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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

  • 9/30
    Saturday

    Saturday, June 24, 2023 – Sunday, November 26, 2023

    Indian Theater

    CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    The first major exhibition to center performance as an origin point for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, Inuit, and Alaska Native artists opens this June at the Center for Curatorial Studies’ (CCS Bard) Hessel Museum of Art. Curated by leading scholar and curator Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Indian Theater traces the history of experimentation that emerged from the Institute of American Indian Arts’ Department for New Native Theater in the late 1960s and continues to inform the practice of Native artists today. The exhibition brings together over 100 works by over 40 artists and collectives, including some new commissions, and performances by Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Unangax̂), Jeffrey Gibson (The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians/Cherokee), Maria Hupfield (Anishnaabek, Wasauksing First Nation / Canada), Kite (Oglala Lakota), and Eric-Paul Riege (Diné). 

    Open Wednesday – Monday, noon – 6:00 pm. Closed Tuesdays.

    12:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art
  • 10/03
    Tuesday

    Tuesday, October 3, 2023

    Disability Access Services Walk-in Q&A

    Kappa House 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Have a question about Disability Access Services? Stop by Kappa House for walk-in questions about our office and services! We will be there in the Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) at 9 Library Road from noon to 2:00 pm on Tuesdays!

    12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Kappa House
  • 10/05
    Thursday

    Thursday, October 5, 2023

    Women of Color United Meeting

    Gilson Place 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Join WOCU for our weekly meeting.

    7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Gilson Place
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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
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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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Insight into Diversity Highlights Innovative LGBTQ+ Studies Program at Bard College at Simon’s Rock

“As legislative attacks continue to threaten the rights and protections of LGBTQ+ students, an innovative new program at Bard College at Simon’s Rock aims to empower them with the professional and social capital to lead the charge for a more inclusive future,” writes Lisa O’Malley for Insight into Diversity. The Bard Queer Leadership Project is envisioned to expand over the next few years into a complete college on the campus of Bard College at Simon’s Rock, becoming the first intentionally Queer-serving college in the world.

The World’s UnFair: Public Exhibition by New Red Order, Cofounded by Alumni Adam Khalil ’11 and Zack Khalil ’14, Profiled in the New York Times

“Give it back.” These are the first words seen by visitors to The World’s UnFair, the newest multimedia work by New Red Order (NRO), a “public secret society” cofounded by brothers and Bard alumni Adam Khalil ’11 and Zack Khalil ’14. World’s Fairs “have historically presented a theory of progress, technological advancement, imperial advancement,” Jackson Polys, who cocreated NRO with the Khalil brothers, told the New York Times. The World’s UnFair, by contrast, subverts expectations with an animatronic beaver who speaks about private land ownership and satirical real estate ads featuring “comically small” portions of land given back to Native groups.

Bard College Hosts Second Annual Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Conference on Indigenous Research Methods and Practice in the Liberal Arts, October 12–14

Bard College will host the second annual conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck from October 12 through 14. The conference, “Indigenous Research Methods and Practice in the Liberal Arts: Refusal, Creation, and Intersectionality,” explores the topic of “research” within the humanities. Building on last year’s conference surrounding methods, viewpoints, and experiences of archives within Native American and Indigenous Studies and African American Studies, this conference explores historically marginalized epistemologies of social sciences and arts research. This is the second of three annual conferences supported by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, part of the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative.

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  • Dean of the College
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  • Student Government
  • DACA and Undocumented Students
  • DEI Programs + Scholarships
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