Delano Burrowes tried to go to college a few times over the course of his life.
“I had a long history of drug addiction and a complicated relationship to education,” he said recently.
Now, he’s a published writer pursuing a bachelor’s degree at Columbia University.
“I think so many more people than we know feel like they’re left out of traditional college experience,” he said.
In 2021, he got his associate’s degree at Bard Microcollege and now works there as a tutor. The program is an expansion of the Bard Prison Initiative which serves incarcerated students.
“A free miniature campus of Bard College, in the community, in a place where people can access it, who want to go to college, who want to do the kind of college that we do, which is liberal arts college, small, intense seminar style classes,” says Madeleine George, Director of Admissions.
