Bard College Celebrates MLK Day with Volunteer Activities and Civic Engagement Workshops
Bard College students, staff, and faculty celebrated the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with a weeklong series of campus events and virtual activities with community partners, culminating with the 11th annual MLK Day of Engagement. The events took place as part of the nationwide Day of Service that marks the King holiday. Volunteers around the country respond to Dr. King's call, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’”
Their Stories Helped Lift a 26-Year Ban on Pell Grants for People in Prison
The Bard Prison Initiative and its students and alumni/ae have helped change the national landscape for incarcerated students. In December, Congress restored Pell Grant access for people in prison. The decision came after nearly three decades of advocacy by students, families, prison reform groups, and educational institutions, including BPI. The stories of BPI students and graduates, recently amplified by the PBS documentary College Behind Bars, have helped sway public opinion and national policy. Read More>>Dispatches from ELAS: Riley Cerabona '23 Urges Stronger ADA Compliance in Red Hook
In Student as Citizen taught by Jonathan Becker and Erin Cannan, students researched and engaged with local, state, and national politics by combining active assignments with experiential learning. They were then tasked to coordinate these skills and create a project proposal that addresses an issue with actionable solutions. One of these students, Riley Cerabona ‘23 would go on to present her work to the Red Hook Town Board. Read More>>More CCE News
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- Dispatches from ELAS: Environmental Justice: Art, Science, and Radical Cartography
- Dispatches from ELAS: Ancient Peoples before the Bard Lands: Archaeological Methods and Theory
- Dariel Vasquez ’17 Finds His Own Place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dispatches from ELAS: Science and Identity
Upcoming Events
- 1/27WednesdayCertificate in Civic Engagement Info Session
- 2/01Monday
Иосиф Бродский и Анна Ахматова: В глухонемой вселенной / Joseph Brodsky and Anna Akhmatova: Amidst a Deaf-Mute Universe - 2/11Thursday
Bard-Smolny Trivia - 2/12Friday
Bard-Smolny Peer Language Cafe - 2/16Tuesday
Tough Talks: Against Nonviolence with Vicky Osterweil