Great Barrington — In a press release, Bard College Board of Trustees and Bard College at Simon’s Rock Board of Overseers announced that Bard College at Simon’s Rock will be leaving Great Barrington to a new campus on Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
The school will open to Simon’s Rock students in the fall of 2025.
The press release states that current students will remain at the Great Barrington campus through the end of the next semester, Spring ’25, and those opting to continue their program of study and degree completion at Simon’s Rock and Bard can do so in the new location next fall.
“We are now at a pivotal moment for Simon’s Rock,” John B. Weinstein, Provost and Vice President at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, is quoted in the press release. “Departing from our beloved Great Barrington campus is heartbreaking – the campus has been my professional home for more than 20 years and my literal home for nearly five. It is full of memories for so many people. But this move is the only course of action for the school to preserve the viability of a residential early college experience in an unpredictable time for institutions of higher education nationwide.”
