Election Day on Bard’s Campus Featured in Inside Higher Ed

Bard College, now in its fifth year of having a consistent polling site on its Annandale campus, was featured in Inside Higher Ed (IHE) in a report about how campuses and faculty across the country are handling classes on Election Day. At least 86 colleges and universities have canceled classes to facilitate voting, according to Day on Democracy, an organization that helps students advocate for their institutions to give them Election Day off, IHE reports. Today, a group of professors at Bard are opening their classrooms for discussions about the importance of democracy, and are joining attendees for a walk to the campus polling site to support those who are voting. “Many faculty members see a fundamental link between higher education and democracy, that it’s a fundamental pillar of liberal education in the United States,” said Jonathan Becker, executive vice president of Bard College and director of the Center for Civic Engagement. “What more important act for an educator is [there than] to speak about the most fundamental democratic rights, which is the right to vote?”

Post Date: 11-05-2024