Bard College Receives $55,926 NetVUE Grant from the Council of Independent Colleges to Establish Bard AMP Hub to Amplify Vocational Exploration and Meaning-Making Initiatives
Bard College first-year students during the Language and Thinking Program, an intensive introduction to the liberal arts and sciences that takes place every August. Photo by Karl Rabe
Bard College has received a $55,926 grant from the Council of Independent Colleges and supported by the Lilly Endowment Inc., through their Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE) program, to establish the Bard AMP Hub, which aims to foster a vital and sustainable network of campus partners, capable of and dedicated to engaging students in conversations on amplifying meaning-making and purpose in their lives. The Bard AMP Hub will serve as a means of connecting various programs and initiatives through which students currently engage in vocational exploration on campus—from initiatives within the Language and Thinking, First-Year Seminar, and Citizen Science programs to those within the offices of the Dean of the College, Dean of Student Affairs, Dean of Studies, Career Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Disability Access Services.
Building upon successful efforts to engage key faculty, staff, and administrators from across the undergraduate curriculum and cocurriculum, the NetVUE grant will expand the scope of vocational engagement to professionals throughout the College and focus on professional development opportunities designed to support students in cultivating meaning-making and purpose in their life and work. Faculty, staff, and administrators will have the opportunity to join reading groups, attend keynote talks, and engage in workshops, including reflection workshops and facilitator training workshops, all towards earning a Bard AMP Certificate of Completion. Certified faculty and staff who have completed a facilitator training workshop would then be credentialed to facilitate future reading groups and workshops, creating a sustainable stream of leaders to carry forward future iterations of programming. Nicholas Alton Lewis, associate vice president for academic initiatives and associate dean of the College, and Antonio Ortiz, visiting instructor in the humanities and program associate in the Office of the Dean of the College are the project leaders.
“We are incredibly grateful to NetVUE for their generous support. Through the program development grant we hope to foster a campus-wide network of professionals dedicated to engaging students in conversations and practices that invite self-reflection, that explore meaning-making and purpose across the various curricular and cocurricular landscapes of learning in the undergraduate experience,” said Nicholas Alton Lewis.
Post Date: 03-21-2024
Building upon successful efforts to engage key faculty, staff, and administrators from across the undergraduate curriculum and cocurriculum, the NetVUE grant will expand the scope of vocational engagement to professionals throughout the College and focus on professional development opportunities designed to support students in cultivating meaning-making and purpose in their life and work. Faculty, staff, and administrators will have the opportunity to join reading groups, attend keynote talks, and engage in workshops, including reflection workshops and facilitator training workshops, all towards earning a Bard AMP Certificate of Completion. Certified faculty and staff who have completed a facilitator training workshop would then be credentialed to facilitate future reading groups and workshops, creating a sustainable stream of leaders to carry forward future iterations of programming. Nicholas Alton Lewis, associate vice president for academic initiatives and associate dean of the College, and Antonio Ortiz, visiting instructor in the humanities and program associate in the Office of the Dean of the College are the project leaders.
“We are incredibly grateful to NetVUE for their generous support. Through the program development grant we hope to foster a campus-wide network of professionals dedicated to engaging students in conversations and practices that invite self-reflection, that explore meaning-making and purpose across the various curricular and cocurricular landscapes of learning in the undergraduate experience,” said Nicholas Alton Lewis.
Post Date: 03-21-2024