Over 100 prospective Bard students—juniors and seniors in high school—signed up to attend sample Language and Thinking sessions during the Fall Conference on Admissions, 11 October 2010 on the Annandale campus. Eight Language and Thinking faculty led sessions in which students worked with texts by Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt and reflected on their options for future study.
In August of 2010, Catherine Taylor, who has taught with the program since 2006, led a workshop for high school guidance counselors in which they worked with Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” to explore the role of guidance counselors in helping students to choose between the comforts of the familiar and the challenges of the unfamiliar as they consider options for college.
These events were part of an ongoing collaboration between Language and Thinking and the Office of Admissions aimed at increasing awareness of the program through workshops that employ the Language and Thinking approach to address issues of concern to college counselors and prospective students.