Campus Activities

Get Involved!
Many activities enrich life on and off campus, from garage-band concerts at SMOG, a student-run music venue, to language tables, where students share meals and practice conversation in Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian, and other languages. Other student-led activities include the Root Cellar, which has an impressive collection of zines; Sawkill Coffee House; and Thursday Night Live, which consists of acoustic concerts, contests, open mic nights, and more at Down the Road Café.

Upcoming Campus Events

Student Government and Clubs

  • Bard Student Government
    BSG is a democratic forum that provides student representation on College committees and administers funding for student-run organizations.
  • Office of Student Activities
    OSA works with students and staff to organize hikes, concerts, dances, parties, comedy nights, substance-free entertainment alternatives, and athletic events.
  • Student Clubs
    Students can choose from 150 active clubs, ranging in subject from engineering to tango. Any student can start a club, and new clubs begin each semester.

Campus + Community

Center for Civic Engagement

Center for Civic Engagement

Bard uses its campus and resources to develop and support robust and sustainable partnerships to address local, national, and global problems, reach underserved populations, and tackle critical issues of education and public policy. The Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) at Bard College supports, coordinates, and promotes a wide array of student and institutional initiatives—from the student-initiated Trustee Leader Scholar Program, to the public high school early college movement and degree-granting programs in prisons.

Get Involved with CCE

Trustee Leader Scholar
Photo by Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00

Trustee Leader Scholar

The TLS program is an incubator for students with big ideas who are committed to civic action. 

Learn More About TLS