Bard College Joins the Future Universities Alliance
Bard will work with global peers to explore how high-impact innovations can be extended through adaptation and partnerships. Photo by Joseph Nartey ’26
“Our participation in the Future Universities Alliance reflects Bard’s commitment to integrate international education more fully into undergraduate studies and to make rigorous liberal arts education accessible to communities where it was previously underdeveloped, inaccessible, or absent,” said Jonathan Becker, Bard executive vice president and GHEA21 vice chancellor. “We look forward to exchanging ideas with our global peers on ways to broaden our impact.”
GHEA21 has reenvisioned international education as a full curriculum of regular undergraduate courses taught by faculty around the world to students across five continents. More than 2,700 students across 21 partner institutions enroll in 150+ courses annually. About half of the enrollments consist of displaced students. GHEA21 enables Bard students, regardless of their circumstance, to pursue international education throughout their four years of undergraduate study. To learn more, please visit ghea21.org.
“Bard is eager to see the GHEA21 model replicated or adapted to provide opportunities for many more displaced students than GHEA21 alone can serve,” said Daniel Calingaert, GHEA21 managing director and Bard dean for Global Programs. “The Future Universities Alliance will give us a structured space to test our ideas with fellow innovators around the world and share what we have learned through developing GHEA21.”
The Bard Global Degree is a synchronous, online degree program for students displaced or threatened by conflict, crisis, or political repression who have little or no access to a rigorous liberal arts education. Students enroll in the same Associates and Bachelors of Arts degree programs as on Bard’s main campus, earn academic certificates, and graduate with accredited Bard associate’s and bachelor’s degrees. To learn more, visit globaldegree.bard.edu.
More information about the Future Universities Alliance is available at futureuniversities.org.
Post Date: 06-10-2026