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Welcome to the Bard Family Network!
Our online network is designed to connect current Bard parents, grandparents, and guardians. Annandale Insider, a monthly e-newsletter containing the latest campus news, notifications of family events, and volunteer/mentorship opportunities, keeps our families informed about student life in Annandale.

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Family Leadership Council

Family Leadership Council

Members of the Family Leadership Council (FLC) play a leadership role in the Bard community through a range of activities. FLC members develop and participate in on-campus and regional recruiting and mentoring events, promote and provide career opportunities for students, and participate in peer-to-peer fundraising. Parents on the FLC play a role in the success of the Bard College Fund through annual gifts. The Family Leadership Council meets twice each year: once during Family Weekend in the fall and once in the spring. These meetings are open so all Bard families are welcome to attend.   
Visiting Us

Visiting Us

Bard College campus grounds in Annandale are open to the community. Visitors who are vaccinated and boosted are welcome in campus facilities (except residence halls and the gym, which remain off limits to visitors) with advance approval from the Response Team.
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Donna Ford Grover, visiting associate professor of literature and American studies. Photo by Chris Kayden

Faculty in the News

Bard’s extraordinary faculty are dedicated to the philosophy of teaching. Today and throughout Bard’s history, members of the faculty have effected change in medicine, the arts and letters, international affairs, journalism, scientific research, and education, among other endeavors.
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The Bard Academic Calendar is an important resource for use throughout the year.
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The Family Programs Office sends out a monthly e-newsletter, Annandale Insider, as well as important messages from the College and news on networking events, student and faculty achievements, and more. 
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News and Events

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New Book by Howard Megdal ’07 Reviewed in the Washington Post

“Megdal has been reporting on the WNBA for more than a decade, and his book reflects that.”

New Book by Howard Megdal ’07 Reviewed in the Washington Post

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Bard alumnus Howard Megdal ’07. 
A new book by Bard alumnus Howard Megdal ’07, about professional basketball player Caitlin Clark, has been reviewed in the Washington Post. In June, Megdal—a longtime follower of women’s basketball and the WNBA—published his book, Becoming Caitlin Clark: The Unknown Origin Story of a Modern Basketball Superstar, which spans 100 years and traces the arc between the revered women who played the wildly popular game of six-on-six basketball in the 1920s and Clark in the 2020s, examining her fame and style of play in the context of her predecessors, while telling the story of the basketball-loving community that rallied behind her in college and beyond. “Megdal sees a transformative figure who arrived after the work of generations of women was starting to bear fruit,” writes Ben Strauss for the Post. “Megdal has been reporting on the WNBA for more than a decade, and his book reflects that.”
Read More in the Washington Post

Post Date: 07-16-2025
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Sonita Alizadeh ’23 Releases New Memoir

Born under Taliban rule, Alizadeh faced the threat of child marriage at the ages of 10 and 16, before finding her voice through music.

Sonita Alizadeh ’23 Releases New Memoir

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Sonita Alizadeh ’23, Bard College alumna and human rights activist. 
Sonita Alizadeh ’23, Bard College alumna and human rights activist, has released a memoir chronicling how she avoided child marriage twice, escaped Afghanistan to pursue her dreams, and evolved into a woman who is changing the world. Born under Taliban rule, Alizadeh faced the threat of child marriage at the ages of 10 and 16, before finding her voice through music. She has since performed on global stages and collaborated with artists and organisations that share her mission, and has addressed world leaders and worked with NGOs such as the UN, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International to push for change. In Sonita: My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom, she shares incredible highlights of her life, like winning the songwriting contest that gave her the opportunity of a lifetime, as well as harrowing chapters, like when the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, and how some of her family escaped while others were left behind.
Read More in the Adobo Magazine Profile of Sonita Alizadeh ’23

Post Date: 07-15-2025
Vladimir Nahitchevansky ’15 Profiled by <em>Albany Times-Union</em>

Vladimir Nahitchevansky ’15 Profiled by Albany Times-Union

His printings focus on adding human touches with "a deep sense of thinking behind each component."

Vladimir Nahitchevansky ’15 Profiled by Albany Times-Union

Vladimir Nahitchevansky ’15 Profiled by <em>Albany Times-Union</em>
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Bard alumnus Vladimir Nahitchevansky ’15 was featured in the Albany Times-Union which covered his small press, 1080 Press, based in Kingston. Working closely with individual artists, Nahitchevansky has printed works by Richard Hell, Fred Moten, and Bernadette Mayer as well as several Bard alumni/ae. His printings focus on adding human touches, which he describes as “an object rife with error and chance and happy coincidences and mistakes. When you open them, you feel like there was a deep sense of thinking behind each component.”

Nahitchevansky established 1080 Press in 2022 after many years of making printed matter on his own. When he graduated from Bard’s Written Arts program, he worked at small presses throughout New York. He eventually started the print house from his apartment and began mailing out physical, printed newsletters to patrons. ​​He sees this process as what small presses are truly about: “You use the space that you have, you start out printing your friends, then you expand out of that space.”
Read the Profile in the Times Union

Post Date: 07-02-2025
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