fees and discounts

Fees

One-Day: Writer as Reader Workshops: The one-day workshop fee is $130 for tuition, morning coffee, lunch, and materials. The Institute encourages teachers from the same school to participate by offering a 10 percent discount to schools sending a team of three or more teachers to any of the workshops.

Weekend Workshops: The complete weekend workshop fee is $600. This fee includes tuition, meals (excluding Saturday dinner), and materials. It does not include housing . Upon registration, participants will receive a list of local area accommodations. The Holiday Inn in Kingston, New York (845-338-0400) offers rooms at a discount for those reserving rooms at least two weeks in advance.

Weeklong Workshops: The weeklong workshop fee is $950. The fee includes tuition and a single-occupancy room on the Bard campus, meals (beginning with Sunday dinner and ending with Saturday breakfast), and materials. The commuter fee is $750.

To register directly for a room at the Kingston Holiday Inn, please click on the link below:

• Holiday Inn room request (discounted rooms offered to participants).

Discounted fees for prospective teachers

Scholarships are available for students studying to become teachers as well as for those considering teaching as a career.

For general information about workshop registration, call or write:

Judi Smith, Program Administrator
Institute for Writing and Thinking
Bard College
PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
Phone: 845-758-7484
E-mail: jsmith@bard.edu

Academic Credit

Through the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program at Bard College, workshop participants may earn one graduate credit for each weekend workshop, plus a process reflection paper, or two graduate credits for the July weeklong workshop, plus a process reflection paper and a lesson plan on using writing in the classroom. Graduate credit is not given for participation in one-day workshops or conferences. An additional fee of $100 is required which pays for feedback on the first draft of the student's paper, the final grading, and the first copy of his or her transcript. Students should send in a check made payable to Bard College with their first draft. For further information, please call or write Cecilia Maple, MAT Program, Bard College, 845-758-7145, or e-mail cmaple@bard.edu.