Our Partners

The Bard Early College Academy at the Urban Assembly School of Music and Art (UAMA) enables UAMA students in 11th and 12th grade to enroll as part-time undergraduate students of Bard College and earn tuition-free college credits concurrently with their high school studies. Participating students take a liberal arts college course of study that aims to intellectually engage UAMA students and help them prepare for and succeed in college.

The Bard Early College Academy establishes an academic extension of Bard College at the UAMA. College courses are taught by Bard Early College faculty, and take place on the UAMA campus within the UAMA course schedule. Additionally, students participate in field trips, including conferences and academic events on the Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, and joint programming with Bard’s other early colleges in the tri-state area. Upon completion of the Bard Seminar sequence, UAMA students have the opportunity to earn as much as a semester of Bard College credits, tuition-free.

The ArtsHub is a launch pad established by the Arts Office of the New York City Department of Education. A central space in located the same location as UAMA, it provides a place where students, artists, and educators can collaborate, create and learn.

The Arts Hub’s approach is 3-pronged:
1) Offer significantly expanded access to the arts for NYCDOE students.
2) Engaging world-class artists to provide high quality professional learning opportunities
for educators that they can take back to their classrooms.
3) Engage cultural and arts partners from all corners of the city in youth programs.

To learn more about the ArtsHub, check out official page of the NYC DOE Arts Office

Coming in Fall of 2024

UA Music and Art’s Bard Early College Academy is expanding course offerings with Bard College and a new partnership with University in High School SUNY Albany to provide all 12th graders with dual credit enrollment. This partnership is designed to ensure all UAMA graduates are both career ready in their arts major and college ready with a minimum of a full year of transferable college course credits.