Bard College

Bard seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment civic participation.

Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place estate, Bard’s campus consists of nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; gradu

ate degrees in 11 programs; eight early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 160-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders.

05/29/2026

Congratulations to Artist-in-Residence Argyro Nicolaou, who received a Cyprus Cinema Office Development and Production Grant in support of her first feature film. The €425,000 grant was bestowed by the Cyprus Cinema Advisory Committee for projects that focus on the cultural reality or history of Cyprus.

Argyro Nicolaou, artist in residence and visiting faculty at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College, has received a Cyprus Cinema Office Development and Production Grant in support of her first feature film.

05/27/2026

Professor Emma Benser wrote about the importance of creating educational opportunities for incarcerated people. “Expanding [computer science] education in prison is a vote toward a future where people with lived experience of incarceration are represented among computing faculty and industry,” she writes.

Membership in ACM includes a subscription to Communications of the ACM (CACM), the computing industry's most trusted source for staying connected to the world of advanced computing.

05/26/2026

Bard College students Paola De La Cruz Valenzuela ’28, Lo Olivieri ’28, Amaya Fernandez Guerrero ’28, and Lila Jigme Waxman ’28 have been awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships.

Four Bard College students have been awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the US Department of State. Paola De La Cruz Valenzuela ’28, Lo Olivieri ’28, Amaya Fernandez Guerrero ’28, and Lila Jigme Waxman ’28 all received Gilman scholarships.

05/22/2026

James Bagwell, director of the music program at Bard College and director of performance studies in Bard’s Conservatory of Music, has been named the principal conductor of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, as well as principal conductor and director of choral music at the Berkshire Bach Society.

James Bagwell, director of the music program at Bard College and director of performance studies in the Bard College Conservatory of Music, has been announced as the principal conductor of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, as well as principal conductor and director of choral music at the Berkshire Bach...

05/20/2026

This August, the Bard Music Festival returns with an intensive two-week exploration of “Mozart and His World.” In eleven themed concerts, the festival’s 36th season examines the life and times of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, one of the most recognized and celebrated Classical composers.

This August, the Bard Music Festival returns with an intensive two-week exploration of “Mozart and His World.” In eleven themed concerts, the festival’s 36th season examines the life and times of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, the Classical composer with arguably the most celebrated and recognized na...

05/15/2026

The 2026 Venice Biennale will feature works by Bard community members including professor Walid Raad, featured in the main exhibition, In Minor Keys, as well as Tom Eccles, executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Hessel Museum of Art, and Ruba Katrib CCS ’07, who are cocurators of the show "Untitled (a gathering of remarkable people)."

The 2026 Venice Biennale, the renowned international cultural exhibition, will feature works by Bard faculty members and Center for Curatorial Studies alumnae. Walid Raad, professor of photography at Bard, is featured in the main exhibition, In Minor Keys, and will also participate in two mixed medi...

05/13/2026

Congratulations to M. Gessen, distinguished visiting writer at Bard College, and Bard alumna Juliana Spahr ’88, who have been awarded Pulitzer Prizes. Gessen was awarded a prize in Opinion Writing for their New York Times articles, and Spahr was awarded a prize in Poetry for her collection Ars Poeticas.

M. Gessen, distinguished visiting writer at Bard College, and Bard alumna Juliana Spahr ’88 have been awarded Pulitzer Prizes. The Pulitzer committee awarded Gessen a prize in Opinion Writing for their “illuminating collection of reported essays on rising authoritarian regimes that draw on histo...

05/06/2026

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships to Bard College faculty members Jacqueline Goss and Joseph Luzzi. A fellowship was also awarded to Kenneth Tam, who will teach in the moving image discipline this summer at Bard’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships to Bard College faculty members Jacqueline Goss, professor of film and electronic arts, and Joseph Luzzi, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature. Guggenheim fellowships were also awarded to James Hoff, Steve Rein...

05/05/2026

Bard College is pleased to announce it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $1.35 million from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative for “The Uses and Abuses of History.” Led by four Bard faculty members, the project responds to the rise of unreliable digital media heightened by the proliferation of AI-generated content.

Bard College is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $1.35 million from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative for the project, “The Uses and Abuses of History,” which responds to the rise of unreliable digital media, heightened by the prol...

05/04/2026

Two Bard student researchers were awarded top prizes at the American Physical Society New York State Section Meeting. Congratulations to Fiona Boutelle ’27, who won first prize for her work on deep-space galactic structures, and Fonsea Bagchi ’29, who earned third prize for his research on gravitational-wave detectors.

Two Bard College student researchers were awarded top prizes at the American Physical Society New York State Section Meeting, held at SUNY Albany on April 18. Fiona Boutelle ’27 took home the first prize for her work on deep-space galactic structures, and Fonsea Bagchi ’29 earned third prize for...

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