Dean of Academic Excellence

Senior Project Support

Here you can find information and resources for the Senior Project, including funding requests and specific opportunities.

Senior Project Funding Request Form

Due: Fall 2026 (will be announced)
Apply here for funding for a senior project.

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Funding Opportunities

  • Stuart Stritzler-Levine Seniors to Seniors Grants
    A prize awarded by the Lifetime Learning Institute, a continuing education program for senior citizens on the Bard campus, to support five undergraduates, one from each of the four College divisions and one from the Continuing Studies Program, in the preparation of their Senior Projects and named in honor of Dean Stuart Stritzler-Levine and his 50th anniversary at Bard College. 
  • Drs. Alexander Bick and Taula Siemiatycka Bick Jewish Studies Research and Travel Award
    In 1985, Professor Mario Bick established an endowed fund to support student research in Jewish studies. This fund, The Drs. Taula Siemiatycka Bick and Alexander Bick Fund, makes grants of up to $1200 available each year to assist students with research and scholarly development pertaining to Jewish studies. Students in all fields are eligible to apply, and applications should describe any relevant coursework in Jewish Studies.
  • Lytle Family Fund
    An award given to one or more seniors who have moderated in American Studies, History or Environmental & Urban Studies to provide support for senior project research, including travel, materials, books and conference fees.
  • Center for the Study of Hate
    The Bard Center for the Study of Hate Fund supports Senior Project research that examines human hatred and its manifestations. By hatred we refer to the “working definition” of hate studies: “the human capacity to define, and then dehumanize or demonize, an ‘other,’ and the processes that inform and give expression to, or can curtail, control, or combat, that capacity.” Hatreds can be visceral (such as white supremacy, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or other ideologies and theologies that target groups for violence or discrimination), or normative (such as historical analyses of hatreds that were viewed by many at the time as just how things were, like slavery before the Civil War, or the tolerance until recently of racist sports team mascots). Students in all fields are eligible to apply.
  • Human Rights Grants
    Awarded annually by the Human Rights Program faculty for the best Senior Project in human rights.

Contact Us

Dean of Academic Excellence
Bard College
Sottery Hall
PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson
New York 12504
[email protected]
845-758-7854