Bard College at Simon's Rock

Rock was officially founded in 1964 and was located on a 275-acre (1.1-km²) campus in Great Barrington, a small town (pop. 7,500) in the Berkshires region of Massachusetts until summer 2025.
The name "Simon's Rock" comes from a large rock, a glacial erratic, in the woods on the campus, a short walk from the main part of the campus. At the time that Simon's Rock earned its name, in the early 1920s, the woods that now surround it were part of the vast area of land called Great Pine Farm. The rock was a favorite spot for people who lived nearby, especially children. One neighborhood child, a little girl named Simon, claimed the rock as her own.
The college's founder, Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, had formerly been headmistress at Concord Academy, a private girls' school. She concluded from her experience, and that of her colleagues, that for many students the latter two years of high school are wasted on repetitious and overly constrained work. Many young students, she thought, are ready to pursue college-level academic …