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Living on Campus
This information is relevant for the 2024-2025 academic year. Information about the 2025-2026 academic year at the new campus in Barrytown, NY will be made available in late spring 2025.
A learning and living environment unlike any other. Anywhere.
Make yourself at home.
What’s it like to live on the Simon’s Rock campus? There are people who (like you) are in love with ideas and politics and culture and science, and who (like you) are bold and determined enough to have chosen to come here — and yet who are as unlike you as it is possible to be, who teach you simply by thinking and living the way they do, who support and inspire and challenge and thrill you.
Talk to a student about campus life at Simon’s Rock.
The specific idea includes a lively campus with comfortable residence halls and food
that is fresh and tasty. The residence halls are pleasantly appointed, and our residence
staff go out of their way to ensure a cozy and collegial vibe — these buildings are
going to be your home, after all. As for the food, our dining hall staff is legendarily
friendly and there is a varied and healthy menu of freshly prepared dishes, including
daily vegan options (and just the right amount of junk food).
But when you feel like hanging out, you’ll choose from a packed schedule of lectures and performances (many at the Fisher Center for the Arts, just up the road on the main Bard College campus); a range of programs designed to explore and promote diversity; a long list of student-run clubs and organizations; a constantly updated schedule of conferences, panels, and guest artists and scholars; a Community Service Program with extensive ties to local and regional agencies and institutions; and athletic opportunities on the Massena Campus and Bard College’s main campus. Not to mention a beautiful campus and easy access to New York’s Hudson Valley.
It’s all part of our campus-wide commitment to living in smarter, saner, healthier ways.