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20 Years of Bard Behind Bars

By Delia Mellis ’86, The Bardian

At a recent orientation session for newly enrolled Bard students at Taconic Correctional Facility, I found myself thinking about my own undergraduate experience and the ways Bard connects people across campuses and decades. We were there to talk about the extended world of the… Read More 

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An Insider’s Perspective

By Rodney Spivey-Jones ’17, The Bardian

  With fresh pens, sharpened pencils, and brand new composition notebooks, we took our seats in the classroom for the first day of Language and Thinking—not as inmates, but as classmates. The stress and tension that seem to burst through every crack and crevice of… Read More 

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