STEP is a new bachelor’s program at Al-Quds Bard College. It empowers students to understand the political and economic forces that shape the world and provides them with skills to be harnessed to solve pressing social and economic problems in Palestine and beyond. Palestine during this time- more than any time before- needs a cadre of STEP graduates to fulfill different societal, economic, and political roles.

The CoDesigning Cities project is concerned with questions of access to public and urban services in so-called marginalized and migrant (national and trans-national) communities. Al-Quds Bard College students NihalAlmasri, Khaled Amro, AmeedFaleh, NaghamAsal and Urban Studies & Spatial Practices lecturer Jens Haendeler traveled to Phoenix and Bogotá for four weeks alongside Master students from Universidad de los Andes and PhD students from Arizona State University.