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President

Employer
Bates College
Location
Lewiston, Maine
Salary
-
Date posted
Oct 26, 2022

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Position Type
Executive, Chancellors & Presidents
Employment Level
Executive
Employment Type
Full Time

PRESIDENT

BATES COLLEGE

Lewiston, Maine

 

Bates College, a historic, selective, residential liberal arts college, seeks its ninth president. Bates’ next president will be charged with leading the College through a critical moment in higher education, serving as an advocate for the value of a modern liberal arts education, ensuring the fiscal health and sustainability of the institution, and leveraging Bates’ strong foundation and passionate community to forge a bold vision for its future. The next president of Bates will inherit an ambitious and innovative institution poised for its next chapter, ever committed to its founding mission and ready to push itself in new ways to meet the challenges and opportunities of the present and future.

Founded in 1855 by abolitionist Freewill Baptists, Bates has been coeducational from its founding, and it has always welcomed students regardless of race and ethnicity. The College’s commitment to academic excellence, intellectual exploration, and engaged citizenship defines its character. Today, Bates is known for its rigorous and engaged liberal arts education that centers on deep and sustained interactions among students, faculty, and community; a commitment to opportunity and excellence that grows directly out of its history and mission and responds to contemporary geographic, demographic, and economic realities; and Purposeful Work, a program built on the premise that preparing students for lives of meaningful work lies at the heart of the liberal arts mission.

Bates seeks a president who will embrace its values and, in close collaboration with the College community, imagine and realize a future of even greater impact. The president must possess the qualities necessary to lead a close-knit community with a global reach. With broad intellectual curiosity, demonstrated commitment to diversity in all its forms, financial and fundraising acumen, and genuine interest in engaging directly with all of the College’s many constituencies (on campus and off), the successful candidate will be a skillful administrator capable of collaborative and decisive action and an authentic leader with the ability to build consensus.

Bates College has retained the national executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to assist in this search. All inquiries, nominations, referrals, and applications should be sent electronically and in confidence to:

Kate Barry, Partner

Karen McPhedran, Managing Associate

Miguel Santiago, Senior Associate

Isaacson, Miller

Boston, Massachusetts

https://www.imsearch.com/search-detail/8699 

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