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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, notification of family events, and volunteer/mentorship opportunities, keeps our families informed about student life in Annandale.
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 prominent role in the success of the Bard College Fund through annual gifts of $1,500 or greater. The Family Leadership Council meets two times each year: once during Family Weekend and once in the spring.

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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Faculty in the News
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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Academic Calendar

Academic Calendar

The Bard Academic Calendar is an important resource for use throughout the year.
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Stay in Touch

Stay in Touch

Keep your records up to date. If you have updates or changes to your contact information, please email [email protected]. 

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

Annual Events

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Upcoming Events

  • 4/30
    Sunday
    Sunday, April 30, 2023

    Miúcha: The Voice of Bossa Nova

    Campus Center, Weis Cinema 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Bard alumnus Mostafiz ShahMohammed ’97 directed the film Miúcha: The Voice of Bossa Nova. Miúcha tells the story of the renowned Brazilian singer through her personal letters, audio diaries, home movies, and expressive watercolor drawings animated for the film. After the screening there will be a reception with delicious Brazilian foods and drinks from 5:45–6:30 pm.

    4:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Campus Center, Weis Cinema
  • 5/27
    Saturday
    Saturday, May 27, 2023

    Commencement

    Bard College Campus 
    Bard College Campus
  • 10/27
    Friday

    Apple picking at Greig Farm during Family and Alumni/ae Weekend. Photo by Karl Rabe
    Friday, October 27, 2023 – Sunday, October 29, 2023

    Family and Alumni/ae Weekend

    #bardfallwknd
    We look forward to welcoming parents, family members, and alumni/ae to campus for Family and Alumni/ae Weekend from Friday, October 27 – Sunday, October 29, 2023. The schedule will be packed full of activities, showcasing just about every program on Bard’s 1,000-acre campus.

    Online registration for Family and Alumni/ae Weekend will open in the fall. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. 

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  • 5/25
    Saturday
    Saturday, May 25, 2024

    Commencement

    Bard College Campus 
    Bard College Campus

Hua Hsu’s Stay True: A Memoir Wins 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography

The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) has announced the recipients of its book awards for 2022. Bard Professor of Literature Hua Hsu’s Stay True: A Memoir won the award for autobiography. NBCC Committee Chair Heather Scott Partington called Hsu’s account of a college-age friendship a “clear-eyed and vulnerable exploration of platonic friendship and lifelong loss” that “demonstrates how earnest teens seek to define themselves in dichotomies, and how it’s our routines that create our identities.”

Hua Hsu’s Stay True: A Memoir Wins 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography

The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) has announced the recipients of its book awards for 2022. Bard Professor of Literature Hua Hsu’s Stay True: A Memoir won the award for autobiography. NBCC Committee Chair Heather Scott Partington called Hsu’s account of a college-age friendship a “clear-eyed and vulnerable exploration of platonic friendship and lifelong loss” that “demonstrates how earnest teens seek to define themselves in dichotomies, and how it’s our routines that create our identities.” One of the most prestigious of literary honors in the United States, the NBCC awards are selected annually by a committee of book critics and review editors. The awards recognize works published the prior year and are open to books published in English in the United States.
Read the NBCC announcement
Read more in the New York Times

Post Date: 03-29-2023

Valentina A. Grasso Joins Bard College as Assistant Professor of Medieval History in the Division of Social Studies

Bard College’s Division of Social Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Valentina A. Grasso as Assistant Professor of Medieval History. Her tenure-track appointment will begin in the fall of the 2023–24 academic year. Grasso is currently an assistant professor of Semitics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She was previously visiting assistant professor at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, an affiliate member of the European Research Council (ERC) project “The Qur'an as a Source for Late Antiquity,” and of the Cambridge Silk Road Program, which focuses on the study of the history and culture of the Silk Road countries.

Valentina A. Grasso Joins Bard College as Assistant Professor of Medieval History in the Division of Social Studies

Bard College’s Division of Social Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Valentina A. Grasso as Assistant Professor of Medieval History. Her tenure-track appointment will begin in the fall of the 2023–24 academic year.

Grasso is currently an assistant professor of Semitics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She was previously visiting assistant professor at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, an affiliate member of the European Research Council (ERC) project “The Qur'an as a Source for Late Antiquity,” and of the Cambridge Silk Road Program, which focuses on the study of the history and culture of the Silk Road countries. She is part of the committee of the London Society for Medieval Studies and a chair of the Society of Biblical Literature and International Qur'anic Studies Association (SBL/IQSA) “Qur'an and Late Antiquity” Program Unit. 

Grasso holds a Ph.D. (Divinity, 2021) from the University of Cambridge, where she completed her doctoral dissertation which came out as a monograph, Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults, and Identities during Late Antiquity, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. She is currently working on her second monograph while co-editing a volume on Indic imagery (Brepols 2024) and a special issue on Arabian epigraphy and Early Islam. 

Post Date: 03-28-2023

Climate Despair to Climate Repair: Global Teach-in on Climate Change, Led by Bard College, to Be Held March 29, 2023

Through a global initiative led by Bard College, more than 250 colleges, universities, and high schools worldwide will engage students and teachers in 40 countries to move from “Climate Despair to Climate Repair.” Now in its fourth year, the Global Teach-in is meant to help participants move from despair to determination, working together to change the future. On Wednesday, March 29, Bard will host its own teach-in from 5–8 pm in the Bertelsmann Campus Center. A free, low-carbon dinner will be provided alongside “People and Planet Working on Climate Repair,” a panel discussion led by Professors Felicia Keesing and Eban Goodstein. The evening will culminate in discussion groups focused on climate solutions.

Climate Despair to Climate Repair: Global Teach-in on Climate Change, Led by Bard College, to Be Held March 29, 2023

Through a global initiative led by Bard College, more than 250 colleges, universities, and high schools worldwide will engage students and teachers in 40 countries to move from “Climate Despair to Climate Repair.” Now in its fourth year, the Global Teach-in is meant to help participants move from despair to determination, working together to change the future. 

On Wednesday, March 29, Bard will host its own teach-in from 5–8 pm in the Bertelsmann Campus Center. A free, low-carbon dinner will be provided alongside “People and Planet Working on Climate Repair,” a panel discussion led by Professors Felicia Keesing and Eban Goodstein. The evening will culminate in discussion groups focused on climate solutions. In addition to the teach-in, 40 Bard courses will integrate climate discussion into their classes this week, and on March 30, a Climate Game Night will be held in Kline Commons.

The Worldwide Teach-in is a project of the Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College in partnership with educators across the world. The project has received support from the Open Society University Network, Lever for Change, an affiliate of the MacArthur Foundation, and the United States Embassy in Kyrgyzstan.
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Post Date: 03-28-2023
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