Communications | Announcements

Desmond Meade will give the commencement address for the 21st BPI Commencement

BPI is proud to announce Desmond Meade will give the commencement address for the 21st BPI Commencement at Eastern Correctional Facility on June 3rd, 2023, and will earn an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Bard College. 63 incarcerated Bard students have earned degrees this… Read More 

News | Alumni News

Bard MBA Student, BPI Alum wins Mid-Hudson Business Plan Competition, Three Other Bard Teams Compete

This first appeared in Lead The Change: A Resource for Aspiring Leaders in Sustainability   Stacy Burnett has a powerful idea to shake up the big-business of prison re-entry: hire formerly incarcerated people to mentor folks who are newly released.  Stacy, a current Bard MBA student,… Read More 

Communications | Alumni Affairs

Education Programs: Using Restorative Justice to Transform The Educational Space

The Bard Prison Initiative Education Fellowship is in full swing. This year we have four dedicated and creative cohorts. They are working at various junctures in the educational space, but their mission to foster more equity, more social and emotional awareness in the public… Read More 

Communications | Alumni News

Alumni Voices: Jose Pérez ’13

On the onset of the pandemic, BPI developed a newsletter that was sent to incarcerated students weekly to retain communication between students and the college. The newsletter contained news and updates from across BPI’s 7 in-prison campuses; the Bard Microcolleges in Holyoke, Brooklyn, and… Read More 

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