CCE News

Bard College students Telo Hoy and Meagan Kenney have been awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships to study abroad for the fall 2017 semester. Hoy, a music composition major from Santa Fe, New Mexico, was awarded $3,000 to study at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavik. Kenney, a mathematics major from Richmond, Virginia, was awarded $4,500 to pursue studies in Hungary at the Budapest Semester in Mathematics. Hoy and Kenney are among nearly 1,000 American undergraduates from 386 colleges and universities across the United States selected to receive the prestigious award.

The Bard Globalization and International Affairs program (BGIA) held a graduation ceremony for the summer 2017 cohort on July 28, 2017. Twenty-three students spent an active and successful summer in New York City interning, taking classes, and participating in BGIA cultural activities. Classes offered this summer included Global Cities—New York at the Center of the World, Counterterrorism, and Gender in International Relations.

Last week, North Korea performed a successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, but Jonathan Cristol '00 proposes the real cause for concern is the reaction of President Donald Trump.