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Bard College Catalogue 2009-2010
2009-2010
Bard College: A Selective Chronology
1860—Bard College is founded as St. Stephen's College by John Bard, in association with the New York City leadership of the Episcopal Church. Bard came from a family of physicians who played significant roles in the launching of Columbia University, New York Hospital, and New York City's first free public library.
1866—The College grants degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, in addition to the preseminarian program.
1928—St. Stephen's becomes an undergraduate college of Columbia University.
1929—Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes a trustee and serves until 1933.
1934—The College is renamed to honor its founder. A new educational program is adapted under President Donald Tewksbury that is based on the Oxford tutorial. It includes a second-year assessment (Moderation) and a Senior Project—both pillars of the Bard education today.
1944—Bard withdraws its affiliation with Columbia in order to become coeducational.
1947—Radio station WXBC begins as a Senior Project. It continues to broadcast today.
1952—The innovative Common Course, designed by Heinrich Bluecher, is inaugurated. It is the forerunner of the current First-Year Seminar.
1956—Bard welcomes 325 Hungarian refugee students to participate in the Orientation Program, which provides instruction in English and orientation to life in the United States.
1960—The College celebrates its centennial year. Under President Reamer Kline, it undergoes a tremendous expansion in buildings, grounds, faculty and student body size, as well as core curricula.
1975—Leon Botstein arrives as the 14th president of the College and further expands the educational program by integrating the progressive tutorial system with the classical legacy of St. Stephen's.
1978—The Bard Center is founded.
1979—Bard assumes responsibility for Simon's Rock Early College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
1981—Bard launches its first affiliated graduate program, the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, which offers a master of fine arts degree. The first Workshop in Language and Thinking is held for entering students.
1982—The Institute for Writing and Thinking is founded.
1986—The Jerome Levy Economics Institute is founded (now the Levy Economics Institute). Bard creates the Excellence and Equal Cost Scholarship Program.
1988—The Graduate School of Environmental Studies (now the Bard Center for Environmental Policy) offers a master of science in environmental studies.
1990—The Center for Curatorial Studies is founded. The literary journal Conjunctions makes its home at Bard. The Bard Music Festival, designed to illuminate the life, work, and times of an individual composer, presents its first season.
1991—The Program for International Education (PIE) brings young people from emerging democracies to study at Bard for a year.
1993—The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture opens in New York City.
1998—The Institute for International Liberal Education is founded with a mission to advance the theory and practice of international liberal arts education. Programs under its auspices include the International Human Rights Exchange and a joint study program with Central European University in Budapest.
1999—The Bard Prison Initiative is founded to bring new opportunities for higher education into the correctional system of New York State. Smolny College, a collaborative venture between Bard and Russia's Saint Petersburg State University, opens.
2001—Bard and the New York City Department of Education launch Bard High School Early College, a four-year alternative school in downtown Manhattan.
2002—Bard offers the first full major in human rights at a U.S. college.
2003—The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by architect Frank Gehry, opens. Bard and the International Center of Photography join forces to offer an M.F.A. degree in photography.
2004—The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program welcomes its first class.
2005—The Bard College Conservatory of Music opens, offering a unique five-year dual-degree (B.M., B.A.) program.
2006—The Conservatory of Music offers two graduate programs: an M. Music degree in vocal performance and an M.F.A. in conducting, through the Conductors Institute. The Center for Curatorial Studies inaugurates the Hessel Museum of Art.
2007—The Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation opens.
2008—Bard High School Early College II opens in Queens. The Bard Urban Studies Program in New Orleans offers an eight-week program in which students investigate urbanism, ecology, and social policy through intensive seminars and internships.
2009—Bard announces plans to partner with Al-Quds University on the Honors College for Liberal Arts and Sciences, a Master of Arts in Teaching program, and the Model School for grades 5 through 12, located in Abu Dies, in the Jerusalem Governorate. The Lynda and Stewart Resnick Science Laboratories is completed. The parliament of reality, the first permanent outdoor installation in the United States by renowned Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, opens. Bard graduates its largest class, 404 undergraduate students.
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