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Bard College Named Among Best Colleges in the U.S. for Student Voting 

For the second year, Bard College has been named by Washington Monthly among the U.S. colleges doing the most to turn students into citizens. Bard's student-led voting rights initiative Election@Bard has defended students’ right to vote since 2014 and is supported by Bard’s Center for Civic Engagement. In last year’s presidential election, Bard College hosted an on-campus polling location for the first time after a court ruling that followed more than two decades of student activism. Read More >>

Professor Sanjib Baruah’s In the Name of the Nation Wins an ICAS Book Prize

Bard College Political Studies Professor Sanjib Baruah’s In the Name of the Nation (Stanford 2020) has won the biennial International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize for the Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the Non-Specialist Reader Accolade. “Controversies around new Indian laws on citizenship for migrants and refugees from neighbouring countries are embedded in the complicated colonial and post-/neo-colonial history of the Northeast region. In this relevant book, Baruah successfully ‘translates’ this complex political history of ethnic, religious and linguistic identity conflicts in accessible terms for non-specialists,” writes ICAS. Read More >>