On and Off Campus Simon’s Rock Appoints New Provost Ian Bickford, a 1995 graduate of Simon’s Rock, has been named provost of Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College, Bard President Leon Botstein announced. Bickford began his term in January, succeeding Peter Laipson, Emily H. Fisher Research Fellow of Bard College. Bickford is a scholar of early modern literature and one of three siblings who graduated from Simon’s Rock. He began his work with Bard in 2007 as a member of the faculty, first at Simon’s Rock, and then at the Bard High School Early College in Queens, New York. He has since participated in the founding of Bard early college programs in Baltimore and Harlem. Bickford served as the first dean of Bard Academy at Simon’s Rock, a two-year high-school program preparing ninth- and 10th-graders for early college, and as dean of the Bard Early Colleges. “As we enter a period of invention and new directions, it is fitting that the next provost of Simon’s Rock is the first alumnus of the college to serve in that role, as well as a leader in the national early college movement,” says Stuart Breslow, chair of the Simon’s Rock Board of Overseers and a Bard trustee. Says Bickford, “The education at Simon’s Rock is unparalleled. As we pivot to the next 50 years, I think we’ll find that the educational vision we have created and tended here has also taken root in the world beyond our campus. I could not be more pleased or proud to have a part in such an exciting new moment.” Ian Bickford. photo Dan Karp
Levy Institute Workshop and Annual Minsky Conference A workshop on “Gender and Macroeconomics: Current State of Research and Future Directions,” organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with the generous support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, was held in New York City March 9–11, with the goal of advancing the current framework that integrates gender and unpaid work into macroeconomic analysis and enables the development of gender-aware and equitable economic policies. More than 40 economists, researchers, and statisticians attended, including IDRC Senior Program Specialist Madiha Ahmed; Radhika Balakrishnan, professor and faculty director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University; Senior Economic Affairs Officer Elissa Braunstein, UNCTAD; Program Officer Helena Choi, Hewlett Foundation; Valeria Esquivel, research coordinator on gender and development, UNRISD; Levy Institute Senior Scholar Nancy Folbre, director, Program on Gender and Care Work, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Alicia Girón, professor and researcher, Institute for Economic Research, National University of Mexico; Caren Grown, senior director, Gender Group, World Bank; Lisa Kolovich, economist, International Monetary Fund; Jan Kregel, director of research, Levy Institute, and professor of development finance, Tallinn University of Technology; Ruth Levine, director, Global Development and Population Program, Hewlett Foundation; Thomas Masterson, research scholar and director of applied micromodeling, Levy Institute; IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Siwa Msangi; Lindsey Reichlin, program manager, Institute for Women’s Policy Research; Levy Institute Research Associate Pavlina R. Tcherneva, associate professor of economics and director, Economics and Finance Program, Bard College; Maureen Were, research manager, Central Bank of Kenya; and Ajit Zacharias, senior scholar and program director, Levy Institute. The Levy Institute’s 25th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, “Will the Global Economic Environment Constrain US Growth and Employment?,” was held at Blithewood, on the Bard College campus, on April 12 and 13. This year’s conference, which was organized with support from the Ford Foundation,
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addressed whether the global economic slowdown will jeopardize the implementation and efficiency of Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms, the transition of monetary policy away from zero interest rates, the “new” normal of fiscal policy, and the use of fiscal policies aimed at achieving sustainable growth and full employment, among other issues. Speakers included former U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.); European Central Bank Vice President Vítor Constâncio; Richard Berner, director, Office of Financial Research, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Henry Kaufman, president, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc.; Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia University; Lakshman Achuthan, cofounder and chief operations officer, Economic Cycle Research Institute; Levy Institute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou; Jan Kregel; journalist Izabella Kaminska, Financial Times; Michael Masters, founder and chairman of the board, Better Markets; L. Randall Wray, senior scholar, Levy Institute, and professor of economics, Bard College; Robert J. Barbera, codirector, Center for Financial Economics, The Johns Hopkins University; Loukas Tsoukalis, Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, Harvard University; Morgan Stanley Managing Director Martin L. Leibowitz; Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho, senior scholar, Levy Institute, and emeritus professor of economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Robert A. Johnson, president, Institute for New Economic Thinking, and senior fellow and director, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute; Eduardo Porter, columnist, New York Times; Edward Kane, professor of finance, Boston College; Levy Institute Research Associate Stephanie A. Kelton, chief economist, U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and professor, University of Missouri–Kansas City; New York Times reporter Peter Eavis; Albert M. Wojnilower, economic consultant, Craig Drill Capital; Levy Institute Research Scholar Michalis Nikiforos; Walker F. Todd, trustee, American Institute for Economic Research; Frank Veneroso, president, Veneroso Associates, LLC; Thorvald Grung Mae, Levy Institute research associate and special adviser, Financial Stability Department, Norges Bank; Scott Fullwiler, professor of economics and James A. Leach Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics, Wartburg College; Mario Tonveronachi, professor of the economics of financial systems, University of Siena; Theo Francis, special writer, The Wall Street Journal; and Jesse Eisinger, senior reporter, ProPublica.