“The skills I use daily are skills I honed at Simon’s Rock: critical thinking, problem solving, and creative collaboration.”
1986
The W.E.B. Du Bois Scholarship program begins.
“You get to know your teachers, and they treated you like a junior colleague …They made it feel like they were learning from you. It was magical.”
1989
Simon’s Rock Soccer team plays in NSCAA national championship tournament.
1996
Veronica Chambers '87 writes Mama's Girl.
“When I got to Simon's Rock, I found a community that took me seriously as a human being and that believed in me so that I could flourish.”
2001
Bard High School Early College launches, a joint project of Bard and the NYC Board of Education based on the Simon’s Rock model
2015
First Bard Academy class, establishing the 6-year arc
1966
Simon’s Rock welcomes its first class of 50 young women into a 4-year A.A. program
1979
Simon’s Rock partners with Bard College
Inklings
Jamie Hutchinson, appointed in 1976, taught the popular class: The Inklings.
1987
Doug Ahlers ’77 creates first commercial website
1988
Women’s Studies program founded.
Harems
Joan DelPlato, appointed in 1987, taught the popular class Harems: Imagined and Real.
Ace
In 1990, Ace the frog moves into the pond in the Alumni Library Atrium. Deuce moves in soon after.
1992
Kellogg was moved from upper campus to its current location.
“Central to education at Simon’s Rock is an ability to manage diverse ideas in creative tension”
1976
Baird Whitlock awards the first B.A. degrees