Bard Microcollege Holyoke Alumnae Shacoria Baldwin and Jacqueline Velez Featured on New England Public Media’s Connecting Point
Two young mothers share how they obtained a college degree through the Bard Microcollege program in Holyoke, Massachusetts, an accredited associate’s degree program that provides a pathway to higher education for low-income women.
Bard Microcollege Holyoke Alumnae Shacoria Baldwin and Jacqueline Velez Featured on New England Public Media’s Connecting Point
The Care Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where Bard Microcollege Holyoke is housed.
Courtesy of the Care Center
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Post Date: 09-15-2020
Reporter Ronan Farrow ’04 Named to Fortune’s List of 40 Under 40 in Media and Entertainment
The Bard alum was recognized for his reporting of the Harvey Weinstein case—which earned Farrow a Pulitzer at the age of 30—his subsequent exposé on the behavior of NBC anchor Matt Lauer, and the publication in 2019 of his bestseller Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators.Reporter Ronan Farrow ’04 Named to Fortune’s List of 40 Under 40 in Media and Entertainment
Bard alumnus Ronan Farrow ’04
Post Date: 09-09-2020
There Has Never Been a Better Time to Watch Disclosure on Netflix, Writes Sage Dolan-Sandrino ’23
Bard sophomore Sage Dolan-Sandrino reviews Disclosure, Sam Feder and Laverne’s Cox’s documentary on the history of the depiction of transgender people in film and media. “The role trans representation has played in my own understanding of my gender identity has directly led to pursue my goals of becoming a filmmaker, director, photographer, and content creator,” writes Sage.There Has Never Been a Better Time to Watch Disclosure on Netflix, Writes Sage Dolan-Sandrino ’23
Bard sophomore Sage Dolan-Sandrino ’23
Sage Dolan-Sandrino is a GLAAD Campus Ambassador. She serves as the founder and creative director for TEAM Creative Studio and a board member for GUCCI’s Chime for Change initiative. Sage was also named to GLAAD’s inaugural 20 Under 20 List, presented by Teen Vogue.
Post Date: 09-09-2020
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Bard Alumnus Azikiwe Mohammed ’05 Talks to Fellow Artist Devin N. Morris about Form as Language, and the Spaces We Inhabit
Bard Alumnus Azikiwe Mohammed ’05 Talks to Fellow Artist Devin N. Morris about Form as Language, and the Spaces We Inhabit
“The spaces Black people inhabit are at once physical, immaterial and carried thru our bones, thru time and back out into the world,” says Azikiwe Mohammed ’05. “Thru drawing, collage, sculpture and a variety of works that swing between those spaces, Devin N. Morris provides us with a look at the entirety of a language at once gay, Black and deeply personal, while maintaining a familiarity that makes his grandmother’s house in Baltimore feel like my grandmother’s house in Westbury, Long Island.”View of Azikiwe Mohammed’s ongoing project “Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime,” 2017, Knockdown Center, New York. Photo courtesy the artist
Post Date: 08-18-2020
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Senior Project Spotlight: Bernadette Benjamin ’20
Senior Project Spotlight: Bernadette Benjamin ’20
Sociology major Bernadette Benjamin’s Senior Project focuses on understanding the experiences of black women in Japan and how women within the black diaspora navigate in that country. In her research, the Brooklyn, New York, native concentrates on how black women perceive their identity—whether racial, gender, national, or combined identity—in their interactions and encounters with others. Bernadette utilizes the idea of “controlling images” by Patricia Hill Collins and the book Stigma by Erving Goffman to evaluate the mechanisms black women use to analyze their experiences and sense of belonging in Japanese society. She also takes Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson to explain the citizen-versus-foreigner dichotomy in Japan and how that contrast, in turn, affects black women’s abilities to integrate into Japanese communities.Bernadette Benjamin ’20
Bernadette will soon travel to Japan to begin the JET (Japanese Exchange and Teaching) program. She hopes to remain in Japan for two years before prepping to go to law school to study either educational or international law. While her current plans depend on the spread of COVID-19, she is optimistic about the plans she has in store.
Post Date: 07-28-2020
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Bard College Berlin Graduate Muhannad Qaiconie ’20 Featured in Der Spiegel Story Exploring Syrian Refugees Living in Exile in Germany
Bard College Berlin Graduate Muhannad Qaiconie ’20 Featured in Der Spiegel Story Exploring Syrian Refugees Living in Exile in Germany
“We wanted to create a home for ourselves in exile,” says Qaiconie, of the Arabic library, Baynatna, he cofounded in Berlin. “It would be nice if the Arabic language could find its place in the German cultural scene.”Bard College Berlin graduate Muhannad Qaiconie ’20. Photo by Milos Djuric, courtesy Der Spiegel
Post Date: 07-28-2020
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Distinguished Writer in Residence Masha Gessen Traces the Evolution of Department of Homeland Security from the Wake of 9/11 to the Streets of Portland
Distinguished Writer in Residence Masha Gessen Traces the Evolution of Department of Homeland Security from the Wake of 9/11 to the Streets of Portland
“As we learn more about what is happening in Portland—as footage of federal troops waging war on protesters floods social media, and as the President threatens to send his foot soldiers to other large cities—we are watching the perfect and perhaps inevitable combination of a domestic-security superagency and a President who rejects all mechanisms of accountability, including the Senate confirmation process,” writes Gessen in the New Yorker.Federal agents in military-style uniforms confront protesters in Portland, Oregon, in July. Photo by Mason Trinca / NYT / Redux
Post Date: 07-28-2020
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Bard College Announces President’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice
Bard College Announces President’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice
To the Bard College community,
America faces an unprecedented opportunity to confront the fundamental and tragic rift between the ideals invoked in the nation’s founding enshrined in its Declaration of Independence, and the reality, from the foundation of white settler domination of this continent to the treatment of indigenous and Black populations, who to this day remain subjected to sustained suffering, oppression, and discrimination. The widespread protest and outrage at recent killings of Black Americans have placed the nation’s systemic discrimination against people of color into the forefront. By acting to redress this long history of racism, we can unite the nation in a manner consistent with the belief that we are all “created equal”, with the same right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.
Every institution in American civil society, particularly colleges and universities, must play a part in creating fundamental change. To that end, each institution should assess its past, analyze its present practices, and produce a plan for the future.
Therefore, I have created the President’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice at Bard College.
It is made up of 30 members drawn from the college’s faculty, students, and staff. It will be chaired by Kahan Sablo with Dinaw Mengestu and Myra Armstead serving as Vice Chairs. It is charged with conducting an audit of Bard’s past, reporting on the present state of affairs, and recommending a plan of action for the future. The Commission is being asked to complete its work by January 1, 2021.
I want to thank the Commission members for agreeing to serve. The members of the Commission are:- Kahan Sablo, CHAIR, Dean of Inclusive Excellence
- Myra Armstead, VICE CHAIR, Vice President of Academic Inclusive Excellence and Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies
- Dinaw Mengestu, VICE CHAIR, Professor of Written Arts and Director, Written Arts Program
- Krista Caballero, Associate Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities
- Nicole Caso, Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair, Division of Languages and Literature
- Erin Cannan, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Civic Engagement
- Mirelva Colon, Counselor
- Adrian Costa, Speaker of the Student Body
- Deirdre d’Albertis, Dean of the College and Professor of English
- Duhita Das, Student Leader
- Omar Encarnacion, Professor of Political Studies
- Donna Ford ‘80, Visiting Associate Professor of Literature and American Studies
- John Gomez, Director of Security
- Alexander Hall ‘17, Housing Associate, Bard Prison Initiative
- Cammie Jones, Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and Civic Engagement
- Gabriel Mendes, Director of Public Health Programs, Bard Prison Initiative
- Stefan M. Méndez-Diez, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- A. Sayeeda Moreno, Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts
- Darnell Pierce, Assistant Dean of Students and Director of the First-Year Experience
- Miles Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Historical Studies and Latin American and Iberian Studies
- Michael Sadowski, Executive Director of Bard Early College Hudson and Associate Professor, Bard MAT Program
- Kimberly Sargeant ‘14, Assistant Director of Access and Equity Programs
- Cerina Shippey, Student Leader
- Whitney Slaten, Assistant Professor of Music
- Jovanny Suriel, Assistant Dean of Civic Engagement and Director of Career Development
- Erika van der Velden ‘04, Director of Disability Resources
- Dumaine Williams ‘03, Vice President and Dean of the Bard Early Colleges
- Manny Williams, Student Leader
- Caleb Wyatt, Student Leader
- Shuo Zhang, Assistant Professor of Physics
Leon Botstein
President
Post Date: 07-19-2020
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Bard College Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Harvard-MIT Lawsuit against Trump Administration’s New ICE Guidelines for International Students
Bard College Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Harvard-MIT Lawsuit against Trump Administration’s New ICE Guidelines for International Students
Bard College has joined an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to block the new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) guidelines for international students announced last week. The guidelines seek to strip international students of their visas if their course of study is entirely online. Bard signed on to the brief filed by the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, of which it is a founding member.Stevenson Library at Bard College. Photo by Scott Barrow
In a letter to the community last week, Bard College President Leon Botstein wrote, “We consider these guidelines to be senseless, ill-conceived, and completely at odds with Bard’s mission and its role as an international partner in higher education.”
The College will continue to support international students currently enrolled, or considering enrollment at Bard, and will continue working with its representatives in Congress to strike down these guidelines and to push for action to speed visa approvals for international students.
Post Date: 07-13-2020
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- 9/26SaturdayOnline Event
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Community Action Fund Application is Open
Online Event The Bard Center for Civic Engagement and Career Development Office are pleased to announce a new Community Action Fund to support student-led direct action. The fund provides financial support to students and student groups that are working to address two critical issues: racial justice and voter advocacy. Community and civic engagement are powerful tools to redefine and rebuild a more knowledgeable, driven, and just community. A rolling application is open to those interested in racial justice and/or voter advocacy. Students and/or student groups with an interest in creatively tackling these issues, whether in a short term or long term project, can apply for funding that ranges from $250 to $1,500.
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- 10/05Monday6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
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Bill T Jones
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This will be an evening talk between Bill T. Jones and our own Roger Berkowitz. Together, they will be examining the residual effects of the recent Floyd protests and exploring the racial imaginary in order to tease out a vision of the future.
BILL T. JONES (Artistic Director/Cofounder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is the Associate Artist of the 2020 Holland Festival and recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed FELA!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation CALLAWAY Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Mr. Jones was recognized as Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named him “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.”
Mr. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Mr. Jones is the Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting and educating. For more information visit www.newyorklivearts.org.
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Tough Talks: Kirk Johnson
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This will be an evening talk between Kirk Johnson and his special guest Marie Stroughther, founder of African American Conservatives. Together, they will be examining the residual effects of the recent George Floyd protests and exploring the racial imaginary in order tease out a vision of the future.
Kirk A. Johnson is the author of African American Tea Party Supporters: Explaining a Political Paradox. He teaches sociology and African American studies at the University of Mississippi, where he studies race and news media. His interest in politics and race dates to his work at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, where he testified before congressional committees on protecting at-risk populations from toxic pollutants, and as senior researcher on the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1965-1980." He is also founding editor of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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- 10/19Monday6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
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Tough Talks: Juliana Huxtable and Kimberly N. Foster
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This will be an evening talk between the prolific Juliana Huxtable and her special guest Kimberly Foster, founder and host of For Harriet. Together, they will be examining the residual effects of the recent George Floyd protests and exploring their own racial imaginary in order tease out a vision of the future.
Juliana Huxtable is an artist, writer, and dj/musician. Huxtable has exhibited and performed at a number of venues including Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Project Native Informant, Artists Space, the New Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and the Musée d'Art Moderne. She is author of Mucus in My Pineal Gland and coauthor, with Hannah Black, of Life: A Novel. Her poetry and visual work were included in the 2015 Triennial at the New Museum. She is the recipient of the 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant and is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow.
Kimberly Foster is a writer, cultural critic and founder and editor-in-chief of For Harriet, a multi-platform digital community for Black women, and Black Girls Gather, a national live event series.
Founded in 2010, For Harriet is a leading voice for Black women’s journalism and storytelling. Kimberly began For Harriet while she was an undergraduate at Harvard University.
The site has been featured in the New York Times, ESSENCE, and Forbes and Huffington Post. Kimberly has written for The Guardian, Newsweek, Quartz, and Fortune, and appeared on OWN, Huffpost Live, NPR, MSNBC, BET.com, and many local radio stations across the country commenting on culture and current events.
Kimberly's video commentaries on current events and feminism have been viewed million of times.
In 2016, she was named to Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 list. In 2017 ESSENCE named her one of 50 founders to watch. In 2019, her video appeared on OWN’s “Black Women OWN the Conversation.” She has also been recognized as a leading voice online by Teen Vogue and Huffington Post.
Kimberly has been invited to give talks at dozens of universities across the country including keynotes at Cornell University, Boston College, and Emory University. She holds a degree in African American Studies.
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