only about 400 students (though due to its small size, large fluctuations in class enrollment and admissions are common), resulting in a very low student-to-faculty ratio, around 8:1. Few classes have more than 15 students; none have more than 30. Some classes have as few as three students, and independent study or tutorial courses in which one student works closely with a professor are common.
== Leadership ==
=== Presidents ===
Elizabeth Blodgett Hall (1966–1972)
Baird W. Whitlock (1972–1977)
Samuel McGill (1977–1979)
Leon Botstein (1979–present)
=== Provost (or Dean) and Vice President ===
U Ba Win (1979–1987)
Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr. (1987–2004)
Mary Marcy (2004–2011)
Peter Laipson (2011–2015)
Ian Bickford (2016–2020)
Dimitri Papadimitriou (2019, acting)
John Weinstein (2020–present)
== Student life ==
=== Athletics ===
The llama is the mascot of Bard College at Simon's Rock, due to the proximity of the college soccer fields to Seekonk Veterinary Hospital, a veterinary clinic that, at one time, had …
