Schedule Check here for this year’s schedule. Getting Here For directions and area information, please refer to the Bard College Visitors page, here. The nearest train station is in Rhinecliff. Visit Amtrak for reservations and timetables. On Sunday, July 14th, BPI will provide a shuttle service scheduled to… Read More
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Nicolette Natale
Press Release: RHODES COLLEGE JOINS THE CONSORTIUM FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS IN PRISON
FOR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE As it deepens its commitment to creating access to higher education for incarcerated people, Rhodes College announced today that it is joining the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison, an association begun by the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) in 2009. BPI… Read More
Press Release: BARD PRISON INITIATIVE RECEIVES $4.5M IN CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED FUNDING
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Funding will expand college-in-prisons in 7 prisons, as well as reentry and alumni programs across New York. ANNANDALE-ON-HUSON, NY — Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) today announced that the organization is receiving $4.5 million in congressionally direct funding to help deepen Bard’s college-in-prison work across… Read More
Announcing BPI’s 2024 Global Research Fellow: Josefina Salomon
We are proud to announce Josefina Salomón as the next BPI Global Research Fellow for 2024. Josefina is an Argentine-British journalist, editor and researcher. Over the last two decades, she has lived and traveled extensively across Latin America documenting human rights, organized crime, and security… Read More
Alumni Opinion: The Importance of TAP Restoration
The restoration of access to New York’s need-based Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) for college-in-prison is monumental. Receiving an education behind bars permanently changed my life in many ways. A year into receiving my associate degree through the Bard Prison Initiative, there was no doubt… Read More