Bard prof. Emma Briant calls for tougher action against disinformation and propaganda in response to rapidly expanding digital influence industry. PS She's teaching a "Contemporary Propaganda" course this fall.
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@EmmaLBriant
Outstanding news! Bard's Levy Economics Institute has been awarded a federal contract to aid the Labor Department in its efforts to broaden how it measures the economic well-being of US households.
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@levyecon
Excellent news today: this fall we will welcome award-winning author Masha Gessen to the Bard faculty. Gessen's courses will integrate literature, writing, and contemporary culture and politics.
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@mashagessen
We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Christian Crouch as the new Dean of Graduate Studies at Bard College. Professor Crouch (
@cacayne
) has been Associate Professor of History and Director of American Studies at Bard since 2014.
We are thrilled to announce that the Bard Prison Initiative has received an $80,000 grant from the Onassis Foundation (
@OCCNY
) to support courses and lectures related to Greek culture.
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In light of the upcoming Thanksgiving Break, we remind you of Bard's unchallenged status as No. 1 Dinner Party School. Have a safe and happy holiday, Bardians. And don't forget the artisanal cheeses.
Congratulations to Professor Daniel Mendelsohn, winner of the 2022 Malaparte Prize! The Malaparte Prize is Italy’s highest honor for foreign writers and one of the country’s most prestigious literary awards.
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@DAMendelsohnNYC
Bard College has a long history of civic engagement and activism. An applicant's participation in or disciplinary violation for peaceful protest to express their beliefs will not jeopardize a student's admission to Bard.
The Class of 2020 begins submitting Senior Projects today. The Bard community is proud of you. Our seniors have demonstrated adaptability, work ethic, and great care for each other in trying times. Pictured: Class of 2020, arrival day, Aug. 2016.
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Exciting news at Bard College today! We have received a $1.49 million
#HumanitiesforAllTimes
grant from
@MellonFdn
to support the “Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck” project. Learn more about the initiative: (1/)
Bard has joined the amicus brief in support of the Harvard-MIT lawsuit against the Trump Administration’s new ICE guidelines for international students.
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Congratulations to Professor Sarah Hennies, who received commissioning and performance awards from the Fromm Music Foundation and USArtists International!
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@sarahhennies
It's the last day of classes. What a semester. Thank you to our students, families, faculty, staff, alumni/ae, and friends for weathering this storm together. We wish everyone the best for a safe and restful summer.
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Bard President Leon Botstein and senior Sadia Saba enter the new voting site at the Bertelsmann Campus Center this morning. Both were plaintiffs with
@AndrewGoodmanF
in the lawsuit that led to Bard's first on-campus polling place. Photo: Karl Rabe.
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Our new Bardians gathered outside the Chapel of the Holy Innocents for their first group photo. We welcomed 439 first-years and 66 transfer students to Annandale last weekend.
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#bard26
📸: Karl Rabe
We are very happy to announce the appointment of Jomaira Salas Pujols (
@Jomairabsp
) to the Sociology Program faculty beginning in the fall of 2021. Pujols uses qualitative methods to study race, place, education, and Black girlhood.
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Fantastic news this morning! Bard faculty members Jeffrey Gibson (Studio Arts) and Valeria Luiselli (Written Arts) have been awarded MacArthur Foundation "genius" grants. Congratulations!
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@macfound
@ValeriaLuiselli
At 17, Jonathan Alvarez ’19 went to prison with a 10th-grade education. While incarcerated, he completed his GED and his BA through the Bard Prison Initiative. Now he's founded a nonprofit to mentor and educate youth in the lower Hudson Valley.
@BPIBard
Today was our first on-campus vaccine clinic! With thanks to Dr. Neal Smoller, the COVID-19 Response Team, and our wonderful student and employee volunteers for making this possible!
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#CollegeBehindBarsPBS
is amplifying the debate on criminal justice reform. What comes next? "Every state, every locality, every prison should be educating those who are incarcerated." —
@JamilSmith
for
@RollingStone
The Bard Debate Union at Eastern Correctional Facility returned to in-person debate on Friday for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Students in the Bard Prison Initiative narrowly defeated the team from Morehouse College.
Once separated by prison, Bard Prison Initiative alumnus Antoine Patton and his daughter, Jay Jay, built Photo Patch, an app that helps incarcerated parents stay in better touch with their children.
@BPIBard
@photo_patch
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Responding to the news that Poughkeepsie Day School will close at the end of this semester, President Botstein invited all rising seniors from PDS to complete their senior year at Bard for the same cost as attending PDS.
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“With respect, gratitude, and admiration, I congratulate each and every one of you in this unique graduating class of 2020.” —President Botstein
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In keeping with tradition, we remind you at this time of year of Bard's unchallenged status as the nation's no. 1 dinner party school. Happy Thanksgiving! Safe travels and a restful break to all!
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"Novelists are very nice people. But I’m not a novelist. I’m a storyteller who sometimes writes novels, and graphic novels, and short stories, and makes film or television."
@neilhimself
on his new
@MasterClass
:
Congratulations to Bard senior and
@BHSEC
Manhattan grad Isis Pinheiro, who has been awarded a prestigious Watson Fellowship for 2021–22! She'll spend the year traveling to England, Japan, China, Italy, and Guyana ... (1/2)
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#watsonfellow
It's been a beautiful week at Bard. We can't believe the last day of classes is less than two weeks away. Very best to all our students as they finish classes and finals. Photo by Karl Rabe.
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Last night, students, faculty, and staff gathered at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents, calling for peace and speaking out in support of Ukraine at a student-organized event before marching to Blithewood.
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(📸: Helen Zhang ’23)
Bard announces $25m gift from Gochman Family Foundation to support renamed American and Indigenous Studies Program, Center for Indigenous Studies, new faculty, student scholarships, and an Indigenous Curatorial Fellow at CCS Bard.
@forgeprojectny
Our new Bardians celebrated in style at last night’s Matriculation Ceremony, marking the completion of the Language and Thinking Program. Congratulations to all! (Photos by Karl Rabe)
Returning students arrive on campus tomorrow. Can’t wait to see everyone!
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TONIGHT! College Behind Bars airs on PBS! Tune in or live stream at 9/8c. The film follows Bard Prison Initiative students and alumni/ae as they pursue their educations and transform their lives.
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#bardimpacts
@BPIBard
With the death of John Lewis, the world has lost a moral leader and a heroic citizen of exemplary courage. Bard had the privilege of welcoming him to Annandale to address the graduating class of 2017. Shared here with gratitude.
Bard alumna Moira Donegan ’12 started the online spreadsheet of men in the media industry accused of sexual harassment. She spoke with The Times about why she created it and what her life has been like since.
The Bard College campus grounds are once again open to the public. We hope you will visit the arboretum, enjoy Montgomery Place, and join us for SummerScape and Bard Music Festival events! (1/3)
Congratulations to Bard College senior Adelina Colaku ’18 and junior Evan Tims ’19 on winning US State Department Critical Language Scholarships for study abroad this summer.
@CLSscholarship
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Today was the last day of classes for the fall 2020 semester. Best wishes for a restful and healthy Winter Break and holiday season to Bardians everywhere, from snowy Annandale.
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#HudsonValley
We are missing Professor Achebe on campus today. He was a tremendous presence at Bard.
#GoogleDoodle
honors what would have been his 87th birthday.
#ChinuaAchebe
“Finding the Money,” a new film by Maren Poitras, follows Stephanie Kelton, research associate at Bard’s
@LevyEcon
, on an exploration of Modern Monetary Theory, with expert commentary from Levy's Pavlina R. Tcherneva, L. Randall Wray, and more.
Congratulations to the Class of 2018! Here are a few of our favorite shots from Saturday. A special thank you to entrepreneur and engineer
@smithmegan
, our commencement speaker. (Photos by Karl Rabe)
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Wafa Mustafa ’20, a graduate of
@Bard_Berlin
, testified at a UN Security Council teleconference last week, calling for justice for the 130,000 people detained & disappeared in Syria, including her father.
#bardianandproud
@WafaMustafa9
The annual Bard Fiction Prize has been awarded to author Clare Beams! Beams begins her residency at Bard next fall. We can't wait to have her on campus.
@clarebeams
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#bardfictionprize
Six Bard College students have won Fulbright awards for 2018–19: seniors Elena LeFevre, Nicola Koepnick, Adelina Colaku, Page Benoit, and Madeleine Breshears, and Bethany Zulick ’16. Well done, all!
@FulbrightPrgrm
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We are thrilled to announce that Deb Haaland, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, will deliver the 2022 Commencement address at Bard College.
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Commencement events kicked off yesterday evening with the Baccalaureate Service, followed by the Senior Dinner and Awards Ceremony at Blithewood!
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📸: AnnAnn Puttithanasorn ’23
Tayler Butler ’17 is a Bard alumna, Posse Scholar, and future lawyer. As a Bard student, she tutored incarcerated students at
@BPIBard
. The experience inspired her to continue work in the field. Now she's pursuing her law degree at Cornell.
Inside Higher Ed writes that Bard College is the latest US institution to open its doors to displaced Ukrainian students, bringing 60 students to its various campuses, with most starting next fall.
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@insidehighered
“What defines us is our minds and our hearts—that we have moralities, even in prison.” New preview for College Behind Bars, a documentary following
@BPIBard
students as they earn degrees and after release.
@PBS
#CollegeBehindBarsPBS
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