Nine Simon’s Rock Faculty Members Win OSUN Achievements
Nine members of the Bard College at Simon’s Rock faculty were recently awarded competitive accolades from the Open Society University Network (OSUN).
Five Simon’s Rock faculty were selected as winners in the OSUN 2020 Contest for Innovative Assignment Design for the Connected Learning Environment. Their assignments will become available as resources in OSUN’s Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy (CLASP). The winners include:
- Jennifer Browdy ’78, faculty in comparative literature and head of the Division of Languages and Literature
- Brian Connolly, faculty in philosophy
- Harold Hastings, faculty in science, mathematics, and computing
- Erin McMullin, faculty in biology
- John Myers, faculty in music, electronic arts, and cultural studies
Additionally, six Simon’s Rock faculty members were honored as Bard Early College OSUN Fellows. This spring, they will join a group of OSUN-member faculty to design curricula for younger college students at Al-Quds Bard University in Palestine and the American University of Central Asia, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The winners include:
- Jennifer Browdy ’78, faculty in comparative literature and head of the Division of Languages and Literature
- Harold Hastings, faculty in science, mathematics, and computing
- Brendan Mathews, faculty in creative writing and literature
- John Morrell, faculty in literature
- Colette van Kerckvoorde, faculty in German and French
- Tai Young-Taft, faculty in economics and research scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
OSUN, co-founded by Bard College and Central European University, is a new global network of more than 30 educational institutions that integrates learning and the advancement of knowledge in the social sciences, the humanities, the sciences, and the arts, on undergraduate and graduate levels. Through OSUN, member institutions collaborate across geographic and demographic boundaries, promote civic engagement on behalf of open societies, and expand access to higher education for underserved communities.