Bard College seeks to inspire curiosity, a love of learning, idealism, and a commitment to the link between higher education and civic participation. Visit bard.edu to learn more.https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mvlcrlixdo24Congratulations to Bard alumnus Spencer Vazquez ’22, a photographer and filmmaker who has been awarded a 2027 artist’s residency from the Visual Studies Workshop. “Vazquez's work explores the intersection of memory, digital media, and the everyday image,” writes Broadway World. https://www.bard.edu/news/spencer-vazquez-22-awarded-a-residency-from-visual-studies-workshop-2026-09-0815 Sep 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvlcrlixdo24https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mviscqdg7424The Human Rights Project at Bard College has awarded Anthony Lester Fellowships, which support legal and human rights work, to Charlotte Manson and Darlington Marange. The awards of $25,000 each will support Manson’s legal advocacy and Marange’s fieldwork. https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-announces-third-annual-anthony-lester-fellowships-2026-09-0314 Sep 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mviscqdg7424https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mv6js5rb262rBard College has added an additional cohort to its Posse Foundation site in Puerto Rico, which was established in 2022. The Posse Foundation recruits students who demonstrate extraordinary leadership potential, providing full-tuition scholarships from partner colleges and universities. https://www.bard.edu/oei/posse/10 Sep 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6js5rb262rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mv6jpmnfuf24A sculpture by Visiting Artist Tschabalala Self ’12 was unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square on September 10. Lady in Blue will stand prominently on the Square’s fourth plinth for two years. Self described her sculpture to the Guardian as “a beacon that could shed light into a possible future." https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/sep/01/tschabalala-self-fourth-plinth-racist-vandals-trafalgar10 Sep 2026 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6jpmnfuf24https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3muwoennq4v24 Bard professor Felicia Keesing co-authored a 35-year study into Lyme disease published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study found that mice may be more relevant as hosts of Lyme-carrying ticks than deer, challenging scientific understanding of tick-borne disease. https://www.bard.edu/news/professor-felicia-keesing-contributes-to-35-year-study-lyme-disease-2026-08-2407 Sep 2026 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwoennq4v24https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mumztzuqf723The Galloping Cure, an opera by Composer in Residence Missy Mazzoli, was featured on the BBC’s Radio 4: Front Row. A collaboration between Mazzoli and Bard Fiction Prize winning author Karen Russell, the Edinburgh International Festival described it as “visually stunning and emotionally gripping." https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zhsh03 Sep 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumztzuqf723https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mukmpfoaj727Bard College was ranked in the top five in the “Professors Get High Marks” category of the Princeton Review’s rankings of colleges and universities 2026. The ranking is based on how strongly students agree with the statement, "Professors are interesting and bring their material to life." https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-rated-among-top-five-colleges-where-professors-get-high-marks-in-princeton-review-college-rankings-2026-08-2602 Sep 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukmpfoaj727https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3muhs3tisxr2zMeet the Acting President of Bard College Jonathan Becker, who shared his thoughts on his almost 30 years with Bard and why he's excited to lead the College now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EMSsZ-weMs01 Sep 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhs3tisxr2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mu5myngrfq2kBard College’s Division of Languages and Literature announces the appointment of Tara Westover as visiting writer in residence beginning in the fall 2026 semester. Westover is an American historian whose memoir Educated was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. https://www.bard.edu/news/tara-westover-visiting-writer-in-residence-division-languages-literature-2026-08-1428 Aug 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5myngrfq2khttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3muf32vsw5w2lAta Ullah, a political science student in the Bard Global Degree program and Rohingya youth advocate, wrote an article documenting the grassroots journalism taking shape inside Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the world’s largest refugee settlement where he lives. https://akademie.dw.com/en/voices-between-silence-how-refugee-youth-rebuild-dialogue-through-digital-storytelling/a-7729613831 Aug 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3muf32vsw5w2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mu5myngrfq2kBard College’s Division of Languages and Literature announces the appointment of Tara Westover as visiting writer in residence beginning in the fall 2026 semester. Westover is an American historian whose memoir Educated was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. https://www.bard.edu/news/tara-westover-visiting-writer-in-residence-division-languages-literature-2026-08-1428 Aug 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5myngrfq2khttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mth2dytqs526Jonathan Becker, acting president of Bard College, has published a New York Times Opinion piece on student voting rights. “American colleges and universities must not be neutral on the issues of democracy and civic participation,” Becker writes. 📸: Joseph Nartey '26. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/opinion/college-students-voting-civic.html19 Aug 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mth2dytqs526https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mssyhlbp552xAll four of the residence buildings of Bard College’s North Campus Residence Complex have achieved the Passive House Certification from the Passive House Institute, whose certification is recognized worldwide as one of the most demanding and respected standards in building science. https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-college-residences-honored-with-passive-house-certification-for-energy-efficiency-2026-08-0511 Aug 2026 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mssyhlbp552xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3msxsnpij5d2eCongratulations to ten Bard student-athletes named Intercollegiate Tennis Association awardees for the academic year 2025-26. The students were acknowledged for individual excellence, and the mens’ and womens’ teams were also recognized for maintaining a 3.2 grade point average. https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-mens-and-womens-tennis-teams-recognized-as-ita-all-academic-teams-for-2025-26-2026-08-0513 Aug 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxsnpij5d2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3msitasinj62xHudson Valley Community Air Network, led by Bard College’s Community Sciences Lab at the Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities, was featured in Chronogram magazine in an article about ongoing efforts to track and trace pollution in the air of the Hudson Valley region. https://www.chronogram.com/river-newsroom/trn_health/whats-polluting-the-hudson-valleys-air/07 Aug 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3msitasinj62xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mssyhlbp552xAll four of the residence buildings of Bard College’s North Campus Residence Complex have achieved the Passive House Certification from the Passive House Institute, whose certification is recognized worldwide as one of the most demanding and respected standards in building science. https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-college-residences-honored-with-passive-house-certification-for-energy-efficiency-2026-08-0511 Aug 2026 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mssyhlbp552xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3msqonukg222xActing President of Bard Jonathan Becker delivered the commencement address at Kyiv School of Economics’s graduation ceremony. “It was incredibly meaningful to me to come back to Ukraine at this challenging time and meet bright, motivated students who want to shape their country’s future,” he said. https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-college-acting-president-jonathan-becker-delivered-2026-commencement-address-at-kyiv-school-of-economics-2026-08-0410 Aug 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqonukg222xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3msitasinj62xHudson Valley Community Air Network, led by Bard College’s Community Sciences Lab at the Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities, was featured in Chronogram magazine in an article about ongoing efforts to track and trace pollution in the air of the Hudson Valley region. https://www.chronogram.com/river-newsroom/trn_health/whats-polluting-the-hudson-valleys-air/07 Aug 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3msitasinj62xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3msdoytyq6j24In an essay for the Dublin Review of Books, Acting President Jonathan Becker described how he learned his uncle Joseph Ronsley, then a graduate student at Northwestern University, brought a lawsuit against Illinois officials who were trying to ban the novel Tropic of Cancer. https://drb.ie/blog/an-unlikely-political-animal/05 Aug 2026 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdoytyq6j24https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mrpoglq2id27Bard College launched Language and Thinking Kyiv, a tuition-free three-week program for Ukrainian high school students and an extension of Bard’s signature program involving deep engagement with texts and an exploration of the iterative process between writing and thought. https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-college-tuition-free-language-thinking-program-kyiv-nova-ukraine-2026-07-2328 Jul 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrpoglq2id27https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3ms73dx7rth23Three summer exhibits at Hessel Museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College were profiled in Forbes. The exhibits by Betty Parsons, Marilou Schultz, and Uman opened last month and showcase artists “pushing the possibilities of abstraction and color,” writes Chadd Scott. https://www.bard.edu/news/three-exhibitions-at-ccs-hessel-museum-profiled-in-forbes-2026-07-2803 Aug 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms73dx7rth23https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mruzkdfyfg2dJulianne Swartz MFA ’03, associate professor and codirector of the studio arts program at Bard College, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Bobby Anspach Foundation to support her large-scale project Heart Flow Instrument. https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-scholar-julianne-swartz-awarded-grant-from-bobby-anspach-studios-foundation-2026-07-1730 Jul 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruzkdfyfg2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mrpoglq2id27Bard College launched Language and Thinking Kyiv, a tuition-free three-week program for Ukrainian high school students and an extension of Bard’s signature program involving deep engagement with texts and an exploration of the iterative process between writing and thought. https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-college-tuition-free-language-thinking-program-kyiv-nova-ukraine-2026-07-2328 Jul 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrpoglq2id27https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mrn2ps4rtw26Bard’s MBA in Sustainability has been named the #1 Green MBA by The Princeton Review for the sixth consecutive year, and has also earned the #1 MBA for Nonprofits ranking by the Review for the third consecutive year. Additionally, CEO awarded Bard a AAA rating in its Green MBA Index. https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-college-mba-in-sustainability-receives-multiple-top-rankings-2026-07-2227 Jul 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrn2ps4rtw26https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mrdgbhsnc72rJulia Weist, visiting artist in residence in studio arts at Bard College, was featured in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times in articles about her performance work Questioning. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/theater/questioning-play-new-theater-hollywood.html23 Jul 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdgbhsnc72rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mrb4i3d5ey27Jonathan Becker, acting president of Bard College, published an opinion piece in Times Higher Education about how institutions of higher learning should remain focused on civic missions. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/even-trump-era-abandoning-us-hes-civic-mission-not-option22 Jul 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrb4i3d5ey27https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mrb4i3d5ey27Jonathan Becker, acting president of Bard College, published an opinion piece in Times Higher Education about how institutions of higher learning should remain focused on civic missions. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/even-trump-era-abandoning-us-hes-civic-mission-not-option22 Jul 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrb4i3d5ey27https://bsky.app/profile/bardcollege.bsky.social/post/3mrazcmhsqu2hProfessor Roosevelt Montás was interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education about why he believes general education is the future of college. “Students are hungry [for] serious intellectual engagement,” he says. https://www.chronicle.com/article/have-colleges-gotten-general-education-all-wrong22 Jul 2026 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:hd5o64pse25rnnlxibdlr24r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrazcmhsqu2h