Introduction
Try to imagine your garden measuring 930 acres. Try to imagine it containing hundreds of varieties of flowers, bushes, grasses, and other flora. Try to imagine how much work it takes to design, manage, nurture, and maintain it for people to enjoy. You don’t have to imagine it. It’s right here.
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Introduction
How did a debate team made up of people doing time at a New York State prison in the Catskills defeat both Harvard and Cambridge – two of the most respected debate teams ever? They were students in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). Their skills were honed in a college degree program that may be one of Bard’s most innovative efforts.
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Article by Jonathan Becker
This is an in-depth article, written by Jonathan Becker, about the nature of Bard’s civic engagement work.
Here is the abstract:
Despite its moderate size and rural location, Bard’s civic engagement efforts resonate locally, nationally, and internationally, and have significant public policy impacts.
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Free for LLI members
Google apps are a set of applications that LLI members get to use for free when they log into Google with their lli.bard.edu accounts. This is all part of being a G Suite for Education school.
Some of these apps may be familiar to you because you use Microsoft applications (which you must pay to use):
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Parliament of Reality
You will find The Parliament of Reality in the large meadow in front of the Fisher Center. It is perhaps the most well-known piece in the Bard College collection of outdoor sculpture. Created by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson in 2009, this large installation was inspired by the original Icelandic parliament,
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What did you Think of Your Courses?
What did you think of your courses this semester? Did the content and presentation meet your expectations? Would you recommend the course to others? Might you have changed part of it? The Curriculum Committee really wants to know. You rely on the committee to produce the quality courses you enjoy each semester.
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Enjoy your retirement
When LLI AV team members need help with computer displays that don’t turn on, sound systems that won’t un-mute, or any equipment that just will not cooperate, the place we look to is a small office on the first floor of the Olin building. That’s the home of the Bard AV staff.
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New Member Survey results
The Membership Development Committee is getting some great feedback from new LLI members. Three-quarters of new members filled out the new member survey, offering their reactions and ideas. (Take note, LLI members, it’s time to evaluate your spring classes!) Here are some of the results.
How are new members feeling about their experience at LLI?
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From Monday, May 6 until Friday, May 10, the Venerable Tenzin Yignyen, a Tibetan monk from the Dalai Lama’s personal monastery and professor of Tibetan Buddhist studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will construct a sand mandala of the Buddha of Compassion in the lobby of the Reem-Kayden Center on the Bard College campus.
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Collaboration at LLI
LLI is a collaborative organization, with participating members working behind the scenes to coordinate LLI events, policies, programs, etc. Before we had Google Suite for Education (G Suite), there was so much emailing of files back and forth among participating members to do committee work. There could be many versions of a single document,
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