Jonathan Becker’s New Book on Youth Voting Rights Featured in Multiple Publications
Jonathan Becker, vice president for Academic Affairs and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, has recently published articles and received coverage in multiple media outlets about his new book, Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses. On November 18 at 5 pm, Upstate Films at the Starr Theater in Rhinebeck is hosting a special multi-media presentation of the book. Free tickets here.
New York State Awards Funding for Bard High School Early College Bronx Campus
The Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Bronx has been announced as the recipient of a $215,000 investment from New York State to support its growth and expansion. The funding is bestowed as part of the Vision 32: Empowering the Bronx Initiative introduced by state Senator Luis R. Sepúlveda, which aims to promote capital investment in infrastructure and programmatic support for organizations across his district. Read More >>New York Times Reports on Bard College’s Efforts to Free Ali Faqirzada ’28
When Bard Baccalaureate student and Afghan asylum seeker Ali Faqirzada ’28 was detained on October 14 after a routine hearing in New York, officials from Bard College and the Episcopal Diocese mobilized their networks to help. Dionne Searcey for the New York Times reports on these ongoing efforts. “The only chance of rescuing this individual from injustice is to make it visible,” President Leon Botstein told the Times. “If you stand for the truth and for learning and all the virtues of a serious education and an examined life and you believe in the idea of justice, you have to act.” Read More >>More Bard News
- Francine Prose for the Guardian: “Ali Faqirzada is an Afghan refugee. He deserves to stay in America”
- Article by Bard Alumna Leslie Kean ’73 Appears in the New York Times
- Members of Bard College Soccer Teams Honored by 2025 College Sports Communicators
- Bard College Celebrates Student Scholars
- Lara Fresko Madra Published in the Los Angeles Review of Books
- The Chronicle of Higher Education Interviewed Roosevelt Montás About the Revival of General Education