Bard College
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For support for the expansion of Bard High School Early Colleges in New York City
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Today’s students require schools that prepare them to succeed in college, achieve economic mobility, and participate actively in our democracy but access to this kind of education remains inconsistent. Over the last two decades, Bard Early College (BEC) has developed a best-in-class early college high school model that bridges the gap between secondary and postsecondary education by providing students with a tuition-free college course of study as they pursue their high school diplomas. BEC currently operates nine schools across several states that serve over 3,300 students annually and have achieved notable success: 84 percent of graduates finish their bachelor’s degree within six years compared to the nationwide average of 62 percent. BEC’s first two schools have operated in New York City for over twenty years with particularly impactful results, including the highest on-time bachelor’s degree completion rate for low-income students among all public schools in the state. Corporation support will allow BEC to respond to the heightened demand for early college in New York City by creating two new schools, doubling the number of students it serves from 1,300 to 2,600.
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For Smolny Without Borders
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
35 months
Description
Russia’s first liberal arts college, Smolny College, was founded in 1994 by the St. Petersburg State University in collaboration with Bard College. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent restrictions within Russia’s civil society and educational space, former faculty members of Smolny College and of other Russian liberal arts programs founded a virtual education platform in 2022, called Smolny Beyond Borders. It offers courses for university credit, grounded in a broad liberal arts and sciences curriculum. Corporation’s grant will support its core activities, including research, teaching, and publication through fellowships, professional development, and online courses.
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For building the capacity and conditions needed to scale early college programs in New York City
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Preparing all students for success in college and career requires greater alignment between secondary and postsecondary learning experiences. Bard College (Bard) has developed a best-in-class early college high school model that bridges the gap between high school and college for primarily first generation and low-income students. Bard currently operates eight early college high schools across the country and leads policy engagement efforts focused on scaling policies, partnerships, and practices that improve access to high quality early college. With Corporation support, Bard codified its pedagogical resources and conducted policy and communications activities aimed at building demand for early college in underserved communities. Continued support will enable Bard to build on prior efforts to diffuse the early college model by advancing policy engagement and coalition work in New York City through city-level data collection and analysis, student policy engagement, and public engagement.
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For the diffusion of the Bard High School Early College model
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
Preparing all students for success in college and career requires greater alignment between secondary and postsecondary learning experiences. Bard College has developed a best-in-class early college high school model that bridges the gap between high school and college for primarily first generation and low-income students. Bard currently operates eight early college high schools across the country after twenty years of successfully serving students in New York City. With Corporation support, Bard codified its pedagogical resources and undertook critical policy work to promote broader application of the early college model around the country. Continued support will enable Bard to build on this work with a strategic communications campaign aimed at increasing awareness of and demand for early college in underserved communities.
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For the diffusion of the Bard High School Early College model
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Education program staff seek to create alignment between secondary and postsecondary learning experiences such that all students are prepared for success. Early college high schools are an important way we can help students bridge the gap between high school and college, and Bard College has developed an early college model that exemplifies the type of innovative, intellectually-rigorous learning experiences we seek to promote. With current Corporation support, Bard has codified practices and developed resources, as well as undertaken important policy work, so that its proven approach can be utilized in other school environments beyond Bard and the early college field. The proposed scope of work builds on the success of these efforts through: 1) Creating policy conditions, including alternative teacher certification pathways and recruitment strategies, for broader application of early college pedagogies and 2) Launching technical assistance partnerships with school networks and districts in order to diffuse Bard practices in other contexts.
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For a project to codify and share resources from the Bard Early College model and create more supportive conditions for other models rethinking the 9-college continuum
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Bard College has developed an effective early college model which is not only providing a rigorous educational experience to underserved students, but is also emerging salient lessons about the practices that drive the model’s efficacy. In its early college model, Bard hires and trains PhDs to teach college-level coursework to adolescents so students are able to complete high school and earn an Associate’s degree in four years. In the proposed grant, Bard will leverage its expertise to 1) adapt and codify its best practices for use in other school environments beyond the early college field, 2) improve the talent pipeline of early college-inspired high school educators, and 3) strengthen regulatory frameworks affecting models trying to rethink the grade 9-college continuum.
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Academic Leadership Award in recognition of Bard College President Leon Botstein's outstanding academic and institutional leadership
Date
Sep. 10, 2009
Duration
12 months
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As a final grant toward the Smolny Collegium, an international institute for advanced study in Russia
Date
Jun. 14, 2007
Duration
36 months
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Toward an evaluation design to measure the effectiveness of a Master of Arts in Teaching program
Date
Jun. 09, 2005
Duration
12 months
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Toward the Smolny Collegium, an international institute for advanced study in Russia
Date
Jun. 09, 2005
Duration
24 months