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Tonery Rogers ’19 has won David L. Boren Scholarship for $20,000 to study Arabic in Jordan for the spring and summer of 2018. Rogers is the first Bard student to win a Boren Scholarship, a federal initiative that encourages the study of language skills in countries critical to the future security and stability of our nation.

Professor Ellen Condliffe Lagemann talks about the Bard Prison Initiative, public funding for higher education, and finding incredible students in unlikely places.

Daniel Mendelsohn writes about how his 81-year-old father wanted to study Homer’s epic, took his son's undergraduate course at Bard, and then the two sailed together for Ithaca.

Ian Buruma, Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, reflects on Trump's recent military action in Syria and the American media reaction to it.

Bard College and the United States Military Academy at West Point present a conference entitled "Equality—More or Less?" from Wednesday, April 12 through Friday, April 14. The conference takes place in Blithewood Manor on the Bard College campus and is presented by Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Bard College; Graham Parsons, assistant professor of English & philosophy at West Point; and Robert Tully, professor of philosophy at West Point. The programs are free and open to the public and no reservations are required.