I appreciate the request, but I need actual article content to write a summary. The title "Bates College" and source attribution alone don't provide enough information about what news story this covers.
Bates College could relate to many personal finance topics: student loan policies, endowment performance, tuition increases, scholarship announcements, or other higher education financial matters.
Could you provide the article text or a more complete RSS excerpt? Even a few sentences describing what the story covers would let me write the sharp, specific summary you need.