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We embrace plurality, respect divergent viewpoints, and are committed to understanding the rich spectrum of experiences that comprise our community.

Upcoming Events

  • 3/27
    Monday

    Monday, March 27, 2023

    Food Pantry Open Hours

    We are a supplemental food pantry for the students of Bard. 
    Stevenson Athletic Center 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    2:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Stevenson Athletic Center
  • 3/28
    Tuesday

    Tuesday, March 28, 2023

    Office Hours With Isabella Sokolik from Family Services

    Sottery Hall 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Starting today Campus Case Manager Isabella Sokolik will again host weekly office hours in Sottery 107 on Tuesdays from 2–4 pm.  

    Isabella works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be confidential and you do not need an appointment. 

    Isabella is an advocate from CVSS who offers: information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; connections to counseling or support and additional services groups; and information about criminal reporting.

    You can schedule a meeting in advance by emailing Isabella at [email protected].

    For more information, call 845-758-6822, email [email protected], or visit https://familyservicesny.org/program-areas/victim-services/center-for-victim-safety-and-support-cvss/.

    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Sottery Hall
  • 3/28
    Tuesday

    Tuesday, March 28, 2023

    Open Office Hours: Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence

    Drop by Kappa House Room 102 from 2–4 pm to talk with Dean Aldebot!
    Kappa House, Room 102 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Drop by and let's talk! Email me at [email protected] if these hours do not work for your schedule.

    Looking forward to connecting!

    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Kappa House, Room 102
  • 3/29
    Wednesday

    Wednesday, March 29, 2023

    Photography Reading & Looking Discussion Group

    Open to all!
    Woods Studio 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
    The Photography Reading & Looking Group is for any and all students, staff, and faculty to discuss essays, photographs, and ideas together, and is supported by an Academic Inclusion Grant to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion. The group formed in the fall of 2021 to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue as well as non-hierarchical conversation between students, faculty and staff. This semester we’re reading, Indeterminacy: Thoughts on Time, the Image, and Race(ism) by David Campany & Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa.

    5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Woods Studio
  • 3/30
    Thursday

    Thursday, March 30, 2023

    Food Pantry Open Hours

    We are a supplemental food pantry for the students of Bard. 
    Stevenson Athletic Center 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Stevenson Athletic Center
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Bard Student Support and Relief Fund

Bard Student Support and Relief Fund

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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.

Join us in making a donation to help students thrive no matter what comes up.

Have a program or departmental resource we should know about? Contact Haron Atkinson at [email protected].

Our Mission
Photo by AnnAnn Puttithanasorn ’23

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:

  • Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence
    The dean of inclusive excellence acts as the primary contact for students, staff, and faculty in promoting an inclusive campus climate. The Dean’s Office presents events and programming, coordinates training, and convenes the Council for Inclusive Excellence.
  • Office of Equity and Inclusion Programs
    Equity and Inclusion Programs at Bard College support scholars from a variety of backgrounds who seek to attain a rigorous liberal arts education. With the guidance of professional staff and peer mentors, scholars can create a path of personal and academic success at Bard. OEI oversees the HEOP, BOP, ECO, and Posse scholarship programs at Bard.
  • Title IX and Nondiscrimination
    The Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination is dedicated to preventing, responding to, and remedying incidents of gender-based misconduct, bias, discrimination, and harassment. The Office addresses all complaints of discrimination and harassment, and also provides education and programming to all members of the Bard community.
  • Disability Access Services
    Disability Access Services strives to support students with disabilities holistically, offering accommodations and additional support. We aim to work with all campus constituents to create a campus environment that is inclusive for students with disabilities, by promoting accessibility across campus.

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.
Land Acknowledgment + Slavery Acknowledgment
More on Bard's History

Reporting

  • WE ENCOURAGE MEMBERS OF THE BARD COMMUNITY TO MAKE THE COLLEGE AWARE OF ANY INSTANCES OF DISCRIMINATION OR HARASSMENT.
    Reports can be made to the College using the Bard College Incident Reporting Form or the Title IX Reporting Form, or by calling the Dean of Inclusive Excellence at 845-758-7492. Any emergency should be reported to Campus Safety and Security at 845-758-7777.

Campus Resources

Gilson Place: Dedicated in Support of Students of Color 

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.

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Student Clubs
Tango Club at the Bard College Club Fair. Photo by AnnAnn Puttithanasorn ’23

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.

  • Student Government
    Student Government provides leadership for students interested in making Bard College a better place, and is always ready to support students working on issues of diversity and inclusion.
  • Center for Student Life and Advising
    Housing the Dean of Student Affairs Office, CSLA provides support to students struggling to figure out what diversity means, what they want it to mean, and how to bridge the gap between the two.
  • Office of Student Activities
    The OSA helps students plan programs, organize events, and lead clubs in an effort to make Bard a more diverse and accepting place, all while keeping students engaged and making sure they have fun.

More Campus Resources

Spotlight on the Posse Program
Posse graduates in 2022. Photo by Brennan Cavanaugh

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.

More about Equity + Inclusion Programs at Bard

NEWSROOM

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Dariel Vasquez ’17 Featured on the Today Show, Speaking about [email protected] and the Importance of Mentorship

Bard alumnus Dariel Vasquez ’17 appeared on the Today Show, speaking to the importance of peer mentoring and how it changed his life as a teenager. Now he’s paying it forward with [email protected], a program he cofounded as a Bard student to support young men of color in high school and through college. “It’s a story of making sure that we remember to always take chances on our young people and believe in them,” says Vasquez.

“Self-determination is the basis for any decolonial movement”: Candice Hopkins Interviewed in ArtReview about Indigenous Studies and Native Art Initiatives at Bard

Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation) CCS ’03 recently joined Bard’s faculty as part of the College’s transformative initiatives in Native American and Indigenous studies, developed in partnership with Forge Project and supported by a $50 million endowment. Hopkins, CCS Bard Fellow in Indigenous Art History and Curatorial Studies and Forge Project’s executive director, speaks with Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds (Diné/Navajo) for ArtReview about Indigenous self-determination and the importance of this new collaboration between the Native-led arts and cultural organization Forge and Bard College. “We realized that we could attempt to enact quite radical institutional change through a partnership between Forge and Bard,” said Hopkins.

Myra Young Armstead Spoke with the Times Union about the Life and Legacy of James F. Brown, “One of the Country’s First Black Master Gardeners”

While slave narratives—“first-person retellings of the enslaved experience”—were persuasive to white abolitionists and widely distributed, quieter but no less important details about the early years of emancipation can be found in the diaries of one of the country’s first Black Master Gardeners, James F. Brown. Myra Young Armstead, vice president for academic inclusive excellence and Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies, spoke with the Times Union about Brown’s life and legacy.

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  • DEI Programs + Scholarships
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