BA, Kalamazoo College
MA, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
A native of Burma, U Ba Win joined the Simon’s Rock community in 1979. He was dean of students at Simon’s Rock for five years before becoming provost in 1985 and dean of the college in 2004. Along with faculty member and Dean of Academic Affairs Patricia Sharpe, Ba Win was one of the founding staff members of Bard High School Early College (the first in Manhattan in 2001, and the second in Queens, 2008), a collaboration between New York City’s Department of Education and Bard College. More recently, Ba Win has been running Writing and Thinking Workshops with faculty from Yangon and Mandalay University. (1979–2017)