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Bard Student Support and Relief Fund
Over 70% of our students receive aid from the College, but often that is not enough to help cover the expenses of a new academic year, and certainly not the unexpected or unanticipated challenges that arise. The Student Support and Relief Fund coordinates with Divisions and Programs to provide relief from undue financial stress.
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Our Mission
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at Bard seeks to materialize our commitment to plurality, dialogue, and rigorous study. We strive to create a learning environment that upholds the College’s mission to meaningfully include the voices, works, and ideas of communities and cultures historically marginalized in liberal arts and sciences education. DEI at Bard aims to work at the systemic as well as the interpersonal level to address the implicit and explicit ways racism, sexism, classism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and religious discrimination impact the learning process.
Who does the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Bard?
DEI is an institutional mission at Bard College, tasking all of us with doing the work of furthering that mission. Fostering a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus is an effort shared by those who live and work at the College—students, faculty, and staff.
There are four offices on campus that lead the College’s DEI work. They are:
Acknowledging Bard's Origins
Bard College acknowledges that its origins are intertwined with the systems of racial injustice that have been a part of this nation’s history from its foundations.
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Gilson Place: Dedicated in Support of Students of Color
Gilson Place, formerly Grey Stone Cottage, is a space dedicated to the advancement of students of color. Bard faculty and student leaders collaborated on its renovation and redesign. Gilson Place supports the academic, personal, and social success of members of the Bard community historically underrepresented in liberal arts and sciences education and fosters dialogue about race and culture on campus. The space is named for Alexander Gilson (c. 1824–89), an African American who labored for 50 years at Montgomery Place, now part of the Bard College campus. Gilson became head gardener at Montgomery Place and eventually opened up his own nursery business.
Student Clubs
Student clubs related to diversity, equity, and inclusion at the College include the Bard Christian Fellowship, the Latin American Student Organization, and the Trans Lyfe Collective. For more information about these and other clubs, visit student.bard.edu/clublist.
Spotlight on the Posse Program
The Posse Foundation recruits talented public high school students who might have been overlooked by traditional college selection processes, forming them into supportive Posses and connecting them with participating colleges. Every year Bard accepts a Posse of 10 students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential, offering them full-tuition scholarships.
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Bard College Receives $55,926 NetVUE Grant from the Council of Independent Colleges to Establish Bard AMP Hub to Amplify Vocational Exploration and Meaning-Making Initiatives
Supported by the Council of Independent Colleges and Lilly Endowment Inc., through their Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education NetVUE program, the Bard AMP Hub will aim to foster a vital and sustainable network of campus partners, capable of and dedicated to engaging students in conversations on amplifying meaning-making and purpose in their lives.
Bard College Presents Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition, on View April 6–12 at Montgomery Place Mansion
Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck and Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College proudly host Returning Home, an exhibition curated by Rethinking Place Post-Baccalaureate Fellow Olivia Tencer ’22 and Rethinking Place Administrative Coordinator Melina Roise ’21, open from April 6 to 12, 2024. This groundbreaking exhibition features works by four contemporary Indigenous photographers, Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi Indian Tribe), and Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow)), along with a written commission by Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican) and archival records of local land transfers and the United States’ Indian boarding school history. The exhibition, centered around narratives of Indigenous families, particularly women and children, will delve into the experiences of Native peoples facing settler colonialism, focusing specifically on Indigenous child removal practices and policies.
Bard College Hosts Zambian Writer and Harvard Professor Namwali Serpell as Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Quinney-Morrison Lecturer on April 11
Zambian writer and Professor of English at Harvard Namwali Serpell will deliver the Quinney-Morrison Lecture at Bard College. Sponsored by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, a Mellon Foundation Humanities for All Times project, the Quinney-Morrison Lecture Series celebrates the work of trailblazing teacher and Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican citizen Electa “Wuhwehweeheemeew” Quinney and the American novelist, essayist, and editor Toni Morrison. Serpell will present the lecture “Unnoticed and as Beautiful: The Native American Figure in Toni Morrison’s Literature” on Thursday, April 11 at 3:00 pm ET in Olin Auditorium at Bard College.