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Bard College
Bard College, founded in 1860 as St. Stephen's College, is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States, in the town of Red Hook. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic District, a National Historic Landmark.
The institution consists of a liberal arts college, a conservatory, as well as eight graduate programs offering over 20 graduate degrees in the arts and sciences. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 10:1. The college has a network of over thirty-five affiliated programs, institutes, and centers, spanning twelve cities, five states, seven countries, and four continents.
Bard's Annandale campus serves as an important regional cultural institution. Both the CCS Hessel Museum of Contemporary Art and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts are located on campus. The college also hosts two acclaimed annual arts festivals, Bard SummerScape, and the Bard Music Festival.
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Bard News
April 12, 2018
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—The Landscape and Arboretum Program at Bard College has earned accreditation from the ArbNet program and has, for the last 9 years, been recognized by Tree Campus USA, an Arbor Day Foundation program. The Landscape and Arboretum Program promotes treeÃâà...
New York Times
April 7, 2018
More name-brand colleges could do what Bard College has done: Refine the first two years of their four-year liberal arts education into an accredited Bard associate degree. They work with local partners to offer the degree in “microcolleges” within libraries and community centers. Their first four studentsÃâà...
New York Times
April 7, 2018
The writer is vice president for early colleges at Bard College. To the Editor: David Leonhardt points out that although more students from poor families are attending college, fewer graduate compared with their wealthier classmates. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences' recent report, “The Future ofÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 24, 2018
In 1992, when a shooter murdered a student and a professor at Bard College at Simon's Rock, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, mass gun violence held a very different place in the American consciousness. Before Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland, and the many mass shootings in between, the countryÃâà...
Broadway World
March 23, 2018
It has been reported that lauded playwright Tony Kushner will appear in conversation with theatre scholar Alisa Solomon at Bard College to chat about the legacy and influence of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein. The event, which will take place on April 20 at 7:30 PM, will feature Kushner going inÃâà...
Poughkeepsie Journal
March 22, 2018
ANNANDALE - Ellen Driscoll, visiting professor of studio arts and director of the Studio Arts Program at Bard College, has been awarded the International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Educator Award for 2018. The award is presented to individuals "who have effectively and passionately communicatedÃâà...
The Daily Freeman
March 18, 2018
DETAILS: Oblong Books & Music, in association with The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, will present comedian H. Jon Benjamin, star of the FX Network animated series “Archer.” His voice is also heard on the Fox TV animated series “Bob's Burgers.” He will talk about hisÃâà...
Hudson Valley 360
March 9, 2018
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — The Graduate Vocal Arts Program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music presents a luminous triple bill of operatic rarities exploring the rites and rituals of marriage. The program features three fully staged operas: Pulcinella, by Igor Stravinsky, and Full Moon in March,Ãâà...
The Daily Freeman
March 1, 2018
The Woodstock Chamber Orchestra will pay tribute to one of its former members in a concert titled “Breaking Barriers.” It will be performed Saturday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Olin Hall on th campus of Bard College, 30 Campus Road, Annandale-on-Hudson. The snow date is Sunday, March 4, at 3 p.m..
Bard News
February 26, 2018
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—The Graduate Vocal Arts Program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music presents a luminous triple bill of operatic rarities exploring the rites and rituals of marriage. The program features three fully staged operas: Pulcinella, by Igor Stravinsky, and Full Moon in MarchÃâà...
Inside Higher Ed
February 16, 2018
Recognizing this, Bard College has opened a satellite college in the main branch of the public library in Brooklyn, N.Y., offering disadvantaged students a free pathway to higher education. The so-called microcollege, run by the private liberal arts college and Brooklyn Public Library, welcomed its inauguralÃâà...
Poughkeepsie Journal
February 12, 2018
Chelsea Manning, notable for WikiLeaks, to speak at Bard College. John W. Barry ... ANNANDALE - Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who was imprisoned for providing government secrets to WikiLeaks, will speak at Bard College in Annandale on Feb. 21. “A Conversation with ChelseaÃâà...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
JERUSALEM, March 3, 2018 (WAFA) - Students from Al-Quds Bard College (AQB), an Abu-Dis-based program of partnership between Al-Quds University (AQU) and Bard College, are partaking in the new educational endeavor of blended learning, an Al-Quds University press release said on Saturday.
Bard News
December 31, 1999
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Bard College Visiting Professor of Studio Arts and Director of Studio Arts Program Ellen Driscoll has been awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Educator Award for 2018. The International Sculpture Center's (ISC) Outstanding EducatorÃâà...
Bard News
December 31, 1999
It was just the latest in a series of events benefitting local Special Olympians, efforts initiated by the Bard College Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). The Committee is composed of two student athletes from each of Bard's 19 intercollegiate athletic programs, in addition to three student officers.
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