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}}Bard College is a private liberal arts college in the hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson, in the town of Red Hook, in New York State. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains within the Hudson River Historic District—a National Historic Landmark.Founded in 1860, the institution consists of a liberal arts college and a conservatory, as well as eight graduate programs offering over 20 graduate degrees in the arts and sciences.WEB, Endowment,weblink August 9, 2014, Bard College, Bard College, The college has a network of over 35 affiliated programs, institutes, and centers, spanning twelve cities, five states, seven countries, and four continents.WEB,weblink Institutes, Bard College, July 10, 2012, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120629125438weblink">weblink June 29, 2012,

History

Origins and early years

File:1867 Map of Red Hook.png|thumb|left|A map {{Circa|1867}} showing the various estates in the Town of Red Hook ]]During much of the nineteenth century, the land since owned by Bard was mainly composed of several country estates. These estates were called Blithewood, Bartlett, Sands, Cruger's Island, and Ward Manor/Almont.In 1853, John Bard and Margaret Bard purchased a part of the Blithewood estate and renamed it Annandale. John Bard was the grandson of Samuel Bard, a prominent doctor, a founder of Columbia University's medical school, and physician to George Washington.JOURNAL, Hirsch, Felix, October 1941, The Bard Family, Columbia University Quarterly, Bard College Archives, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, John Bard was also the nephew of the Rev. John McVickar, a professor at Columbia University. The family had strong connections with the Episcopal Church and Columbia. The following year, in 1854, John and Margaret established a parish school on their estate in order to educate the area's children. A wood-frame cottage, known today as Bard Hall, served as a school on weekdays and a chapel on weekends. In 1857, the Bards expanded the parish by building the Chapel of the Holy Innocents next to Bard Hall.BOOK, Education for the Common Good: A History of Bard College The First 100 Years, 1860-1960, Kline, Reamer, 1982, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 15,weblink July 12, 2012, June 1, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130601141058weblink">weblink live, During this time, John Bard remained in close contact with the New York leaders of the Episcopal Church. The Church suggested that he found a theological college.BOOK, Reminiscences of St. Stephen's College, Hopson, George, 1910, Edwin S. Gorham, New York, NY, 16–17,weblink With the promise of outside financial support, John Bard donated the unfinished Chapel, and the surrounding {{convert|18|acre}}, to the diocese in November 1858. In March 1860, St. Stephen's College was founded. In 1861, construction began on the first St. Stephen's College building, a stone collegiate gothic dormitory called Aspinwall. During its initial years, the college relied on wealthy benefactors, like trustee Cornelius Vanderbilt, for funding.BOOK, The History of St. Stephen's College 1860-1933, Magee, Christopher, 1950, Bard College Senior Project, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 38, The college began taking shape within four decades. In 1866, Ludlow Hall, an administrative building, was erected. Preston Hall was built in 1873 and used as a refectory. A set of four dormitories, collectively known as Stone Row, were completed in 1891. And in 1895, the Greek revival Hoffman Memorial Library was built.REPORT, John Milner Associates Inc., December 2008, Bard College Master Preservation Plan, 27, The school officially changed its name to Bard College in 1934 in honor of its founder.

Growth and secularization

(File:Ward Manor Dorm.jpg|left|thumb|Ward Manor House serves as a dormitory)In the 20th century, social and cultural changes amongst New York's high society would bring about the demise of the great estates. In 1914, Louis Hamersley purchased the fire-damaged Ward Manor/Almont estate and erected a Tudor style mansion and gatehouse, or what is today known as Ward Manor.BOOK, Education for the Common Good: A History of Bard College The First 100 Years, 1860-1960, Kline, Reamer, 1982, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY,weblink July 12, 2012, June 1, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130601141058weblink">weblink live, Hamersley expanded his estate in 1926 by acquiring the abandoned Cruger's Island estate. That same year, after Hamersley's combined estate was purchased by William Ward, it was donated to charity and served as a retirement home for almost four decades.By the mid-1900s, Bard's campus significantly expanded. The Blithewood estate was donated to the college in 1951, and in 1963, Bard purchased {{convert|90|acre}} of the Ward Manor estate, including the main manor house. The rest of the Ward Manor estate became the {{convert|900|acre|adj=on}} Tivoli Bays nature preserve.WEB,weblink Bard College Archives, Bard College, July 11, 2012, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130601141058weblink">weblink June 1, 2013, REPORT, John Milner Associates Inc., December 2008, Bard College Master Preservation Plan, 34, In 1919, Fr. Bernard Iddings Bell became Bard's youngest president at the age of 34. His adherence to classical education, decorum, and dress eventually clashed with the school's push towards Deweyism and secularization, and he resigned in 1933.BOOK, Confessions of a Bohemian Tory, Kirk, Russell, Fleet Publishing Corporation, 1963, 162, In 1928, Bard merged with Columbia University, serving as an undergraduate school similar to Barnard College. Under the agreement, Bard remained affiliated with the Episcopal Church and retained control of its finances. The merger raised Bard's prestige; however, it failed to provide financial support to the college during the Great Depression.WEB,weblink About Bard | History of Bard, Bard.edu, May 21, 2011, July 8, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110614212715weblink">weblink June 14, 2011, live, So dire was Bard's financial situation that in 1932, then-Governor of New York and College trustee Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a telegram to the likes of John D. Rockefeller Jr., George Eastman and Frederick William Vanderbilt requesting donations for the college.BOOK, Education for the Common Good: A History of Bard College The First 100 Years, 1860-1960, Kline, Reamer, 1982, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 99,weblink July 12, 2012, September 23, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150923182412weblink">weblink live, On May 26, 1933, Dr. Donald Tewksbury, a Columbia professor, was appointed dean of the college. Although dean for only four years, Tewksbury had a lasting impact on the school. Tewksbury, an educational philosopher, had extensive ideas regarding higher education. While he was dean, Tewksbury steered the college into a more secular direction and changed its name from St. Stephen's to Bard. He also placed a heavy academic emphasis on the arts, something atypical of colleges at the time, and set the foundations for Bard's Moderation and Senior Project requirement.BOOK, Education for the Common Good: A History of Bard College The First 100 Years, 1860-1960, Kline, Reamer, 1982, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 104,weblink July 12, 2012, September 23, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150923182412weblink">weblink live, While Tewksbury never characterized Bard's curriculum as "progressive," the school would later be considered an early adopter of progressive education. In his 1943 study of early progressive colleges, titled General Education in the Progressive College, Louis T. Benezet used Bard as one of his three case studies.BOOK, Education for the Common Good: A History of Bard College The First 100 Years, 1860-1960, Kline, Reamer, 1982, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 106,weblink July 12, 2012, September 23, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150923182412weblink">weblink live, During the 1940s, Bard provided a haven for intellectual refugees fleeing Europe. These included Hannah Arendt, the political theorist, Stefan Hirsch, the precisionist painter; Felix Hirsch, the political editor of the Berliner Tageblatt; the violinist Emil Hauser; the linguist Hans Marchand; the noted psychologist Werner Wolff; and the philosopher Heinrich Blücher.Arendt is buried at Bard, alongside her husband Heinrich Blücher, as is eminent novelist Philip Roth.WEB,weblink Hannah Arendt Center News, hac.bard.edu, 2018-12-29, December 30, 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20181230030337weblink">weblink live, In 1944, as a result of World War II, enrollment significantly dropped putting financial stress on the college. In order to increase enrollment, the college became co-educational, thereby severing all ties with Columbia. The college became an independent, secular, institution in 1944. Thus enrollment more than doubled, from 137 students in 1944, to 293 in 1947.BOOK, Education for the Common Good: A History of Bard College The First 100 Years, 1860-1960, Kline, Reamer, 1982, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 120,weblink July 12, 2012, September 23, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150923182418weblink">weblink live, In the 1950s, with the addition of the Blithewood estate and Tewksbury Hall, the college would increase its enrollment by 150 students.

Late twentieth and early twenty-first century

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker's experiences at Bard prompted them to write the 1973 song "My Old School" for their rock group, Steely Dan.WEB, The origins of Steely Dan,weblink Entertainment Weekly, Brunner, Rob, March 17, 2006, December 12, 2019, December 8, 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20141208091758weblink">weblink live, The song was motivated by the 1969 drug bust at Bard in which the college administration colluded.WEB,weblink Back to Annandale, March 17, 2006, March 27, 2023, March 27, 2023,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20230327172401weblink">weblink live, The DA involved was G. Gordon Liddy of Watergate notoriety.NEWS,weblink G. Gordon Liddy (Yes, the Watergate guy), Bard College, & Steely Dan, Poughkeepsie Journal, April 6, 1968, 1, March 27, 2023, March 27, 2023,weblink live, Fagen wrote another Steely Dan song, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", about novelist, artist and former Bard faculty spouse Rikki Ducornet.WEB,weblink The Burden of Strangeness: Rikki Ducornet, PWxyz, LLC, McCormack, J.W., May 20, 2016, December 12, 2019, December 12, 2019,weblink live, In 2020, Bard College, along with Central European University, became the founding members of the Open Society University Network, a collaborative global education initiative endowed with US$1 billion. As part of this new initiative, the college received a US$100 million gift from the Open Society Foundations which ranks among the largest financial contributions to a U.S. institution in recent history.WEB,weblink Open Society Foundations Gives Bard $100 Million | Inside Higher Ed, www.insidehighered.com, July 2, 2020, July 2, 2020, July 31, 2022,weblink live, NEWS,weblink Major Private Gifts to Higher Education - the Chronicle of Higher Education, July 2, 2020, July 5, 2020,weblink live, In 2021, philanthropist George Soros made a $500 million endowment pledge to Bard College. It is one of the largest pledges of money ever made to higher education in the United States.WEB, Relations, Bard Public, Bard College Receives $500 Million Endowment Pledge from Investor and Philanthropist George Soros,weblink 2023-05-31, www.bard.edu, en, In June 2021, Bard College was declared an "undesirable institution" in Russia, becoming the first international higher education organization to be branded with this designation.NEWS, Redden, Elizabeth, Bard College Declared 'Undesirable' in Russia,weblink 5 August 2021, Inside Higher Ed, July 9, 2021, en, August 5, 2021,weblink live, Bard president Botstein hypothesized that this tag was due their association with and funding from the Open Society Foundations which was also classified as undesirable in Russia and related conspiracy theories about George Soros.NEWS, Fischer, Karin, Bard President Is 'Heartbroken' About Russian Blacklisting,weblink 5 August 2021, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 22, 2021, August 5, 2021,weblink live,

College leaders

At various times, the leaders of the college have been titled president, warden or dean.WEB, College, Bard, Bard College History at Bard College,weblink 2023-09-04, www.bard.edu, en, They are listed below:

1. George Franklin Seymour (1860–1861)
2. Thomas Richey (1861–1863)
3. Robert Brinckerhoff Fairbairn (1863–1898)
4. Lawrence T. Cole (1899–1903)
5. Thomas R. Harris (1904–1907)
6. William Cunningham Rodgers (1909–1919)
7. Bernard Iddings Bell (1919–1933)
8. Donald George Tewksbury (1933–1937)
9. Harold Mestre (1938–1939)
10. Charles Harold Gray (1940–1946)
11. Edward C. Fuller (1946–1950)
12. James Herbert Case Jr. (1950–1960)
13. Reamer Kline (1960–1974)
14. Leon Botstein (1975–Present)

Campus

The campus of Bard College is in Annandale-on-Hudson, a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States, in the town of Red Hook. It contains more than 70 buildings with a total gross building space of {{cvt|1,167,090|sqft}} and was listed as a census-designated place in 2020.WEB,weblink GHG Report for Bard College, American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment, April 24, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130127042323weblink">weblink January 27, 2013, dead, WEB,weblink State of New York Census Designated Places - Current/BAS20 - Data as of January 1, 2019, January 1, 2019, U.S. Census Bureau, February 8, 2020, February 24, 2020,weblink live, Campus buildings represent varied architectural styles, but the campus remains heavily influenced by the Collegiate Gothic and Postmodern styles.Bard's historic buildings are associated with the early development of the college and the history of the Hudson River estates (see Bard College History). During a late twentieth-century building boom, the college embraced a trend of building signature buildings designed by prominent architects like Venturi, Gehry, and Viñoly.WEB,weblink Facilities, Bard College, April 24, 2013, April 8, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150408100140weblink">weblink live, In January 2016, Bard purchased Montgomery Place, a {{convert|380|acre|adj=on}} estate adjacent to the Bard campus, with significant historic and cultural assets. The estate consists of a historic mansion, a farm, and some 20 smaller buildings. The college purchased the property from Historic Hudson Valley, the historical preservation organization that had owned Montgomery Place since the late 1980s. The addition of this property brings Bard's total campus size to nearly {{cvt|1,000|acre}} along the Hudson River in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.WEB, Bard College completes $18M purchase of Montgomery Place, William J., Kemble, January 13, 2016,weblink dailyfreeman.com, Daily Freeman, February 29, 2016, March 12, 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160312092519weblink">weblink live, In late 2023, Bard purchased 260 acres of land adjacent to the Montgomery Place campus in Barrytown, which used to be the campus of the Unification Theological Seminary. Bard intends to use the space to provide new studios for the Center for Human Rights and the Arts and administrative offices for the Open Society University Network (OSUN), of which Bard is a founding member. The purchase of the property brings Bard's total acreage to 1260 acres (510 ha).WEB, Larson, Jamie, 2023-09-14, Bard College Announces $14 Million Purchase of Former Unification Church Compound After Months of Rumors,weblink 2024-01-26, The Hudson Valley Pilot, en, The area around the campus first appeared as a census-designated place (CDP) in the 2020 Census,WEB,weblink 2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Bard College CDP, NY, U.S. Census Bureau, 2023-12-17, with a population of 358.WEB, Bard College CDP, New York,weblink March 13, 2022, United States Census Bureau, The college has an amount of housing for faculty members.WEB,weblink The Faculty Handbook 2019-2020, Bard College, July 2019, 79 (PDF p. 83/150), 2023-12-17, School-age dependents in this faculty housing are in the Red Hook Central School District (the CDP is within this school district).WEB,weblink 2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Dutchess County, NY, U.S. Census Bureau, 1 (PDF p. 2/7), 2023-12-17, Bard College[...]UNI 24240*, File:Montgomery Place Bard College.jpg|Montgomery Place, historic estate and museumFile:Blithewood Manor.jpg|Blithewood Manor, historic estate housing the Levy Economics Institute File:Blithewood Garden on Bard College campus.jpg|Blithewood Garden, Italianate walled gardenFile:Bard College - IMG 8005.JPG|Hessel Museum, museum of contemporary artFile:Reem-Kayden Center for Science and Computation Bard College.jpg|Reem-Kayden Center for Science and ComputationFile:The Ravines.jpg|The Ravines, dormitoryFile:Alumni Houses.jpg|Alumni Houses, dormitoryFile:Tewksbury Hall Dorm.jpg|Tewksbury Hall, dormitoryFile:Stone Row Dorm.jpg|Stone Row, dormitoryFile:Chapel of the Holy Innocents Bard College.jpg|Chapel of the Holy Innocents, non-denominational churchFile:Resnick Village Dorms Bard College.jpg|Stewart and Lynda Resnick Commons, residential village with dormitoriesFile:Cruger Dorm Bard College.jpg|Cruger, dormitoryFile:Ward Manor Dorm.jpg|Ward Manor, dormitoryFile:Fisher Center at Bard.jpg|Fisher Center at Bard, performance hall designed by Frank Gehry

Academics

Rankings and awards

factoids

In its 2022-2023 edition of college rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked Bard 60th overall, 5th in "Most Innovative Schools", tied at 38th for "Best Undergraduate Teaching", tied at #70 in "Top Performers on Social Mobility", tied at #19 in "First-Year Experiences", and 19th for "Best Value" out of 210 "National Liberal Arts Colleges" in the United States.WEB,weblink Bard College Rankings, U.S. News & World Report, 2023, January 5, 2023, live, February 2, 2021,weblink Bard's Master of Fine Arts program was ranked one of ten most influential Master of Fine Arts programs in the world by Artspace Magazine in 2023.WEB, 10 of the Most Influential MFA Programs in the World,weblink 2023-05-31, Artspace, english, Bard has been named a top producer of U.S. Fulbright Scholars.WEB,weblink Bard College Named a Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. Students and U.S. Scholars for 2019–20, Bard Public, Relations, www.bard.edu, December 5, 2020, October 27, 2020,weblink live, Many Bard alumni have also been named Watson Fellows, Critical Language Scholarship recipients, (Kathryn Wasserman Davis#Projects for Peace: funding grants source|Davis Projects for Peace) winners, Rhodes Scholars, Marshall Scholars, and Peace Corps fellows, among other postgraduate awards.WEB,weblink Two Bard College Seniors Win Prestigious Watson Travel Fellowships | Bard College Public Relations, Bard Public, Relations, www.bard.edu, July 2, 2020, July 2, 2020,weblink live, WEB,weblink Two Bard College Students Win Critical Language Scholarships for Foreign Language Study Abroad | Bard College Public Relations, Bard Public, Relations, www.bard.edu, July 2, 2020, July 3, 2020,weblink live, WEB,weblink Bard College Student Wins Davis Projects For Peace Prize, Bard Public, Relations, www.bard.edu, December 5, 2020, February 2, 2021,weblink live, WEB,weblink Bard College Alumnus Ronan S. Farrow '04 Awarded Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship | Bard College Public Relations, Bard Public, Relations, www.bard.edu, July 3, 2020, July 3, 2020,weblink live,

Undergraduate programs

In the undergraduate college, Bard offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees. There are 23 academic departments that offer over 40 major programs, as well as 12 interdisciplinary concentrations. The college was the first in the nation to offer a human rights major.WEB,weblink Bard College Catalogue, Bard College, July 11, 2012, September 23, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150923182510weblink">weblink live, Its most popular undergraduate majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:WEB,weblink nces.ed.gov, U.S. Dept of Education, Bard College, February 22, 2023, April 13, 2023,weblink live,

• Social Sciences (140)
• Fine/Studio Arts (106)
• English Language and Literature/Letters (81)
• Biological and Physical Sciences (80)

In the three weeks preceding their first semester, first-year students attend the Language and Thinking (L&T) program, an intensive, writing-centered introduction to the liberal arts. The interdisciplinary program, established in 1981, aims to "cultivate habits of thoughtful reading and discussion, clear articulation, accurate self-critique, and productive collaboration."WEB,weblink Language and Thinking, Bard College, July 11, 2012, April 14, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150414044348weblink">weblink live, The program covers philosophy, history, science, poetry, fiction, and religion. In 2011, the core readings included works by Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, Frans de Waal, Stephen Jay Gould, Clifford Geertz, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Sophocles.WEB,weblink Language and Thinking Anthology, Bard College, July 11, 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130123030235weblink">weblink January 23, 2013, dead, The capstone of the Bard undergraduate experience is the Senior Project, commonly referred to as SPROJ amongst its students.WEB,weblink Undergraduate Curriculum at Bard College, Bard, College, www.bard.edu, October 18, 2019, October 2, 2019,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20191002212944weblink">weblink live, As with moderation, this project takes different forms in different departments. Many students write a paper of around eighty pages, which is then, as with work for moderation, critiqued by a board of three professors. Arts students must organize a series of concerts, recitals, or shows, or produce substantial creative work; math and science students, as well as some social science students, undertake research projects.

Undergraduate admissions

For the academic year 2022-2023, Bard's acceptance rate stands at 46%. Out of the total 6,482 students who applied, 2,982 were admitted to the school.WEB, Bard College Acceptance Rate and SAT/ACT Scores,weblink 2023-07-01, www.collegetuitioncompare.com, For the 2022-2023 academic year 447 students enrolled representing a yield rate of 15%. Admission trends note a 25% increase in applications in the 2022-2023 academic year.WEB, How Bard College's Acceptance Rate Changes,weblink 2023-07-01, College Tuition Compare, en, Bard does not require applicants to submit SAT or ACT test scores in order to apply.WEB, Undergraduate Admission,weblink bard.edu, Bard College, 5 January 2023, January 5, 2023,weblink live, As an alternative, applicants may take an examination composed of 19 essay questions in four categories: Social Studies; Languages and Literature; Arts; and Science, Mathematics, and Computing, with applicants required to complete three 2,500-word essays covering three of the four categories.WEB, The Bard Entrance Examination,weblink bard.edu, Bard College, 5 January 2023, January 5, 2023,weblink live, For admitted students who submitted test scores, 50% had an SAT score between 1296 and 1468 or an ACT score between 28 and 33, with a reported average GPA of 3.79. Admissions officials consider a student's GPA a very important academic factor. Honors, AP, and IB classes are important, an applicant's high school class rank is considered, and letters of recommendation are considered very important for admissions officials at Bard.WEB, Bard College Admissions,weblink usnews.com, U.S. News & World Report, 5 January 2023, January 5, 2023,weblink live, WEB, Bard College SAT Scores and GPA,weblink prepscholar.com, PrepScholar, 5 January 2023, January 5, 2023,weblink live,

Graduate programs

Bard College offers a range of postgraduate degree programs, including the Bard MFA, Bard Graduate Center, Center for Curatorial Studies, Center for Human Rights and the Arts, Center for Environmental Policy, Bard MBA in Sustainability, Levy Economics Institute, and the Master of Arts in Teaching.

Bard MFA

Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts is a nontraditional graduate school for interdisciplinary study in the visual and creative arts. The program takes place over two years and two months, with students residing on campus during three consecutive summers, and two winter sessions of independent study completed off campus.WEB, Program,weblink 2023-06-01, www.bard.edu, Notable artists and writers that have been affiliated with the Bard MFA as faculty and visiting artists include Marina Abramovic, Eileen Myles, Paul Chan, Robert Kelly, Tony Conrad, Okkyung Lee, Yto Barrada, Carolee Schneemann, Lynne Tillman, and Ben Lerner.WEB, People,weblink 2023-06-01, www.bard.edu,

Bard Graduate Center

(Bard Graduate Center|The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture) is a graduate research institute and gallery located in New York City. Established in 1993, the institute offers a two-year MA program and a PhD program that began in 1998. The institute's facilities include a gallery space at 18 West 86th Street and an academic building with a library at 38 West 86th Street.WEB, Bard Graduate Center,weblink 2023-05-31, www.bgc.bard.edu,

Center for Curatorial Studies

(File:Bard College - IMG 8005.JPG|thumb|CCS Bard and Hessel Museum)The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) established in 1990, is a museum and research center dedicated to the study of contemporary art and exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present. In 1994, CCS Bard launched its (MA) Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies program.WEB, Solomon, Tessa, 2022-09-23, After a $50 M. Gift to Celebrate 30 Years, Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies Looks Toward the Future,weblink 2023-05-31, ARTnews.com, en-US, The center also hosts public events throughout the year including lectures and panel discussions on topics in contemporary art.The museum, spanning an area of 55,000 square feet, offers a variety of exhibitions accessible to the general public throughout the year. It houses two distinct collections, the CCS Bard Collection and the Marieluise Hessel collection, which has been loaned to CCS Bard on a permanent basis. Artists such as Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Stephen Shore, and Cindy Sherman, among numerous others, are featured within these collections.WEB, Collections – eMuseum,weblink 2023-05-31, bard.emuseum.com, The CCS Bard Library is a research collection for contemporary art with a focus on post-1960s contemporary art, curatorial practice, exhibition histories, theory, and criticism. in 2023 historian Robert Storr donated over 25,000 volumes to the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, nearly doubling the total collection size to 63,000 volumes.WEB, Robert Storr Donates Archive to CCS Bard,weblink 2023-05-31, www.artforum.com, en-US, Other noteworthy contributors include Louise Bourgeois, Yto Barrada, Leon Golub, Jenny Holzer, Gerhard Richter, and Rachel Whiteread.In 2022 CCS Bard received $50 million from a $25 million donation from the Gochman Family Foundation to form a Center for American and Indigenous Studies at CCS Bard and a matching donation of $25 million from George Soros.WEB, Nietzel, Michael T., Bard College Receives $50 Million For Indigenous Studies,weblink 2023-05-31, Forbes, en, This followed two 2021 gifts of $25 million, one from Marieluise Hessel and a matching donation from Soros.WEB, Block, Fang, Marieluise Hessel Foundation and George Soros Each Donate $25 Million to Bard College,weblink 2023-05-31, www.barrons.com, en-US,

Center for Human Rights & the Arts

File:Fisher Center at Bard.jpg|thumb|Fisher Center at Bard ]]The Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College is an interdisciplinary research institution dedicated to exploring the intersection of art and human rights. The center is affiliated with the Open Society University Network (OSUN). The center's flagship initiative is the Master of Arts program in Human Rights & the Arts.WEB, 2023-05-31, Home,weblink 2023-05-31, Center for Human Rights and the Arts, en-US, The center includes initiatives such as resident research fellowships, research grants, artist commissions, public talks, accessible publications, and a biennial arts festival organized in partnership with the Fisher Center at Bard and other OSUN institutions and art venues worldwide.

Center for Environmental Policy

The Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) at Bard College is a research institution offering a range of graduate degree programs focused on environmental policy, climate science, and environmental education. The CEP offers a series of graduate degrees including the Master of Science in Environmental Policy and Master of Education. In addition to these individual degree programs, CEP offers dual-degree options that allow students to combine their environmental studies with programs in law or business.WEB, Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability,weblink 2023-05-31, gps.bard.edu, en-us,

Levy Economics Institute

Levy Economics Institute is a public policy think tank focused on generating public policy responses to economic problems. Through research, analysis, and informed debate, the institute aims to enable scholars and leaders from business, labor, and government to collaborate on common interest issues.WEB, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College,weblink 2023-06-01, www.levyinstitute.org, The institute's findings are disseminated globally through various channels, including publications, conferences, seminars, congressional testimony, and partnerships with other nonprofits. Its research encompasses a wide range of topics, including stock-flow consistent macro modeling, fiscal policy, monetary policy and financial structure, financial instability, income and wealth distribution, financial regulation and governance, gender equality and time poverty, and immigration/ethnicity and social structure.WEB, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College,weblink 2023-06-01, www.levyinstitute.org, The Levy Economics Institute is particularly known for its research in heterodox economics, with a focus on Post-Keynesian and Marxian economics. It is additionally recognized as the leading research center for the study of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Notable individuals that have been affiliated with the Levy Economics Institute as professors, directors, and economists include Joseph Stiglitz, Hyman Minsky, William Julius Wilson, L. Randall Wray, Jan Kregel, Bruce C. Greenwald, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Lakshman Achuthan, Warren Mosler, Stephanie Kelton, Bill Mitchell, and Pavlina R. Tcherneva.WEB, Levy Economics Institute {{!, About Us |url=https://www.levyinstitute.org/about/ |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=www.levyinstitute.org}}(File:Blithewood Manor.jpg|thumb|Blithewood Manor houses the Levy Economics Institute)

Endowment

Bard has access to multiple, distinct endowments. Bard, along with Central European University, is a founding member of the Open Society University Network, endowed with $1 billion from philanthropist George Soros, which is a network of universities to operate throughout the world to better prepare students for current and future global challenges through integrated teaching and research.NEWS, Communications, George Soros Launches Global Network to Transform Higher Education,weblink 5 January 2023, Open Society Foundations, January 23, 2020, November 16, 2020,weblink live, WEB,weblink Bard College and Partners Establish Global Network to Transform Higher Education, Bard Public, Relations, www.bard.edu, December 5, 2020, October 27, 2020,weblink live, Bard maintains its own endowment of approximately $412 million. In July 2020, Bard received a gift of $100 million from the Open Society Foundations, which will dispense $10 million yearly over a period of ten years.NEWS,weblink Open Society Foundations Invest $100 Million in Bard College: Strengthening the Global Network, July 2, 2020, July 4, 2020,weblink live, In April 2021, Bard received a $500 million endowment challenge grant from George Soros. Once matched, on a five-year timeline, Bard will have an endowment of more than $1 billion.NEWS, Adams, Susan, George Soros Is Giving $500 Million To Bard College,weblink 5 May 2021, Forbes, April 1, 2021,

Programs, centers, and associated institutes

Bard has developed several innovative graduate programs and research institutes, including the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, the Levy Economics Institute which began offering a Masters of Science in Economic Theory and Policy in 2014, the Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, the Bard College Conservatory of Music, the ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies in Manhattan,WEB,weblink ICP-Bard MFA, May 16, 2016, July 26, 2018, March 27, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150327152932weblink">weblink live, the Master of Arts in Teaching Program (MAT), the Bard College Clemente Program, and the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan.(File:FisherCenterInterior.png|thumb|right|Interior view of the Gehry-designed Fisher Center)In 1990, Bard College acquired, on permanent loan, art collector Marieluise Hessel's substantial collection of important contemporary artwork. In 2006, Hessel contributed another $8 million (USD) for the construction of a 17,000-square-foot addition to Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies building, in which the collection is exhibited.NEWS, Bloomberg, Marieluise Hessel Builds a Museum at Bard for Her Collection,weblink Bloomberg.com, November 20, 2013, November 10, 2006, February 2, 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140202174953weblink">weblink live, The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) provides a liberal arts degree to incarcerated individuals (prison education) in five prisons in New York State, and enrolls nearly 200 students.WEB,weblink Bard Prison Initiative, Bard.edu, July 8, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110809033620weblink">weblink August 9, 2011, live, Since federal funding for prison education programs was eliminated in 1994,NEWS,weblink CBS News, Maximum Security Education, April 15, 2007, April 19, 2007, December 15, 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121215063041weblink">weblink live, BPI is one of only a small number of programs of its kind in the country.Bard awards the Bard Fiction Prize annually to "a promising emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application". The prize is $30,000 and an appointment as writer-in-residence at the college.WEB,weblink Bard College - Bard Fiction Prize, www.bard.edu, January 8, 2019, January 21, 2019,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190121042827weblink">weblink live, The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities is located at Bard College. The center hosts an annual public conference, offers courses, runs various related academic programs, and houses research fellows,Hannah Arendt Center {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814232947weblink |date=August 14, 2018 }}, January 5, 2018 and is directed by Dr. Roger Berkowitz, a legal scholar and an associate professor of politics, philosophy, and human rights.Hannah Arendt Center: About {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106231657weblink |date=January 6, 2018 }}, January 5, 2018In February 2009, Bard announced the first dual degree program between a Palestinian university and an American institution of higher education. The college entered into a collaboration with Al-Quds University involving an honors college, a master's program in teaching and a model high school.Palestinian Campus Looks to East Bank (of Hudson) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126225944weblink |date=January 26, 2018 }}, New York Times, February 14, 2009In accordance with AlQuds-Bard requirements, students are not allowed to decide their major during the first year of their studies; instead, as a liberal arts college, students are advised to diverge in different classes that would allow them to decide what program they would like to take interest in as in the following year. Students are encouraged to look upon different classes to help them decide the subject they would mostly enjoy studying. Bard gives students the opportunity to dissect different programs before committing to a specific major. As a policy, throughout a student's undergraduate years, they must distribute their credits among different courses so that they can liberally experience the different courses Bard has to offer.AlQuds Bard Requirements {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330083005weblink |date=March 30, 2017 }}, March 29, 2017In June 2011, Bard officially acquired the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts,NEWS,weblink After Longy-Bard merger, a music school peers into its future, Eichler, Jeremy, September 12, 2011, August 9, 2014, Boston Globe, June 2, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150602020305weblink">weblink live, and in November 2011, Bard took ownership of the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin, Germany, to become Bard College Berlin.WEB,weblink History, August 9, 2014, Bard College Berlin, Bard College Berlin, May 2, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150502194848weblink">weblink live, In 2013, Bard entered into a comprehensive agreement with Soochow University in Suzhou, China, that will include a joint program between the Soochow University School of Music and the Bard College Conservatory of Music, exploration leading to the establishment of The Bard College Liberal Arts Academy at Soochow University, and student exchange.WEB,weblink Bard College and Soochow University in China Agree to Comprehensive Partnership, including the Creation of a Joint Music Program, Student Exchange, and the Bard College Liberal Arts Academy in Soochow University, June 24, 2013, August 9, 2014, News & Events, Bard College, Mark, Primoff, April 14, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150414051354weblink">weblink live, In 2020, Bard announced that through the new Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Advanced Achievement Scholars program the college will offer admission to high school juniors within 120 miles from the college based on an essay process based on the popular Bard Entrance Exam, first launched in 2013.WEB, Bard College Offers Unique Admission Program for High School Juniors,weblink Relations, Bard Public, www.bard.edu, en, 2020-05-07, July 31, 2022,weblink live,

Student life

Over 120 student clubs are financed through Bard's Convocation Fund, which is distributed once a semester by an elected student body and ratified during a public forum.Bard College has one print newspaper, the Bard Free Press, which was awarded a Best in Show title by the Associated Collegiate Press in 2013.WEB, Associated Collegiate Press, ACP Best of Show Winners,weblink Studentpress.org, November 19, 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131203000611weblink">weblink December 3, 2013, In 2003, the Bard Free Press won Best Campus Publication in SPIN Magazine's first annual Campus Awards.WEB,weblink The Bard Free Press, August 26, 2007, July 8, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110719142108weblink">weblink July 19, 2011, live, Student-run literary magazines include the semiannual Lux, The Moderator, and Sui Generis, a journal of translations and of original poetry in languages other than English. The Draft, a human rights journal, the Bard Journal of the Social Sciences, Bard Science Journal, and Qualia, a philosophy journal, are also student-published. Bard Papers is a privately funded literary magazine operated jointly between faculty and students.Other prominent student groups include: the International Students Organization (ISO), Afropulse, Latin American Student Organization (LASO), Caribbean Student Association (CSA), Asian Student Organization (ASO), Bard Musical Theatre Company (BMTC), Black Student Organization (BSO), Anti-Capitalism Feminist Coalition, Body Image Discussion Group, Self-Injury Support and Discussion, Bard Film Committee, Queer Student Association, Trans Life Collective, The Scale Project, Student Labor Dialogue, Bard Debate Union, Bard Model UN, Surrealist Training Circus, Bard Bike Co-Op, Bard Bars, Bard POC Theater Ensemble, and college radio station WXBC.WEB, Bard Student Clubs at Bard College,weblink College, Bard, studentactivities.bard.edu, en, 2020-05-07, October 29, 2020,weblink live, WXBC was founded in 1947."About WXBC {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212102456weblink |date=December 12, 2018 }}", WXBC. Retrieved March 11, 2019. In 2006, WXBC was nominated for "Station of the Year" and "Biggest Improvement" in the CMJ College Radio Awards.CMJ College Radio Awards Nominees {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090516045725weblink |date=May 16, 2009 }} College Music Journal November 16, 2006Bard has a strong independent music scene considering its isolation and size. The college's Old Gym was once a popular location for concerts and parties in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. In 2004, the Old Gym was shut down and in spring 2006 transformed into a student-run theater by students Brel Froebe, Julie Rossman, and Kell Condon. Many activities that once took place there, occur in the smaller SMOG building. SMOG is primarily used as a music venue featuring student-run bands.WEB,weblink SMOG, Student.bard.edu, July 8, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20081211055429weblink">weblink December 11, 2008, dead,

Athletics

Bard College teams participate as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III. The Raptors are a member of the Liberty League. Prior conference affiliations include the Skyline Conference and the former Hudson Valley Athletic Conference. Women's sports include basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, volleyball and squash. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer, squash, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field and volleyball.One of the more popular club sports on campus is rugby. Bard College Rugby Football Club fields men's and women's teams that compete in the Tristate Conference, affiliated with National Collegiate Rugby. Additional club sports include: ultimate frisbee, fencing, and equestrian.WEB,weblink Club Sports, Bard College Athletics, October 18, 2019, August 26, 2019,weblink live,

Alumni and faculty

Notable alumni

File:Chevy Chase at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.JPG|Chevy Chase, comedian, writer and actorFile:Lana Wachowski at Fantastic Fest.jpg|Lana Wachowski, film and television director, writer and producerFile:Jonah Hill-4939 (cropped).jpg|Jonah Hill, actorFile:Coen brothers Cannes 2015 2 (CROPPED).jpg|Joel and Ethan Coen, filmmakersFile:Pulitzer2018-mia-farrow-20180530-wp.jpg|Mia Farrow, actressFile:Becker & Fagen of Steely Dan at Pori Jazz 2007.jpg|Steely Dan, rock bandFile:Tom Ford cropped 2009.jpg|Tom Ford, fashion designer and filmmakerFile:Adam Yauch crop.jpg|Adam Yauch, musicianFile:Frances Bean Cobain Jan 2015.jpg|Francis Bean Cobain, visual artist; daughter of Nirvana frontman Kurt CobainFile:Peter Sarsgaard (31957641966) (cropped).jpg|Peter Sarsgaard, actorFile:Pulitzer2018-ronan-farrow-20180530-wp.jpg|Ronan Farrow, journalistFile:Nick Zinner.jpg|Nick Zinner, guitaristFile:Blythe Danner at Met Opera.jpg|Blythe Danner, actressFile:Christopher Guest 2016.jpg|Christopher Guest, screenwriterFile:Raphael Bob-Waksberg.png|Raphael Bob-Waksberg, writer, producerFile:Adam Conover photograph.jpg|Adam Conover, comedianFile:Gaby Hoffman.jpg|Gaby Hoffmann, actressFile:Gia Coppola 2016.png|Gia Coppola, director; member of Coppola and Getty familiesFile:Todd Haynes Cannes 2017.jpg|Todd Haynes, filmmakerFile:Ali Wentworth 2012 Shankbone.JPG|Ali Wentworth, actressFile:Ezra Miller 2016.jpg|Ezra Miller, actor

Notable faculty

File:Kyle-cassidy-neil-gaiman-April-2013.jpg|Neil Gaiman, writerFile:Hannah Arendt 1933.jpg|Hannah Arendt, political theorist and philosopherFile:Ashbery-2010-09-12.jpg|John Ashbery, poetFile:Toni Morrison.jpg|Toni Morrison, novelist, essayist and academicFile:Chinua Achebe, 1966.jpg|Chinua Achebe, author and literary criticFile:Stephen Shore at CO Berlin, 2016.jpg|Stephen Shore, photographerFile:Mitch Epstein-Nina Subin.jpg|Mitch Epstein, photographerFile:Roy Lichtenstein.jpg|Roy Lichtenstein, pop artistFile:Tan Dun.JPG|Tan Dun, composer and conductorFile:Masha Gessen 01.jpg|Masha Gessen, journalist and activistFile:Kelly Reichardt-4432.jpg|Kelly Reichardt, film director and screenwriterFile:Bill T. Jones.jpg|Bill T. Jones, dancer, choreographer, directorFile:Vic Muniz World Economic Forum 2013.jpg|Vik Muniz, artist and photographerFile:Alexander Soros on March 9 2012.jpg|Alexander Soros, philanthropistFile:Simpson, Mona MBFI.jpg|Mona Simpson, novelistFile:TejuCole01(86th&Lexington10 7 13).JPG|Teju Cole, writer, photographer, and art historianFile:Walter Russell Mead - Chatham House 2012.jpg|Walter Russell Mead, academicFile:Daniel Mendelsohn 2018.jpg|Daniel Mendelsohn, writerFile:Ralph Ellison photo portrait seated.jpg|Ralph Ellison, novelist, literary critic, scholar and writerFile:André Aciman Call Me By Your Name Press Conference Berlinale 2017 (cropped).jpg|André Aciman, Writer and professorFile:Orhan Pamuk 2009 Shankbone.jpg|Orhan Pamuk, novelist, academic, and Nobel laureateNotable alumni of Bard include fraternal songwriters Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, comedian and actor Chevy Chase (1967); Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan (1969); actors Blythe Danner (1965), Adrian Grenier, Gaby Hoffmann, Larry Hagman; filmmakers Gia Coppola, Todd Haynes (MFA), Sadie Bennings (MFA), Lana Wachowski (dropped out); Herb Ritts, photographer; Christopher Guest, actor/director (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show); songwriters Billy Steinberg (Madonna's "Like A Virgin," Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors," The Bangles "Eternal Flame"); Anne Bogart, theater director; Howard E. Koch, screenwriter (Casablanca, Letter from an Unknown Woman); David Cote, writer; Adam Conover, comedian and creator of Adam Ruins Everything; Raphael Bob-Waksberg, comedian and creator of Bojack Horseman; classical composer Bruce Wolosoff; Ronan Farrow, journalist who exposed the Harvey Weinstein scandal; writer and social theorist Albert Jay Nock; Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys; and artists Freya PowellWEB, Only Remains Remain {{!, Magazine|url=https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/253|website=www.moma.org|language=en|access-date=2020-05-07|archive-date=April 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200423090709weblink|url-status=live}} and Tschabalala Self.WEB, Artist Tschabalala Self Upends Our Perception of the Female Form,weblink Kazanjian, Dodie, Vogue, April 13, 2020, en, 2020-05-07, April 19, 2020,weblink live, Among the college's most well-known former faculty are Hannah Arendt, Toni Morrison, Heinrich Blücher, Roy Lichtenstein, Mary McCarthy, Arthur Penn, John Ashbery, Richard Teitelbaum, Mary Lee Settle and Chinua Achebe. Current faculty who are well-known include Stephen Shore, An-My Lê, Neil Gaiman, Bill T. Jones, Daniel Mendelsohn, Joan Tower,WEB, The Bard Professor Who Was Named Composer of the Year,weblink 2020-01-21, Hudson Valley Magazine, en-US, 2020-05-07, December 12, 2020,weblink live, Masha Gessen,WEB, The Frontline Interview: Masha Gessen,weblink 2022-07-13, FRONTLINE, en-US, July 13, 2022,weblink live, Kelly Reichardt,WEB, 2021-04-20, 'First Cow' named 2020's best film by New York Film Critics,weblink 2022-07-13, AP NEWS, en, January 28, 2022,weblink live, Francine Prose,NEWS, The Novel, 'The Vixen,' Explores The Moral Ambiguity Of 1950s America, en, NPR.org,weblink 2022-07-13, July 13, 2022,weblink live, Ann Lauterbach, Charles Burnett,WEB, Robb, David, 2021-08-07, Black Hollywood Education Resource Center's 24th Annual Reel Black Men Short Film Festival Begins Saturday,weblink 2022-07-13, Deadline, en-US, July 13, 2022,weblink live, Valeria Luiselli,WEB, 2021-05-20, Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin literary award for Lost Children Archive,weblink 2022-07-13, the Guardian, en, July 13, 2022,weblink live, Tan Dun,WEB, 李雯蕊, Award-winning composer Tan Dun releases new album,weblink 2022-07-13, global.chinadaily.com.cn, Tschabalala Self, and Sky Hopinka.WEB, Sky Hopinka: Film Is the Body {{!, Magazine {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/743 |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en |archive-date=July 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713203124weblink |url-status=live }}

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