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2013-14 Admission Information

BARD MAT PROGRAM STILL ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2013-14 ACADEMIC YEAR!

Up to $50,000 in fellowships and scholarships are available.

Final Deadlines:
  • California Campus: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO AUGUST 1ST!!

For application requirements and other information click HERE or APPLY NOW.

California Campus

The California MAT campus is still accepting applications for literature, history, mathematics, and science (biology) for fall 2013. Both urban and rural pathways are available.
READ MORE or APPLY NOW.


Los Angeles Campus
Longy School of Music
of Bard College

The Longy School of Music of Bard College MAT program in Los Angeles, CA is still accepting applications for Summer 2013. READ MORE or APPLY NOW!




MAT News

Expansion of Bard MAT's California campuses! Urban and rural pathways available. Teacher Quality Partnership grant of up to $30,000 and tuition scholarship of up to $20,000 available for both pathways. READ MORE

Bard MAT Announces Computer Science Teaching Fellowships
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Bard MAT Peace Corps Collaboration
The Bard MAT Program is delighted to announce a new collaboration with the Peace Corps in which we serve as a partner school for the Coverdell Fellows Program for returning Peace Corps Volunteers. READ MORE

In the News!

Listen to a podcast interview with MAT Professor of Education, Michael Sadowski. Michael speaks about his new book on successful immigrant students, Portraits of Promise.

Read the latest from MAT faculty Thai Jones and Derek Furr.

Read about the new book of prose poems from Julia Bloch, MAT Professor of Literature titled, Letters to Kelly Clarkson.

Michael Sadowski, MAT Professor of Education featured in The Advocate

Read the Op-ed piece, How to Really Make It Better: Helping LGBTQ youth find positive means of self-expression may protect them from self-destructive behaviors into adulthood.

Bard MAT Grad Gives Students a Glimpse of the Wild

Read a Poughkeepsie Journal interview with Bard MAT Biology grad, Colleen Bucci, who is bringing authentic ecology issues into the classroom.

MAT History Graduate Featured on Huffington Post

Josh Hatala, a Social Studies and English Language Arts teacher in Rensselaer, New York, is profiled in Lydia Dobyns article. Read More

Read Recent Commentary from MAT Director Carol Meyer

Tests Don't Assess Real Learning
Students Should Be Focus of Test Criteria

Charter School/Affordable Housing Complex to Rise in South Bronx

The Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corp. breaks ground on a 355,000-square-foot complex hosting low-income housing with an application pending for the WHEDco Bard Academy Charter School. Read More