Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.60
Liaison Laurie Husted
Submission Date June 14, 2011
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.0

Bard College
IN-1: Innovation 1

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Taun Toay
Associate Vice President
Vice President
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A brief description of the innovative policy, practice, program, or outcome :

The Bard College Citizen Science program as
an innovative practice for the institution. This program focuses on providing a cornerstone of
scientific literacy to all students in their first year of college level study. Students who are
scientifically literate go on to become scientifically literate members of our global society. We
believe that this curricular component will be an essential aspect for student understanding the of
importance of sustainable practices, and encourage innovation and creativity in pursuing
sustainable living.
Our goal for this program is to increase the scientific literacy
of all of our students by immersing them in an intensive, shared experience in which they learn
to gather, interpret, and use evidence as scientists do.
Explored the overarching
question, “How can we reduce the global burden of infectious disease?” students engaged in
three rotations of study, in the wet laboratory, in a computer modeling laboratory environment,
and in a problem based learning classroom.
The classroom experiences were complemented by a rich series of civic engagement
opportunities. This portion of the extracurricular activities were added to the Citizen Science
program in order to provide students with time to be re-oriented to the available civic
engagement opportunities campus and the surrounding communities. The set up of the singular
course format, with limited homework and studying requirements gave the students a chance to
freely participate in opportunities that they previously might not have had time for, or had not
been aware of.
We feel that the Citizen Science program is an essential addition to the high quality
liberal arts education that Bard College provides. This program has the potential to influence
students to become more scientifically curious and also be scientifically literate members of the
global community.


A letter of affirmation from an individual with relevant expertise:
The website URL where information about the innovation is available :
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