{"id":3781,"date":"2023-06-15T10:28:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/?page_id=3781"},"modified":"2023-06-15T12:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:30:03","slug":"admission-and-student-financial-services-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/admission-and-student-financial-services-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Admission and Student Financial Services Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opening its doors in 1855, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ is New England\u2019s first co-educational college. Since our founding, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ has sought \u2013 and continues to seek \u2013 students inclusive of all racial, gender, religious, and class identities. The college\u2019s long-standing and profound commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is at the core of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ community and informs the access-oriented work of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Admission and Student Financial Services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We recognize that your ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ experience begins with us. As such, we want you to know that ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½\u2019 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/about\/mission\/#:~:text=ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½%20educates%20the%20whole%20person,in%20a%20collaborative%20residential%20community.\" target=\"_blank\">mission statement, principles, and values<\/a>, which have been tested and have evolved over time, are central to our mission-critical work. They require us to constantly reflect upon and recommit to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ mission to ensure that we can and will best serve prospective students, families, and high school counselors in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Admission and Student Financial Services proudly and purposefully embraces <em>\u201cthe transformative power of our differences\u201d <\/em>and strives to be \u201c<em>a college for coming times\u201d<\/em> in and through all that we do. Our admission and financial aid policies are clearly tied to these elements of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ mission statement. Annually, we seek to enroll diverse and talented students on behalf of the college, and institutionally, we commit to meeting 100% of a student\u2019s financial need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening its doors in 1855, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ is New England\u2019s first co-educational college.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-3781","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3781\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/financial-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}