About Barnard|Next

Lifelong Learning at an Institution Committed to Lifelong Success

Barnard|Next is offering distinctive lifelong learning programs for alums of Barnard College (and individuals they invite) and families of current Barnard students. We aim to facilitate new, exciting, and intensive opportunities to engage with pressing intellectual questions, while deepening connections across the Barnard network. You can read about Fall 2024 offerings here, and review the faculty who are teaching here. Beginning in Fall 2024, Barnard|Next will also provide classes open to broader populations of adult learners, as a means of broadening access to the incredible work produced by Barnard.

Since 2018, Beyond Barnard has provided lifelong career support for the global network of Barnard's 37,000 living graduates. Beyond Barnard provides lifelong career support to graduates in alignment with Barnard's mission as a women's college. Women experience more interruptions in their careers and more career changes than men — and it is vital for women to have access to exceptional career support during these moments of transition. To provide unfettered access to career support aligns deeply with Barnard's core mission as an institution.

But without a doubt, it's the curriculum and the intensive experience of the liberal arts and sciences that draws students to Barnard — and a commitment to learning and exploration remains core to the identity of graduates when they leave the College. By creating lifelong opportunities to engage with Barnard's curriculum, we aim to serve a vital need: to foster growth, development, skill-building, and connection on the basis of a shared passion for learning. Barnard|Next represents the College's effort to create distinctive engagement opportunities at the intersections of Barnard's historic strengths, leveraging its relationship to the City of New York, its commitment to equity and exploration of gender in all its complexity, and its global reach.

Barnard|Next

Barnard|Next's offerings consist of three individual programs: Alumnae Reading Groups, Enrichers, and Explorers are all designed especially for adult learners by our Barnard faculty experts. 

Registration is Open Now!

Barnard alums (and individuals they invite) and families of current Barnard students can now register. Questions about participation can be addressed to barnardnext@vbj4.com.