Change Advisor

Contact us to: request an academic transcript, send a verification of enrollment or graduation, find out about Moderation, drop or add a class, register to take a course pass/fail, withdraw from a class, change your adviser or major, apply for permission to take a summer or winter course at another college, print a grade release form, register a legal name change or ask about graduation or check your progress toward your degree.

Every student at Bard has an academic adviser who is a member of the College's faculty. Faculty advisers hold regular advisory conferences with their student advisees throughout the semester, provide guidance and assistance to students during the registration process, and counsel students on applications for internships, plans for after graduation, and fellowship and scholarship opportunities. Students can look up their academic advisor on their online information portal (BIP).

The mission of the Dean of Studies Office is to support students in their academic programs of study and assist them in finding and meeting academic and intellectual challenges. We help them develop environmental mastery skills, promote fluency in the many forms of discourse required by the college's rigorous curriculum, foster collaborative inquiry that aims to deepen intellectual engagement, and assist students in identifying opportunities to excel outside of the regular curriculum and co-curriculum.

The Center for Student Life & Advising offers support from the Dean of Students team, and can help students get connected to a host of other academic or co-curricular resources on campus.