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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?’”

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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>>
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  • Bard Students in Human Rights Course Produce Videos for People in Prison Seeking Clemency
  • Dispatches from ELAS: OSUN Visual Storytelling Workshop
  • 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
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Upcoming Events
  • 1/27
    Wednesday

    Certificate in Civic Engagement Info Session

  • 2/01
    Monday

    Иосиф Бродский и Анна Ахматова: В глухонемой вселенной / Joseph Brodsky and Anna Akhmatova: Amidst a Deaf-Mute Universe
  • 2/11
    Thursday

    Bard-Smolny Trivia
  • 2/12
    Friday

    Bard-Smolny Peer Language Cafe
  • 2/16
    Tuesday

    Tough Talks: Against Nonviolence with Vicky Osterweil
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021
  • 6:30–7:30 pm Building a Career in Sustainability: Hear From Workplace Inclusion Experts
  • 8–9 pm
    Certificate in Civic Engagement Info Session
  • Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
  • Citizen Science Program
  • Meshell Ndegeocello
    Chapter & Verse: 
    The Gospel of James Baldwin
  • Call for Proposals: The Third Annual Difference and Justice Symposium
Thursday, January 28, 2021
  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
  • Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
  • Citizen Science Program
  • Meshell Ndegeocello
    Chapter & Verse: 
    The Gospel of James Baldwin
  • Call for Proposals: The Third Annual Difference and Justice Symposium
Friday, January 29, 2021
  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
  • Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
  • Citizen Science Program
  • Last day of Citizen Science
  • Meshell Ndegeocello
    Chapter & Verse: 
    The Gospel of James Baldwin
  • Call for Proposals: The Third Annual Difference and Justice Symposium
Saturday, January 30, 2021
  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
  • Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
  • Meshell Ndegeocello
    Chapter & Verse: 
    The Gospel of James Baldwin
  • Call for Proposals: The Third Annual Difference and Justice Symposium
Sunday, January 31, 2021
  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere
  • Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
  • Meshell Ndegeocello
    Chapter & Verse: 
    The Gospel of James Baldwin
  • Call for Proposals: The Third Annual Difference and Justice Symposium
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Civically Engaged Universities and the Pandemic: Student Stories of Hope

On Monday, August 10, the Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network continued COV-AID, an initiative to support universities engaged in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, through their webinar series: Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope. This series continues with the webinar "Civically Engaged Universities and the Pandemic: Student Stories of Hope."
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