Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support an expansion of college-in-prison programs for men and women, planning for a master’s degree program, and an endowed chair dedicated to the Bard Prison Initiative

Bard Prison Initiative (BPI)

to support planning for expansion of the Bard Prison Initiative

Bard Prison Initiative  (BPI)

Bard Music Festival

toward costs of inaugurating the Bard Music Festival

to support the Bard-Smolny Virtual Campus project

Bard-Smolny Virtual Campus Project

to support the Bard-Smolny Virtual Campus Program

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Bard-on-Mahicantuck

to support the incorporation of objects conservation into the curriculum of Bard Graduate Center

Conservation Curriculum Development

to support the opening of Smolny College, and the establishment of an international summer/winter term in human rights in Southern Africa

Foreign Study [Smolny College & IHRE]

to support the Center for Human Rights and the Arts and the work of founder/director, artist, and scholar Tania El Khoury

Tania El Khoury at Bard

to support a production of The Dream of Gerontius at the 2007 Bard Music Festival

The Dream of Gerontius

to support Live Arts Bard Choreographic Fellowships, a project of the Foundation's Choreographers on Campus initiative

Choreographers on Campus

to support studies addressing the most significant voting rights cases on college campuses, and the production of Open Educational Resources available for teachers of voting rights courses

The 26th Amendment: Student Voting Rights as a Prism into Disenfranchisement and Re-enfranchisement in America

to support a digital humanities curricular initiative

Experimental Humanities

for use to enable long-serving and highly successful presidents of four liberal arts colleges to strengthen programs which will have significant influence on the future directions of their colleges

Senior Presidential Leadership

to support an interdisciplinary program in human rights, sponsored by Southern African universities and United States liberal arts colleges

Foreign Study - IHRE

to support an interdisciplinary collaborative program in human rights, sponsored by seven Southern African universities and seven United States liberal arts colleges

toward costs of improving foreign language instruction and achieving greater cost-effectiveness

Educational Effectiveness

to support the cost-effective use of technology in teaching

to support programs designed to increase faculty involvement in residential campus life

Academic Community

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

Faculty/Curricular Renewal

to support the Cultures of Conservation initiative for object-based art history graduate education

toward costs of its Chamber Orchestra Series

Chamber Orchestra Series

to establish an endowment to support the academic core of the Conservatory's five year double degree program

Conservatory of Music

to support the cataloguing and preservation of the Hannah Arendt Collection

Hannah Arendt Collection

to support the reestablishment of the International Human Rights Exchange program in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand

to support the transition of an international, collaborative program on human rights

to support the conservatory of music and the integrated double-degree program in music and the liberal arts and sciences

to support a program for faculty development

Faculty Career Enhancement

to support the establishment of a small music conservatory and assess interest in a "double degree" program in music and another field

Environmental & Urban Studies Program

to support the integration of science, mathematics, and computing into the general educational core curriculum

Science, Mathematics & Computing Curriculum

to support the creation of a digital video archive based on the Slobodan Milosevic trial

Slobodan Milosevic Trial Archive

to support an evaluation of the effects of orchestra-related El Sistema-inspired music education programs in the United States

Evaluation of Orchestra-Related US El Sistema Programs

to support a master's-level curatorial studies program in music

Masters in Curatorial, Critical, and Performance Studies in Music

to support an associate in arts degree program for adults who have been excluded or discouraged from participating in higher education

Bard Microcollege at BPL

to continue support for an associate in arts degree program for adults who have been excluded or discouraged from participating in higher education

Bard Microcollege at BPL - Phase III

Bard Microcollege at BPL - Phase II

to support cross-institutional curricular collaboration with Babson College and the Olin College of Engineering

The Three College Collaboration

toward costs of collecting data for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" study

College and Beyond

in support of the initial cost of data collection for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" research project

to support a study of the factors that influence low-income college students’ decisions to leave school

College Dropout Decisions

to support the Pathways to College program

Pathways to College Program

toward costs of collecting data for the Foundation’s "College and Beyond" study

in support of its High School-College Cooperative Learning Program

High School-College Program

to support a planning symposium on the future of the liberal arts college library

Liberal Arts College Library

in support of projects in the Trinity College Library

Trinity College Library

to support a Minnesota higher education study of college costs, affordability, and choices

College Costs Study

to support the project "Paying For College: Access, Affordability and Choice in Minnesota Higher Education"

Paying for College

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 