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July 2025 News for Bard Families & Friends |
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The Bard Farm sells produce grown by Bard students every Thursday in the summer from 12-5pm on campus. |
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Dear Families,
Welcome families of first-years and new transfer students! You have been subscribed to Bard’s monthly eNewsletter for Bard families: the Annandale Insider. The Insider provides you—and all Bard families—with news and important information from the College.
Thank you to all who generously donated to Bard before June 30, the end of the College’s fiscal year. We deeply appreciate the outpouring of support from Bard families and friends. To learn more about fundraising, visit our Giving page, FAQs, and Ways to Give.
There is so much happening on campus this summer, including SummerScape and the 35th annual Bard Music Festival. If you find yourself near Annandale this summer, please consider joining us for a performance or late night dancing in the Spiegeltent. The full schedule and ticket information are on the Fisher Center website.
Also on campus are the current exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art at the Center for Curatorial Studies: Stan Douglas: Ghostlight and All Manner of Experiments, Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group.
Most importantly, we are eagerly awaiting the arrival of new students! Bard will welcome first year and transfer students to campus for their respective Language and Thinking programs in August. We look forward to seeing you when you arrive on campus!
Please save the date for Family and Alumni/ae Weekend: October 24-26, 2025. Families are welcome to join us on campus to experience all that Bard has to offer through concerts, tours, tastings, classes taught by our stellar faculty, and more. If you think you may be able to join us, I encourage you to book your accommodations as soon as possible.
Registration and more information will be available in the early fall.
Also, for our families near Baltimore, The Bard Early College Network invites you to a special screening of the Emmy-nominated documentary The Body Politic at the SNF Parkway Theater. Following the film, join us for a Q&A with Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and Associate Producer Jahsol Drummond ’18. This powerful film explores community, leadership, and change—please register here.
Best Wishes,
Mackie Siebens '12
Assistant Director of Development, Family Programs
[email protected]
845-758-7316
P.S. Be sure to follow Bard Family Network on Instagram for College updates, news and events!
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Dates to Remember
To view the full 2025–2026 academic calendar, click here.
Friday, August 8, 2025 | Arrival Day, Check-in, and Financial Clearance for First-Year Students
Monday, August 11, 2025 – Wednesday, August 27, 2025 | Language and Thinking Program
Friday, August 22, 2025 | Arrival Day, Check-in, and Financial Clearance for Transfer Students
Monday, August 25, 2025 – Wednesday, August 27, 2025 | Transfer Student Language and Thinking Program
Thursday, August 28, 2025 – Friday, August 29, 2025 | Matriculation Days - Advising and Class Registration for First-Year and Transfer Students
Saturday, August 30, 2025 | Arrival Day for All Returning Students Check-in, and Financial Clearance for Returning Students
Monday, September 1, 2025 | First Day of Fall Classes
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | Drop/Add Period Ends 5 pm
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 | Late Drop Period Ends
Monday, October 13, 2025 – Tuesday, October 14, 2025 | Fall Break |
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Family Leadership Council
Members of the Family Leadership Council (FLC) play a leadership role in the Bard community through a range of activities. FLC members develop and participate in on-campus and regional recruiting and mentoring events, promote and provide career opportunities for students, and participate in peer-to-peer fundraising. Parents on the FLC play a role in the success of the Bard College Fund through annual gifts. The Family Leadership Council meets twice each year: once during Family Weekend in the fall and once in the spring. These meetings are open so all Bard families are welcome to attend.
Interested in joining or have questions? Contact Mackie Siebens '12, Assistant Director of Development for Family Programs, at [email protected] or 845-758-7316. |
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“Every Wonder in One Spot,” from the project Cosmologyscape by Kite and Alicia B Wormsley. Courtesy the artists and Creative Time
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Wiháŋble S’a Center at Bard College Receives Wagner Foundation Grant
The Wiháŋble S’a Center for Indigenous AI at Bard College has been announced as the recipient of a $93,000 grant from the Wagner Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Boston. The grant will support the project “Cosmologyscape,” a multi-platform, socially engaged public art initiative co-lead by Wiháŋble S’a Center Director Dr. Suzanne Kite, distinguished artist in residence and assistant professor of American and Indigenous Studies at Bard, and artist and producer Alisha B. Wormsley MFA ’19.
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Michael Martell, associate professor of economics.
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Michael Martell Included in United Nations #NoToHate Campaign
The United Nations highlighted research by Michael Martell, associate professor of economics at Bard College, in its #NoToHate campaign designed to combat hateful speech. Martell’s study, “Economic Costs of Hate Crimes,” written for the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, estimates that the measurable annual cost of hate crimes in the United States is nearly 3.4 billion, with the actual cost likely much higher.
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Director of the Bard MBA in Sustainability Eban Goodstein.
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Eban Goodstein Wins 2025 United Nations PRME Leadership in Education Award
Director of the Bard MBA in Sustainability Eban Goodstein was honored at the United Nations headquarters in New York City as the winner of the PRME (Principles of Responsible Management Education) Educational Leaders Award for 2025. Goodstein was recognized for founding and continuing to lead Bard’s innovative MBA in Sustainability, one of the few graduate programs worldwide that fully integrates a focus on sustainability and mission-driven leadership into a core business curriculum.
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Henry Mielarczyk ’25.
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Henry Mielarczyk ’25 Joins Stennis Program for Congressional Interns
Bard alumnus Henry Mielarczyk ’25, a philosophy and music performance major, has been accepted into the 2025 Stennis Program for Congressional Interns. The internship, given by the Stennis Center for Public Service in Washington, DC, is a competitive program that aims to provide its interns with an opportunity to better understand the role of Congress as an institution and its role in the democracy of the United States.
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Ronan Farrow ’04.
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Ronan Farrow ’04 Interviewed by MSNBC About DOGE and Social Security Data
Ronan Farrow ’04, contributing writer to the New Yorker and Bard College alumnus, spoke with Jen Psaki of MSNBC about how the US Supreme Court granted DOGE access to private Social Security data and the implications of such a move. “Elon Musk and his stake and role in DOGE connects directly to Elon Musk’s stake and role in Grok, through his company xAI,” Farrow told MSNBC. “There is evidence that he is feeding a lot of this sensitive data into his own AI products, using them to train his own AI products.”
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Hannah Arendt.
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Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny Premieres June 27 on PBS
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny, a new feature documentary about the life and work of the German-American political philosopher and writer will premiere nationwide on June 27 at 9 pm ET on PBS. The film features interviews with Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard Roger Berkowitz and Bard College President Leon Botstein.
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June Supporters
Thank you to Bard families and friends who supported Bard in June. We are grateful for your generosity to the College!
#donorsmakedegreespossible
Anonymous (6) • Peter Kosewski '77 and John D. Anderson • Nicholas J. Nehez '96 and Alexandra Auder '94 • Diane Becker • Chris A. Belardi and Joyce A. Capuano • Melissa Benson • Stephanie G. Beroes • Joshua D. Bloom '95 and Molly M. Northrup Bloom '94 • Sharon E. Garbe '83 and David Blumel • Kevin Kautenburger and Reinhild Boehme • Jane A. Brien '89 and Stewart Verrilli • Nathaniel J. Brown and Patreese A. Martin • Ada C. Chamberlain • Joseph T. Chang and Vicky M. Chang • Alexandre Chemla and Lori Chemla • Helene Tieger '85 and Paul Ciancanelli • Peter Coopersmith and Heather Hart • Thomas J. Costanzo and Daphne I. Rubin-Vega • Randall M. Crafton and Amy P. Crafton • Cheryl S Cummer • Lisa Daugaard • Mark E. Davidson and Lynn W. Davidson • Riccardo De Los Rios and Laurie Shearing • Jane Deering • Sara F. Egan • Gregory Fields and Rozanna Leo-Fields • Edward A. Friedman • Sarah A. Furstenberg • Patti Galluzzi • John Garcia and Cecilie Stuart Garcia • Peter W. Greenwald and Gail M. Newman • Krassimir Grouev • Kimberly L. Haas • Liam Harte and Emily B. Todd • Don Hurowitz '65 and Elizabeth Hurowitz • Lesley L. Hyatt • Judith Joa • Bill K. Johannes '70 • Dan Junkins and Minette Junkins • Kevin Kautenburger and Reinhild Boehme • Jane Kim • Frank Komola •
Charles Phillips and Maureen Langloss • Jim Etkin and Kim Larsen • Richard J. Leung • Ilya Levinson and Martine Benmann • Walter Levitch • Alan J. Lipsky and Anna J. Rhodes • Fei Liu • Robert W. Lourie • Linda J. McIntosh • David Meikle • Carlin Meyer • Robert Mielarczyk and Janice Mielarczyk • Kenneth Miller and Julie Ries • Jay O. Mills and Jennifer Mills • Steve Morgan • John E. Smedley and Carole A. Parker • Stewart Resnick and Lynda Resnick • Jason T. Robison and Anne S. Robison • David W. Jacobowitz '65 and Linda Rodd • Harry Sunshine '76 and Susan Schwimmer • Alix Shafer • Ian Chorao and Sylvia Sichel • Richard W. Waugaman • Rand Whipple and Anne Dowd • Leland H. Woodbury and Judith Tolkow
To give to Bard today, visit giving.bard.edu/bcf!
If you gave to the College in June but do not see your name listed above, please note that due to the large influx of gifts at the end of Bard's fiscal year (June 30) we are still recording the many donations that came in last month. Your name will be included in the August issue of the Insider! |
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