Bard College

, Annandale-on-hudson, NY 12504-5000 -  View Map

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• Founded in 1860, Bard is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences, offering the bachelor of arts degree with concentrations in more than 40 academic programs in four divisions: Arts, Languages and Literature, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social Studies.
• As a residential college, Bard provides an exquisite campus setting in which students pursue their academic interests and craft a rich social life. The fusion of two historic estates, Bard's park-like campus covers more than 500 acres of fields and forested land bordering the Hudson River.
• The liberal arts and progressive curricular traditions coexist in the Bard education, uniting the goals of both the generalist and the specialist in a program of study that has made Bard a place of innovation in higher education and a force for the rebirth of intellectual thought in public life.
• Bard offers the following graduate degrees: master of arts in curatorial studies; master of arts and doctor of philosophy in the history of the decorative arts, design, and culture; master of fine arts; master of fine arts in conducting; master of fine arts in photography; master of arts in teaching; and master of science in environmental policy. It also offers two dual degrees, a master of science and master of arts in conjunction with the Garden History and Landscape Studies Program of The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. Design, and Culture; and a master of science and doctor of laws in conjunction with Pace University Law School.
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In the News:

• Aston Magna summer festival opens tonight (Kingston Daily Freeman)
  posted on June 17, 2011 at 07:07:06 am
  Aston Magna, a concert series that has been described by The New York Times as “America’s preeminent summer early-music event,” presents its 2011 concert series at Bard College on in Annandale-on-Hudson Friday evenings begining tonight and continuing June 24, and July 1 and 8. The series, held in Olin Hall, is sponsored by The Bard Center. Each 8 p.m. performance is preceded by a lecture at 7 p.m.
• picks of the week -- June 16-22 (Albany Times Union)
  posted on June 16, 2011 at 04:17:58 am
  The players will be Daniel Stepner on baroque violin and John Gibbons on harpsichord. 8 p.m. Friday, Olin Auditorium, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. Comic Eddie Griffin was so confident he would break into the Los Angeles comedy circuit that he bought a one-way ticket to the City of Angels to pursue his dream. Griffin quickly began drawing comparisons to Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx at the ...
• Today's local news briefsFROM: Greene County, Bard College, SUNY New Paltz (Kingston Daily Freeman)
  posted on May 19, 2011 at 07:07:24 am
  Stream project  tour is Saturday
• Bard College Receives $60 Million Challenge Grant to Expand the Reach of Liberal Education (PRWeb)
  posted on May 18, 2011 at 06:45:29 pm
  Matching Grant to Bard’s Center for Civic Engagement Will Bolster Link Between Democracy and Education (PRWeb May 18, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/5/prweb8451556.htm
• Bard College receives $60 million challenge grant (Kingston Daily Freeman)
  posted on May 16, 2011 at 09:48:33 pm
  ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — Financier George Soros has made a $60 million challenge grant to Bard College aimed at the off-campus projects of the college’s Center for Civic Engagement.

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