With support from the Mellon Foundation-funded Community-Engaged Intensives in the Humanities (CEIH) grant, Office of Community-Engaged Learning’s (OCEL) Elizabeth Cannon and Zoë Markwalter presented at the 2024 International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Intersections Conference. They traveled to the University of San Diego’s Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice and shared their presentation on “Pedagogical Innovations through Community-Engaged Coursework and Compensation of Community Partners as Co-Educators.”
Vassar welcomed to campus for the first time Jacob Mnookin, Director of Partnership and Innovation at the Davis United World College Scholars Program, which provides scholarships and other support to graduates of the 18 United World Colleges who are pursuing undergraduate degrees at Vassar and 100 other institutional partners nationwide.
The Terra Foundation for American Art (Chicago, IL) has made a major grant to the Loeb to support planning with a diverse group of advisors for a reinstallation of the Founding Galleries, home of the mid-nineteenth century works of the Hudson River School that were part of Vassar’s original art collection.
John Bradley, Executive Director of the Vassar Education Collaboration (VEC), received a Community Fund Grant from United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region to support the Vassar English Language Learners Outreach Program (VELLOP)
Jennifer Rubbo, Director of the Environmental Cooperative, received a NYS OCFS (Office of Children and Family Services) Youth Development Program Grant that will fund summer job opportunities for local youth to work alongside Vassar students and staff to implement the Exploring Science Program at the Vassar Preserve.
Lev Winickoff ’25 received a 2024 Barnabas McHenry Award to create a video project in collaboration with members of the Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohicans. The video will document a Munsee story told by an elder (in English) with contributions by children in the tribe (in Mohican) and incorporate paintings reflecting the natural beauty of the Hudson River Valley along with Munsee symbolism.
This grant award will support the continuing project of invasive species monitoring, assessment, and control this summer on Vassar’s Ecological Preserve, as well as at collaborator's sites.
The Infant Toddler Center at Vassar has been awarded the workforce retention grant this year with bonuses targeted at retraining, rewarding, and recruiting early childhood professionals.
This grant will support Vassar Athletics' commitment to providing more opportunities for women and ethnic minorities in Division III athletics leadership positions.
