Bard College Receives Luce Foundation Grant to Advance Its Global Network
The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded Bard College a $200,000 grant to extend opportunities for students around the world to take courses offered by the Bard international network in a newly redesigned curriculum. The grant arrives as the College launches the Global Higher Education Alliance for the 21st Century (GHEA21) and the new Bard Global Degree Program for displaced students. GHEA21 provides a full curriculum of regular undergraduate courses taught by faculty around the world. These courses reach over 7,000 students each year across a broad range of geographies and backgrounds.
“The Luce Foundation’s support enables Bard to introduce the next iteration of its cutting-edge model of global higher education,” said Jonathan Becker, executive vice president at Bard College. “Bard and its international partners are expanding and intensifying their programs, which provide unrivaled opportunities for students to pursue global learning throughout their undergraduate studies and which extend these opportunities to displaced students as well as to students for whom study abroad is inaccessible, often for financial reasons.”
GHEA21 introduces an updated curriculum to better complement what partner institutions can offer on their own, and will leverage the diversity of the Bard international network to produce distinctive, value-added educational experiences for students. This redesigned curriculum will consist initially of certificate programs in Civic Engagement, Global Humanities, Global Studies, Human Rights, and Sustainability and Climate Solutions. For more information, visit ghea21.org
The Bard Global Degree is an online degree program for students who have been displaced or threatened by conflict, crisis, or political repression, and who have little or no access to liberal arts education. To learn more, visit globaldegree.bard.edu
Post Date: 09-23-2025
“The Luce Foundation’s support enables Bard to introduce the next iteration of its cutting-edge model of global higher education,” said Jonathan Becker, executive vice president at Bard College. “Bard and its international partners are expanding and intensifying their programs, which provide unrivaled opportunities for students to pursue global learning throughout their undergraduate studies and which extend these opportunities to displaced students as well as to students for whom study abroad is inaccessible, often for financial reasons.”
GHEA21 introduces an updated curriculum to better complement what partner institutions can offer on their own, and will leverage the diversity of the Bard international network to produce distinctive, value-added educational experiences for students. This redesigned curriculum will consist initially of certificate programs in Civic Engagement, Global Humanities, Global Studies, Human Rights, and Sustainability and Climate Solutions. For more information, visit ghea21.org
The Bard Global Degree is an online degree program for students who have been displaced or threatened by conflict, crisis, or political repression, and who have little or no access to liberal arts education. To learn more, visit globaldegree.bard.edu
Post Date: 09-23-2025