Bowdoin College

This report from the President's Working Group on Knowledge, Skills, and Creative Dispositions outlines the strategic direction for Bowdoin College over the next decade, focusing on the essential knowledge, skills, and creative dispositions its graduates should possess. It proposes an Educational Model based on core values such as ethical decision-making, deep knowledge, and creative expression, alongside dispositions, facets, and sites of learning. The report recommends strategic enhancements in four key areas: problem-solving; technology, computation, and quantitative reasoning; difference, inclusivity, and globalization; and the residential college experience, aiming to position Bowdoin as a national model for higher learning in the 21st century.

This second edition of the Artificial Intelligence for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap explores how AI can significantly contribute to climate change mitigation. It identifies AI's potential for incremental and transformational gains, acknowledges that GHG emissions from AI computing are currently low but likely to increase, and highlights the main barriers as lack of data and trained personnel. The roadmap emphasizes the necessity of trust in AI systems by addressing risks such as bias, privacy, misinformation, and security. It recommends that every organization involved in climate mitigation should consider opportunities for AI to contribute to its work, providing a resource on current applications, future possibilities, risks, barriers, and policy options.

This strategic plan for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) outlines its direction from FY 2026 to 2030, aiming to be a vital educational resource and an engine for new learning and creative practice. The plan focuses on four key goals: fostering a culture of belonging and broad engagement, serving diverse student and community audiences through educational opportunities, strengthening its global focus through refined collecting, exhibition, and programming practices, and empowering staff through an improved institutional structure and workplace climate.

The Bowdoin College Library's Strategic Priorities and Key Objectives for FY 2023 focus on engaging the community and articulating impact, enhancing support for teaching, learning, and research, developing and leveraging collections, effectively delivering and preserving content, assessing programs and services, and confronting challenges related to library facilities. The plan emphasizes inclusive excellence, strengthening collaborations, increasing engagement, deepening understanding of inclusive pedagogies, partnering with students, diversifying holdings, reducing costs, implementing new systems, and advocating for a reimagined library building to support evolving academic needs.

This document presents a 2020 Vision for the Bowdoin College Library, outlining a path forward and recommendations for its future. The plan focuses on six key recommendations: reconceiving the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library through major renovation or new construction, integrating the Library into the campus master plan, considering adjacencies with other campus support services, actively engaging the community in planning, investing in technological infrastructure and systems, and providing ongoing support for collections, services, and staff development. The overall aim is to sustain the Library's critical functions, services, and collections, transforming it into a multidisciplinary public forum that supports Bowdoin's academic mission and commitment to liberal education.