Upcoming Events
- 12/09Friday10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Kappa House, Room 110
Friday, December 9, 2022
Open Office Hours: Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence
Drop by Kappa House Room 110 from 10 am–noon to talk with Dean Aldebot!
Kappa House, Room 110 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Drop by and let's talk! Email me at [email protected] if these hours do not work for your schedule.
Looking forward to connecting! - 12/13Tuesday2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Sottery Hall
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Office Hours With Isabella Sokolik from Family Services
Sottery Hall 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Bard College’s Campus Case Manager Isabella Sokolik will host regular office hours in Sottery 104 on Tuesdays from 2–4 pm via Zoom.
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 private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 2–4 pm.
CVSS offers: Information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; Advocates who are there to support and believe you Connection to counseling or support groups; Information about police reporting and the criminal justice system; and Help finding additional services for student/faculty needs.If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Isabella directly at [email protected] or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at [email protected] with your request.
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/. - 12/13Tuesday2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Kappa House, Room 110
Bard Student Support and Relief Fund
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
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:
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.
Reporting
Campus Resources
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.
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.
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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. -
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. -
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.
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.
NEWSROOM
Associate Dean of Civic Engagement Brian Mateo Included in the 2022 U.S. National Security & Foreign Affairs Leadership List
For the second year, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in partnership with the Diversity in National Security Network (DINSN) announced their U.S. National Security & Foreign Affairs Leadership List. Brian Mateo, associate dean of civic engagement, was named among the 2022 cohort, which is meant “to spotlight leaders of diverse backgrounds in the fields of foreign affairs and national security.” “I feel incredibly honored to be recognized on this list alongside an impressive group of individuals working across multiple sectors,” Mateo said.
Crisis Makes a Book Club, A New Exhibition by Xaviera Simmons ’05, Reviewed in the New York Times
“Everybody loves a Toni Morrison, an Audre Lorde, a James Baldwin,” Bard alumna Xaviera Simmons ’05 said to the New York Times. “Books are fabulous, but you can’t stay in a book club or a reading circle or a listening stance and expect things to miraculously change.” Simmons’s new exhibition, Crisis Makes a Book Club, puts the question of the efficacy of reading groups as a means of accomplishing systemic change at the fore.
Bard Alumna Lexi Parra ’18 for the Washington Post: As Gang, Police Violence Rages, a Caracas Neighborhood Tries to Connect
On January 7, 2021, Venezuela’s Special Action Forces raided the La Vega neighborhood of Caracas, leaving 23 people dead in what the community calls the “La Vega massacre.” The special police unit has been accused of targeting working-class neighborhoods, criminalizing young men for where they live as it attempts to root out gang activity. As part of an ongoing project supported by the Pulitzer Center and a Getty Images Inclusion Grant, Bard alumna Lexi Parra ’18 gets to know the women of La Vega who are maintaining their community and pushing back against state and gang violence.