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Response to COVID-19

Civic Engagement: Now More Than Ever
The CCE is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in myriad ways. Use this page to find everything from useful links and information to virtual volunteering opportunities and ways to stay connected to the Bard community and beyond. Check back frequently because we're always updating with new information.

Read A Liberal Arts College Responds to COVID-19
written by CCE Director and Executive Vice President Jonathan Becker.

Page at a Glance
Local Response  National Response  International Response

Local Response

Opportunities To Engage

Opportunities To Engage

Virtual Volunteers
It’s more important than ever to find creative ways to continue engaging with each other and our local communities. We are seeking students whose talents lend themselves to online programming for kids and teens.  Students can run a weekly live event focused on a particular topic or record activities (think STEAM, writing workshops, games).
Fill out the virtual volunteer opportunity form

Community Collaborations
Our community partners continue to address the needs of the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. From organizing volunteers for meal delivery to senior citizen outreach, virtual tutoring to online music, Bard and CCE are proud to be part of the community response. If you or someone you know in the Red Hook community is in need, please visit the Town of Red Hook Resource List  and consider volunteering for the new Red Hook Responds initiative.
Visit Red Hook Responds
 

Bardians Taking Action

Bardians Taking Action

STEM Fellows
STEM fellows at the CCE have moved their community outreach online with Kitchen Science. Their creative how-to videos are helping families experiment with STEM at home.
Watch STEM enrichment activities

Student Response Team
Developed to address concerns about COVID 19 on campus, the Student Response Team at Bard has been facilitating meal and package delivery and pharmacy pick-up for anyone on campus who is in need.

Wellness at Bard
The Bard Wellness Club is providing food resources to those still on campus via the Food Support Closet.
Visit Wellness at Bard
 

Virtual Tutoring for Local Students

Virtual Tutoring for Local Students

Helping Community Kids During School Closures

Need assistance during the transition to remote learning? Bard College's Center for Civic Engagement offers free virtual volunteer tutoring for local students. These are not certified educators but are trained volunteers that are available and ready to assist students and families during the pandemic and the transition to online learning. Need additional information? Contact [email protected]

Request a Tutor in Any Subject

The CCE Civic Series: Civic Literacy

The CCE Civic Series: Civic Literacy

Stay Informed and Engaged

Want to keep abreast of the COVID-19 response, track legislation, contact your representative or attend a virtual town hall meeting?

Use These Links

Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences

Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences

Pivoting to Continue Engaged Learning

When coursework connects with the community, Bard faculty and students in ELAS courses shift their work to document the moment and provide virtual support. Learn about the multitude of ways that ELAS faculty and students are rising to continue learning and to meet the needs of communities through virtual engagement and collaborative online projects. 
 

Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences

Anthropology of the Institution: Making Change through Social Service and Community Organizing, taught by Gregory Morton, is shifting in-person engagement to virtual engagement with local community partners including: online music, trivia, and games with residents of Ferncliff Nursing Home; staffing the hotline for Family of Woodstock and the Ulster Immigrant Defense Network; creating online activities for Lifetime Learning Institute members; creating online learning modules for elementary students in Kingston; and assisting with census counts and virtual community organizing.
 
Waste Cluster, taught across multiple disciplines by Ellen Driscoll, Eli Dueker and Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, is organizing students in their current home communities to create a class Air Haiku, that demonstrates what air does and how it moves within different communities. The words created during the class will be developed into an animated short and shown at a later time.
 
Students in the course Mathematics: Puzzles & Games, taught by Silvia Sacoon, are creating virtual math games to teach local K-12 students the art of the Rubik’s Cube and Set, while exploring how games can strengthen at home learning practices.  
 
Students in the course Urban Oceanography, taught by Eli Dueker, are collaborating on research projects with students at the NY Harbor School to learn about the concrete interplay between environmental racism and water quality in New York City and other major metropolitan areas.
 
Local Community Currencies, taught by Leanne Ussher, is examining the rise in alternative currencies by grass roots organizations to confront market‐based capitalism, including: Gift and Time Banking - a social reciprocity network for community seniors and Bard students; Ponchhockie Food security using the Hudson Valley Current to collect unwanted/donated fruits and vegetables from grocers and farms and deliver via an exchange system of ‘currents'; O Positive Festival ‘credits’ to optimize the  exchange oof music for health services throughout the year; employment of musicians through a database that exchanges music for an increase in customers; and the creation of Value Ledger, a stable coin that originates from the local government, to facilitate local government countercyclical fiscal policy.
 
Students in the class Doing Ethnography, taught by Gregory Morton, have launched a website, The Anthropology Of Human Interaction, Media, Consumption and Institutional Responses to Covid-19.The website is recording this historical moment through videos, pictures and stories.

Local Partners During COVID-19

*Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences (ELAS) Partners

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    Ascienzo Foundation*
    Abigail Lundquist Nursery School
    Ascienzo Foundation
    Bard Early Colleges
    City of Kingston*
    Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County
    Family of Woodstock*
    Ferncliff Nursing Home*
    Hudson Valley Current*
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    Hudson Valley Farm Hub*
    Kingston City School District*
    Lifetime Learning Institute*
    Nobody Leaves MidHudson*
    NY Harbor School*
    OPositive*
    People's Place*
    Radio Kingston*
    Red Hook Central School District
    Red Hook Chamber of Commerce
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    Red Hook Community Center
    Red Hook Eats
    Red Hook Library
    Red Hook Methodist Church Pantry
    Red Hook Responds Hotline*
    Town of Red Hook*
    Ulster Immigrant Defense*
    Village of Red Hook*
    Village of Tivoli
    YMCA of Kingston and Ulster*
Climate Solutions and JusticeA Virtual Teach-In

Climate Solutions and Justice
A Virtual Teach-In

#MakeClimateAClass

The Virtual Teach-in on Climate Solutions and Justice: On April 7, university and high school students across the nation, along with faith and community groups, tuned into 55 simultaneous, university-hosted state-wide webinars on an issue critical to their future: how ambitious state and local action can put us on the way to solving climate change by 2030. Coordinated by the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, faculty across the country, and across disciplines, assigned these webinars as homework, using them as a springboard for discussing climate solutions and energy justice. Watch the Instagram video

Learn More

Citizen Science COVID-19 Resources

Citizen Science COVID-19 Resources

Check Out These Links

Citizen Science

Smartphones Fight COVID-19

Penguins Search Galaxy Zoo

SciStarter

CitizenScience.gov

Scientific American

Earth Challenge 2020

Local Contacts

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    Governor Andrew Cuomo
    Senator Chuck Schumer
    Senator Kristine Gillibrand
    Congressman Antonio Delgado
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    Assemblyman Kevin Cahill
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    Covid-19 Map in Dutchess
    Red Hook Town
    Red Hook Village
    Tivoli Village
    Red Hook Responds (Volunteer Hotline)

National Response

Brothers At Bard

Brothers At Bard

To continue connecting students and engage alumni during COVID-19, Brothers At Bard (BAB) is moving to virtual platforms with the launch of the Brothers Beyond Bard (B3) program. B3 gets things started this month with a virtual book club. While social-distancing has begun to widen the opportunity gaps faced by young men of color, BAB is rising above obstacles to bridge the distance between young people and the opportunities they need and desire to succeed.

Learn More About Brothers At Bard

Tutoring Across the Bard Network 

Tutoring Across the Bard Network
 

As public schools move to remote learning, Brothers At Bard mentors and Bard Learning Commons tutors are training virtual volunteers at Bard College in Annandale to provide support to Bard Early College students as they transition from in-person to remote learning.
 

Learn More About the Learning Commons

International Response

Adapting the Network

Adapting the Network

Preparing Faculty and Students for Online Learning

Faculty at the Open Society University Network (OSUN) are building a library of resources to help their colleagues and students transition to remote learning. From technology tips to pedagogical strategies, instructional videos to sample assignments, this collection of trainings and webinars continues to grow. The goal is not just to develop a robust educational system during social distancing, but to foster and develop meaningful relationships between faculty and students even in these extraordinary times.

Browse OSUN Resources

Learn about how they define resilience and watch this impressive poster slide show of their civic and community engagement projects (imbed poster slide show here with description). 

Virtual Get Engaged Conference 2020

Resilience in Crisis:
CCE and the Open Society University Network 

More than 50 students and staff across the international network showed us all what resilience means by holding a virtual conference after the 7th Annual Get Engaged Conference was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference included students from Ashesi University, American University of Bulgaria, American University of Central Asia, Al-Quds Bard, Bard Annandale, Bard Berlin, Central European University, European Humanities University, Fulbright University of Vietnam, and Smolny College.

Learn more

3D Printing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): A Global Call to Action

3D Printing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): A Global Call to Action

Designers, architects and makers around the world are collaborating to produce much needed PPE equipment. Anyone with basic knowledge of design modeling, a 3D printer, and the appropriate materials can produce face shields to protect front line medical staff during these unprecedented times. With the support of OSUN, Bard is testing the prototype and sharing findings across the OSUN network to engage institutions in supporting their own communities by producing and donating much needed PPE shields for local medical facilities at the front lines of the epidemic.

Engaging Across Global Networks

Engaging Across Global Networks

The Open Society University Network, in partnership with the Talloires Network, announces the launch of COV-AID: Communities of Virtual Alliance & Inter-Dependence, to support universities engaged in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. COV-AID seeks to collect and share stories of institutions and individuals who are taking action to mitigate the crisis, document practical steps and strategies that may be of use elsewhere, provide uplifting content, and strengthen public support for engaged universities.

Learn About the COV-AID Student Engagement Award

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