Our Partners
CCE partners with local and regional organizations to address shared concerns, provide opportunities for student engagement, encourage dialogue about critical issues, and participate in transformative action.
Engaging Student Leaders and Local Changemakers.
The Center for Civic Engagement strives to inspire students to take action, develop a sense of agency, and creatively apply the liberal arts and sciences in public life. Civic action at Bard includes student-led initiatives, volunteer opportunities, electoral politics, participation in social movements, public education, work with government and NGOs, and participation in institutional campus-community partnerships.COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
In collaboration with the Bard’s Council for Inclusive Excellence and the Office of the Vice President for Strategy and Policy, the Center for Civic Engagement facilitates a “Community Relations” working group This group explores and advances off-campus initiatives to support the diverse Bard community, particularly through engaging with local officials and community groups in Dutchess and Ulster County.
One of our “Community Relations” initiatives is to promote local public board meetings. Please see below for upcoming meeting dates and email [email protected] if you are a Bard community member interested in joining the working group or if you have suggestions for other local public board meetings to add to the list.
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Red Hook Public Meetings
Outreach Themes
Student-Led Initiatives
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Students in the TLS program propose, design, and implement civic engagement projects based on their own passionate interests. -
Election@Bard works to increase voter turnout by registering voters, developing elections-based programming to foster civic engagement, and fighting for voting rights. -
Community Action Awards fund student participation in internships that address issues impacting people around the world.
Math
The Bard Math Circle offers math enrichment for elementary, middle, and high school students in the mid–Hudson Valley.
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STEAM Explorers bring math and science to the children and teens, creating experiences and experiments that inspire wonder, spark curiosity, and challenge old ideas. -
Bard students bring their passion for the arts off campus, working with children in area schools on theater, dance, music, and visual arts projects. -
Bard student-athletes are involved in a number of service projects, such as hosting summer camps, fundraising for the Hudson Valley Special Olympics, and leading the campus holiday food drive.
Community Outreach
Brothers at Bard mentors working with high school students in Kingston, New York.
Brothers at Bard
Brothers at Bard (BAB) provides comprehensive mentorship and community-building services in spaces where access to male role models of color is limited. BAB works on multiple fronts: as a club on the Bard campus supporting undergraduate students, as an academic enrichment mentoring program for high school students, as a professional network serving Bard College alumni of color, and as advisers to programs for young men of color on other college campuses.
The Bard Debate Union
The Bard Debate Union is a community of students, faculty, and staff committed to promoting the values of civic discourse, dialogue, and debate throughout the Bard College community, the greater Hudson Valley region of New York, and the world at large.
Local and Regional Initiatives
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La Voz is an award-winning free Spanish language magazine serving approximately 140,000 Latinos living in the Hudson Valley. Founded in 2004 as a Bard student TLS project, La Voz is the voice of Hispanic culture and news in the Hudson Valley. -
The West Point–Bard Initiative, established in 2006, serves as a model of cooperation and collaboration between a U.S. liberal arts college and a service academy. The Initiative provides opportunities for students and faculty from Bard and the United States Military Academy to exchange ideas in the classroom, through public presentations, debates, and extracurricular activities. -
At a time of great uncertainty for undocumented students and refugees, the Bard Sanctuary Fund is designed to ensure that Bard College and the Bard network of campuses provide support for affected students.
