrate community projects with academic learning. Bates was one of the first schools in the nation to receive the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Classification for both its curriculum and its outreach and partnership programs. Students pursue opportunities in community-based learning, volunteerism and environmental stewardship through the Harward Center for Community Partnerships. The center partners with over 100 community organizations, from schools and cultural institutions to nonprofit organizations. Students may apply for short- and long-term grants to pursue community-based research and work-study. Paid student volunteer fellows coordinate the Harward Center’s robust volunteer programs. Each year, two-thirds of Bates students work in the community, mentoring schoolchildren, planting community gardens, supporting seniors in assisted living, or monitoring invasive species.

09/22/2026

Prof. Stephanie Kelly-Romano’s First Year Seminar, Public Narratives: Addiction, Recovery, and Redemption, took part in a moving event last week called the Black Poster Project. The Black Poster Project seeks to bring awareness to and end the stigma of substance abuse by honoring the lives lost to the disease. A few students helped with set-up on Thursday, then the full class joined for the dedicated student day Friday wherein high schoolers and college students from all over the state came to see the posters.

Thank you to our long-time partners at Spurwink for helping us get involved with and experience the deep impact of The Black Poster Project 🖤.

📸 Stephanie Kelley Romano

09/15/2026

Last week, students from Prof. Anelise Shrout’s First Year Seminar “Haunted Houses: Telling Stories About the Past” visited a property they will be researching throughout the semester on behalf of Androscoggin Land Trust .

Bates alum Jane Bridgman Nurnberg ‘82 recently donated the house and surrounding land to ALT after it has been passed down through the women in the family all the way from the Revolutionary War Captains who settled the Town of Minot (then Bakerstown Plantation). Stay tuned for a future blog post to learn what the students uncover about this historic place!

09/10/2026

Thanks to our community partners and our students who came out to the Harward Center’s annual Volunteer Fair! Each year, this fair serves as a central place for our students to directly meet nonprofits and community partners, to ask questions and build connections.

Our raffle prize winners will be notified by email, so keep an eye out to see if you won a prize!

09/08/2026

The start of school is always a whirlwind, but the Harward Center captured a few highlights of our work supporting student civic leadership and off-campus community engagement! Bates students can learn more on how to get involved at tomorrow’s volunteer fair outside Commons from 4:30-6pm!

09/04/2026

Sunshine and good cheer at the Harward Center this afternoon, at our annual Open House! We’re excited to see so many students interested in getting engaged in our community!

06/30/2026

Thank you, partners! What a delight to share a gratitude lunch and conversation with many of the amazing people who helped educate Bates students in the past school year by inviting them to collaborate as researchers, volunteers, and work-study interns across multiple issue areas.

06/24/2026

Don’t let Friday’s forecast keep you at home!

Get down to Lewiston’s Lisbon Street for the 3:30 pm dedication of the amazing new Welcome Immigrants Mural at the corner of Ash and Lisbon, followed by an Art Walk Block Party from 5-8 pm featuring exhibitions, live painters and music, kid-friendly activities, food, and more. Many activities are already scheduled for indoor spaces (like the fabulous new exhibition in the LA Arts gallery, 168 Lisbon St.), and others will be relocated to the library’s Callahan Hall if it’s raining.

Lisbon Street will be hopping, so come on down this Friday!

05/28/2026

Over Short Term, the Harward Center joined our Community-Engaged Research Fellows in celebrating their thesis bindings! Big congratulations to our 2026 CERFs: Paige Bilich, Leah Belber, Catalina Passino, Madeleine Leger, Ariya Tayal, Katie Heumann, and Hope Stafford. 🎓🍾

04/27/2026

During the last week of classes the three classes of STEM Scholars showed a group of Lewiston Middle Schoolers what STEM is all about! From liquid nitrogen to color mixing and lots in between, there was plenty to learn and our Batesies were great teachers!

04/20/2026

Last week, Bates students celebrated the end of semester with their community partners sharing their findings for their collaborative research undertaken in Psychology 262: Community-Based Research Methods.

Address

161 Wood Street
Lewiston, ME
04240

Telephone

+12077866202

Website

http://www.bates.edu/harward

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