Admissions is now open for the Bard at Brooklyn Public Library Microcollege. Program Director Christopher Perez wrote this revised letter below encouraging interested future students to apply and explaining how the admissions process has been adjusted because of COVID-19. Check it out below and… Read More
Program: Microcollege
College Behind Bars Coming to Holyoke Microcollege
Friday, March 20, 2020 1:30-3:30 p.m. Holyoke Library Community Room 250 Chestnut Street, Holyoke Please join us for a screening of highlights from the documentary film COLLEGE BEHIND BARS, about students in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), one of the most rigorous prison education programs in America. The screening… Read More
Bard Microcollege Holyoke – Meet Candice
One of the first graduates of Bard Microcollege Holyoke, Candice Pelletier is now completing her Bachelor’s degree at Smith College on a full scholarship. Like many women who find The Care Center, Candice’s path to college took a few unusual turns. Despite Candice’s straight… Read More
Bard at BPL 2019-2020 Fellows
The Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library is pleased to announce our 2019-2020 fellows! The Bard at BPL fellowship program brings select artists, scholars and professionals who have demonstrated innovation and excellence in their fields to engage with Bard at BPL students over the course… Read More
Earning a degree inside Brooklyn’s Central Public Library
Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Bard College has opened a micro-college, offering associates degrees earned by attending classes at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand… Read More
How to Level the College Playing Field
This time of year, there’s a lot of optimism in the air about college. As acceptance notices come in, it seems like the smartest, hardest-working young people with the greatest potential are being matched to institutions of higher learning that will prepare them for… Read More
A College in the Library
The local public library is a treasured (if sometimes forgotten) American institution, free and open to all. Recognizing this, Bard College has opened a satellite college in the main branch of the public library in Brooklyn, N.Y., offering disadvantaged students a free pathway to… Read More
A College in the Brooklyn Public Library
From Inside Higher Ed. The local public library is a treasured (if sometimes forgotten) American institution, free and open to all. Recognizing this, Bard College has opened a satellite college in the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City, offering disadvantaged… Read More
Bard and Brooklyn Public Library Partner for Microcollege
Bard College, a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) have partnered to launch a “microcollege”—an innovative undergraduate program for nontraditional students—at BPL’s Central Library in Prospect Heights. Bard at Brooklyn Public Library is designed to give the experience… Read More
A Matter of Degree: Helping Young Moms Succeed
From day one, teachers encourage the young mothers in the Care Center’s dynamic high-school equivalency program to set their sights on higher education. And the message seems to take. Three quarters of students who earn their GED enroll in college. But when the Holyoke, Mass.,… Read More