All the latest Bard news and videos
Bard in the News Inside Higher Ed discussed Bard's global Liberal Arits programs in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Palestine in a recent article. (September 1, 2010)
Bard was named a "Best Kept Secret" in Unigo's 2010 College rankings. Voted on by students, this identifies Bard as one of the "Top 10 Schools That Fly Under the Academic Radar - But Shouldn't." (August 24, 2010)
Roger Berkowitz, director of Bard's Hannah Arendt Center, published the article "Why We Must Judge" in the Fall 2010 issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
Stephen Tremaine '08, director of Bard Early College in New Orleans, published a piece in Education Week, "The Promise of Early College. Click here to download the pdf. (August 10, 2010)
Bard's SummerScape production of "Der Ferne Klang" received a glowing review in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe. (August 2, 2010)
Bard alumnus, former faculty member, and current Board of Trustees member Peter Maguire '88 wrote about Cambodia for The New York Times. (July 28, 2010) The New York Times Arts and Leisure section featured an in-depth preview of Bard's production of Franz Schreker's opera "Der Ferne Klang" ("The Distant Sound"). (July 23, 2010)
La Voz, a Spanish-language magazine started by Mariel Fiori '05 when she was a student at Bard, has been nominated to the Dutchess County Executive's Arts Awards for a special citation. (July 15, 2010)
Read The New York Times' recent review of the "Phillippe Parreno" and "At Home/Not At Home: Works From the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg" shows at Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies. (July 1, 2010)
Luke Bolton '09, an International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies major and former Senior Class Committee member from Durango, CO, won a Fulbright grant to study Arabic and Human Rights in Cairo, Egypt. (June 29, 2010)
In response to the National Association of Scholars' report on summer reading for college freshman, President Botstein article for Minding the Campus. (June 10, 2010)
President Leon Botstein's charge to the Class of 2010 is available for download, as is a congratulatory letter from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. (May 22, 2010)
The New York Times' Bob Herbert visited and wrote an Op-Ed piece about the Bard High School Early Colleges. (May 17, 2010)
President Leon Botstein was elected to the American Philosophical Society. (April 24, 2010)
Bard was just ranked the #3 Hipster School by Huffington Post. (April 4, 2010)
Time magazine discussed the study (see below) written by Bard Center for Environmental Policy Director Eban S. Goodstein. (April 3, 2010)
Eban S. Goodstein coauthored a study that says melting arctic ice could cost trillions by 2050. (February 3, 2010)
Professor Jacob Neusner recently met with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. In 2007, Time magazine called Neusner "The Pope's Favorite Rabbi." This was their second meeting. For more, see "Pope Meets Author of 'A Rabbi Talks with Jesus.'" (January 21, 2010)
Professor Mark Danner recently published an op-ed piece in The New York Times, "To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature." Danner's latest book, Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War, was reviewed by Charles Simic in The New York Review of Books. (January 21, 2010)
Forward.com recently ran a story about the Bard Prison Initiative called, "Earning College Degrees Behind Bars." You can read the article and watch the corresponding video slide show. (December 30, 2009)
Chinua Achebe, Bard's Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature, has just published his first novel in nearly 20 years. It was reviewed in the New York Times. (December 16, 2009)
According to the online news and entertainment source The Daily Beast, Bard is among 15 colleges considered the "Decade's Hottest Schools." (December 13, 2009)
Gideon Eshel, the Bard Center Fellow in Environmental Studies responded to the EPA's announcement regarding the regulation of greenhouse gasses at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change held in Copenhagen. (December 8, 2009)
The Jewish Daily Forward's article titled, "A New College in Jerusalem Imports a Liberal Arts Education for Palestinians" discusses the Bard College/Al-Quds project. (September 30, 2009)
Bard College President Leon Botstein received the 2009 Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award. (September 23, 2009)
Bard Video/Audio Links
President Leon Botstein was featured on "Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson" to discuss the 2010 Bard Music Festival. (August 13, 2010)
President Leon Botstein discussed "The Distant Sound" as part of Bard's SummerScape program. (August 1, 2010)
Bard's Executive Vice President and President of the Levy Economics Institute, Dimitri Papadimitriou, appeared on the Fox Business Network's Stuart Varney Show (video 1, video 2). (July 27, 2010)
President Leon Botstein filmed a segment for BigThink.com where he speaks about his time at Bard, music as an instrument of peace, and the American education system. (June 21, 2010)
President Leon Botstein will appear on The Open Mind with Richard D. Heffner Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 12:00 noon in New York City on WNET-TV Channel Thirteen. It will be rebroadcast on Sunday, July 18 at 9:30 am and 8:30 pm as well as Monday, July 19 at 8:00 am, 2:00 pm, and 8:00 pm. (June 14, 2010)
Artist in Residence Bill T. Jones discusses his recent Tony win for the choreography of Fela! (June 13, 2010)
Watch Bard's 150th Commencement Ceremony, live! (May 22, 2010)
National Public Radio aired a story about Bard's collaboration with Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. You can listen to the broadcast or read the transcript. (April 4, 2010)
President Botstein participated in a panel discussion at UCLA's Hammer Museum titled "Wagner and Anti-Semitism." You can watch or listen to the entire conversation. (February 9, 2010)
President Botstein was interviewed for the program Soundcheck on the New York City NPR affiliate WNYC. To listen, click the "Listen" button here: "Another Look at Henry Cowell." While at WNYC for the taping of Soundcheck, President Botstein was asked to list his favorite composers that aren't widely known. Click here to watch the video of his top picks. (January 29, 2010)
WNYC-FM, New York City's NPR station, aired a piece on the Bard Conservatory Orchestra's recent performance, organized by the Bard Prison Initiative, inside the Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch, New York. (December 4, 2009)
Bard College President Leon Botstein was featured as a Thought Leader on the CNBC series The Business of Innovation: Rethinking Work. (October 19, 2009)
Bard students Mujahid Sarsur and Aaron Dean made a vidieo about their experience running a three-week summer camp for a group of teenage boys in Mujahid's Palestinian hometown. (September 30, 2009)
Bard alum Dave Gracer '88 was recently featured on the Discovery Channel's new eco-friendly channel Planet Green as an "Insect Cuisine Enthusiast." (September 30, 2009)
Bard College President Leon Botstein and Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al-Quds University, appeared on the Charlie Rose Show. (August 12, 2009)
Bard College President Leon Botstein was interviewed by ABC News for a segment called "Back to School Already? Year-Round Programs in Full Swing." (August 9, 2009)
Bard College President Leon Botstein was on NPR's Weekend Edition talking about how "Pushing Kids Too Hard Can Be Childish." (August 8, 2009)
President Barack Obama cited Bard High School Early College in his Centennial Speech to the NAACP (21:00 into the speech). (July 16, 2009) |