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Bard College
Motto: Dabo tibi coronam vitae (I shall give thee the crown of life)
Established: 1860
Type: Private, liberal arts college
Endowment: US$180 million
President: Leon Botstein
Faculty: 224
Undergraduates: 1,801
Postgraduates: 261
Location: Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Campus: Rural, 600 acres
Nickname: Raptors
Website: www.bard.edu
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Location

Bard has a 600-acre (2. 4-km²) campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, near the town of Red Hook, overlooking the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, within the Hudson River Historic District, a National Historic Landmark. Annandale-on-Hudson is a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, USA, in the Hudson Valley in the Town of Red Hook, across Red Hook is a Town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami The Catskill Mountains (also known as simply the Catskills) a natural area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany The Hudson River Historic District, also known as Hudson River Heritage Historic District, is the largest such district on the mainland of the contiguous A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the The village of Annandale-on-Hudson has no downtown center and consists of the college and nine other non-associated houses. The village is neighbored by the villages of Red Hook and Tivoli, and is across the Hudson River from the small cities of Kingston and Saugerties. Red Hook is a Town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. Tivoli is a Village in Dutchess County New York, United States. The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami Kingston is a City in Ulster County, New York, United States. Saugerties is a Town in Ulster County, New York, USA. The population was 19868 at the 2000 census Shuttles run between the college and the two villages.

History

John Bard, founder of St. Stephen's College
John Bard, founder of St. Stephen's College

The college was originally founded under the name St. Stephen's, in association with the Episcopal church of New York City, and changed its name to Bard in 1934 in honor of its founder, John Bard. The Episcopal Church is the official name of the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States. The City of New York While the college remains affiliated with the church, it pursues a far more secular mission today. Between 1928 and 1944, Bard/St. Stephen's operated as an undergraduate school of Columbia University. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Bard/St. Stephen's ties with Columbia were severed when Bard became a fully coeducational college. [1]

By the 1930s Bard had become atypical among US colleges in that it had begun to place a heavy academic emphasis on the performing and fine arts. During that time, a substantive examination period was introduced for students in their second year, as well as what the dean at the time called the "final demonstration. " These two periods would come to be known as Moderation and Senior Project, respectively (see below). Bard College, founded in 1860 is a small selective four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. [2]

During the 1940s, Bard provided a haven for intellectual refugees fleeing Europe. These included Hannah Arendt, the political theorist, Stefan Hirsch, the precisionist painter; Felix Hirsch, the political editor of the Berliner Tageblatt; the violinist Emil Hauser; the noted psychologist Werner Wolff; and the philosopher Heinrich Blücher. The Berliner Tageblatt or BT or was a German language Newspaper published in Berlin from 1872-1939 Heinrich Blücher ( 29 January 1899 &ndash 30 October 1970) was a German Poet and Philosopher. [3]

In 1975, after serving as the youngest college president in history at Franconia College, Leon Botstein was elected president of Bard. Franconia College was a small experimental Liberal arts college in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Leon Botstein (born 1946 in Switzerland) is an American He is generally credited with reviving the academic and cultural prestige of the College, having overseen the acquisition of Simon's Rock College, the construction of a Frank Gehry-designed performing arts center, and the creation of a large number of other associated academic institutions. Bard College at Simon's Rock, more commonly known as Simon's Rock and previously as Simon's Rock College of Bard (see below) is a small residential selective Frank Owen Gehry CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize -winning Architect

Bard's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.
Bard's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

Admissions

For the class of 2011, 27. 1% of applicants were accepted, while the median SAT and ACT scores for matriculating students were 1330 (math plus verbal) and 30, respectively. Sixty-three percent of matriculating students ranked in the top 10% of their high school class. [4][5] The Princeton Review rated Bard a 95 out of 99 in its selectivity rating,[6] and US News & World Report categorized Bard as "most selective. "[7] The class of 2011 represent 38 states and 36 different countries. [8] Bard is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in the United States. [www. usnews. com/collegeranking]

Programs and associated institutes

Bard has developed several innovative graduate programs and research institutes, including the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, the Levy Economics Institute, the Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, the Bard College Conservatory of Music, the ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies in Manhattan, the Master of Arts in Teaching Program (MAT), the Bard College Clemente Program, and the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan. Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts is a graduate program associated with Bard College that grants Master of Fine Arts degrees The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College is located on the campus of Bard College in Annanadale-on-Hudson NY The' Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture' is an exhibition and research center dedicated to the study of art and exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present The Bard College Conservatory of Music is a program of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson New York. The ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, is one of eight graduate programs affiliated with Officially referred to as the Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities, the program is a community-based academics outreach to economically disadvantaged individuals with The Bard Graduate Center (aka BGC for Studies in the Decorative arts Design, and Culture was founded in 1993 by Susan Weber Soros (former wife of Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York The college's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts was designed by acclaimed architect Frank Gehry, and was completed in the spring of 2003. The Richard B Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is a performance hall located in New York 's Hudson Valley. Frank Owen Gehry CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize -winning Architect

The Bard Prison Initiative provides a liberal arts degree to incarcerated individuals in five different prisons in New York State, and currently enrolls nearly 200 students. The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI is a program sponsored by Bard College to provide a liberal arts degree to incarcerated individuals in five different Prisons in the [9] Since federal funding for prison education programs was eliminated in 1994,[10] the BPI is one of the only programs in the country of its kind. Prison education, also known as Correctional Education, involves vocational training or academic Education supplied to Prisoners as [11]

Bard College is also affiliated with Bard College at Simon's Rock, the nation's oldest and most prestigious early college entrance program, Bard High School Early College in New York City, as well as Bard Center for Environmental Policy. Bard College at Simon's Rock, more commonly known as Simon's Rock and previously as Simon's Rock College of Bard (see below) is a small residential selective Early college entrance programs are educational opportunities for groups of Gifted students that allow them to be accelerated into College one or more years Bard also helped construct a curriculum for Smolny College, Russia's first liberal arts college, with St. Smolny College (Смо́льный институ́т is a Liberal arts college located in St Petersburg State University. Additionally, the college hosts the Bard Globalization and International Affairs (BGIA) Program in New York City, which is focused on the specialized study of human rights law, international relations ethics, civil society, humanitarian action, and global political economy. Students attend seminar classes in the evenings and work at a substantive international affairs internship during the day. BGIA publishes BardPolitik, a semiannual international affairs journal featuring contributions from students and academics.

Bard publishes Conjunctions, a semi-annual literary quarterly. Conjunctions is a biannual American literary journal publishing innovative fiction poetry criticism drama art and interviews by both emerging and established

Recently, Bard College acquired, on permanent loan, art collector Marieluise Hessel's substantial collection of important contemporary artwork. Hessel also contributed eight million dollars for the construction of a new wing at Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies building, in which the collection is exhibited.

Student life

Over 60 student clubs are financed through Bard's Convocation Fund, which is distributed once a semester by an elected student body and ratified during a rowdy public forum in the dining commons.

Bard students publish two newspapers, the Bard Observer and the Bard Free Press. In 2003, the Free Press won Best Campus Publication in SPIN Magazine's first annual Campus Awards. [12] Literary magazines include the semiannual Verse Noire, the annual Bard Papers, and Sui Generis, a journal of translations and of original poetry in languages other than English. The Bard Journal of the Social Sciences, which publishes undergraduate work, is also produced by students on campus.

Other prominent student groups include the International Students Organization and other cultural organizations, the Bard Film Committee, the Bard Democrats, and college radio station WXBC. Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of Radio station that is run by the students of a college WXBC Bard College Radio (540 AM) is a student run Radio station, broadcasting out of Annandale-on-Hudson New York, and is Bard College 's

Bard is also home to the Root Cellar, a student-run vegan coffeehouse complete with a zine library, which once was touted as "the largest zine library on the East Coast. A zine (an abbreviation of the word Fanzine, or magazine ziːn "zeen" is most commonly a small circulation non-commercial Publication " The Root Cellar is also home to a radical literature lending library.

Bard's Old Gym in February 2004, several months before it was closed as a student space due to fire safety concerns. The building currently houses the offices for campus security and has recently been transformed into a student-run theater.
Bard's Old Gym in February 2004, several months before it was closed as a student space due to fire safety concerns. The building currently houses the offices for campus security and has recently been transformed into a student-run theater.

The Bard Athletics department offers varsity sports in basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis, volleyball, and squash (men), and joined the Skyline Conference, effective 2007-2008. One of the more popular sports on campus is rugby. In the spring of 2006, Bard Women's Rugby joined the men's side, Bard Rugby Football Club, as an official team. The men's basketball team gained some notoriety when they were beaten by Caltech in 2007; it was Caltech's first win against an NCAA Division III opponent since 1996, and stopped a streak of 207 consecutive losses. The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena [13] Bard player Michael Mandlin was named Division III Player of the Year by the multicampus publication The Outside World. [14]

Bard has a strong independent music scene considering its isolation and size, and the college's Old Gym was once a popular location for concerts and parties in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s. In 2004, the Old Gym was shut down and in spring 2006 transformed into a student-run theater. Many activities that once took place there now occur in the smaller SMOG building, an autonomous student space. Student-run theater is also popular: dozens of student directed and written productions are put on each semester and a 24 Hour Theater Festival is held at least once a year.

Currently, most on-campus parties are held in the dining commons or at Ward Manor, a 19th century Hudson mansion now used as a dormitory. Furthermore, a social scene for students can be found in the nearby town of Tivoli.

Academics

All first-year students must attend the Language and Thinking (L&T) program, an intensive, writing-centered introduction to the liberal arts, for the three weeks preceding their first semester. Orientation also takes place during this time.

As first-years, all students take the "First-Year Seminar", which begins in the fall, and spans thinkers from Confucius to Galileo. Confucius ( lit " Master Kung " September 28, 551 BC - 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 &ndash 8 January 1642 was a Tuscan ( Italian) Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer, and Philosopher The course ends in the spring, spanning William Blake to Karl Marx. William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 was an English poet, painter, and Printmaker. There are nearly thirty sections of the course each semester, taught by a wide variety of professors, including President Botstein and other members of the administration.

Another mandatory process of the university is "moderation. " Moderation typically takes place in the fourth or fifth semester, as a way of choosing a major. Conditions vary from department to department: all require the preparation of two short papers, one on the moderand's past work in the major subject and one on their plans for the future; most require the completion of a certain set or a certain number of courses; some have additional requirements, such as a concert or recital, the submission of a seminar paper, or the production of a film. To moderate, the student presents whatever work is required to a moderation board of three professors, and is subsequently interviewed, examined, and critiqued.

The "capstone" of the Bard undergraduate experience is the Senior Project. As with moderation, this project takes different forms in different departments. Most students in the divisions of Languages and Literature and of Social Sciences write a paper of around eighty pages, which is then, as with work for moderation, critiqued by a board of three professors. Arts students must organize a series of concerts, recitals, or shows, or produce substantial creative work; math and science students, as well as some social science students, undertake research projects.

The college also offers graduate degrees at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan, the Center for Curatorial Studies, the Conductor's Institute, the International Center of Photography (also in Manhattan), the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, and in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program. The International Center of Photography is a photography museum school and research center located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City ( United

Politics

Bard is widely regarded as one of the most left-leaning colleges in the country. In 2005, the Princeton Review ranked it as the second-most liberal college in the United States, declaring that Bard "puts the 'liberal' in 'liberal arts. The Princeton Review (TPR is an American educational preparation company '"[15] Although the student body holds for the most part liberal political views, few students are consistently involved in political activism.

In 2003, Bard Professor Joel Kovel drew criticism from controversial conservative columnist Ann Coulter for his book, Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America, in which he compared anti-communism to a psychiatric disorder. Joel Kovel (born 27 August 1936) is an American politician academic writer and eco-socialist. Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8 1961 is an American Political commentator, Syndicated columnist, and best-selling Author. Coulter accused Kovel of holding a "lunatic psychological theory" and counted Bard among the colleges and universities that "have become a Safe Streets program for traitors and lunatics. "[16]

Notable faculty

Former faculty

Notable alumni/ae

Notable dropouts/ transferees

Bard College in Media and Popular Culture

Notes

External links

References

  1. Princeton Review Website: Bard College (www. princetonreview. com)
  2. USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2007: Liberal Arts Colleges: Top Schools
  3. History of Bard at bard.edu
  4. History of Bard at bard.edu
  5. History of Bard at bard.edu
  6. Bard Prison Initiative Website
  7. Maximum Security Education
  8. Bard Prison Initiative Website
  9. A Brief History of the Bard Free Press
  10. Laws of Probability, Caltech Snaps Losing Streak, Morning Edition
  11. Princeton Review's Top 10 Most Politically Liberal Colleges, via MSN
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