The academic institution provides internships for Marist history majors and contributes to local happenings, such as the Walkway Over the Hudson and the Mount Beacon Inclined Railway Restoration Society.

The Hudson River Valley Institute was founded out of the necessity to preserve, protect, and interpret one of only forty Congressionally designated National Heritage Areas.

[1] The Hudson River Valley Review is a journal of regional studies published by the Institute, featuring articles on the history and heritage of the Hudson River and research on regionalism.

It was started in 1984 at Bard College as The Hudson Valley Regional Review.

[2] The Digital Library can be found on the HRVI's homepage and it contains full-text of issues going back to 2003.