GREAT BARRINGTON — The looming shutdown of Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Bard Academy at Simon’s Rock will cost 116 jobs, according to a filing with the state Labor officials made public Friday.
The layoffs will be effective starting June 30 but some will stay on until Dec. 31, the college told the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development in a letter dated Wednesday.
The layoff dates start with 28 instructional staffers, six administrative staff, seven academic support jobs and 10 student support staff June 30. Then five more student support staff on July 31.
Bard plans to lay off 52 student support staff Aug. 31 and three administrators on Sept. 30. Five more student support staff will be laid off Dec. 31.
Bard also told the state it is possible that one or more employees would remain to assist with administrative aspects of closing the facility. But even those would remain for no more than 60 days.
The college and academy announced their planned shutdowns in November.
Both will move to Bard College’s Massena Campus in Barrytown, New York, near its main campus in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, for fall 2025.
Great Barrington votes will consider zoning changes for the Bard property that could allow more uses besides education and single-family homes at a Town Meeting the afternoon of Saturday, May 3.
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