L-R: Erin Cannan and Sadia Saba ’21.
Vice President for Civic Engagement Erin Cannan and Sadia Saba ’21, former Andrew Goodman Foundation ambassador at Bard College, discussed Bard’s polling location win on
Live the Legacy. Offering lessons from decades of on-campus organizing, including efforts dating back to 1998, Cannan said that Bard’s involvement in securing voting rights for students stemmed out of a sense of pedagogical duty. “From an institutional perspective, Bard considers itself a private college in the public interest,” she said. “Institutions themselves have to play an active role in protecting rights as a form of education for students to understand what that takes.” In 2021, the New York Appellate Division unanimously affirmed the decision of Dutchess County Supreme Court Judge Maria Rosa to situate a polling place on the Bard College campus for District 5 voters, creating a more equitable and accessible voting site for Bard students and the Bard College community. Read more about that decision
here.
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Post Date: 03-29-2022