Vassar’s Community Works campaign is raising essential funds for ten local agencies providing housing, food assistance, immigrant support, restorative justice programs, LGBTQ youth services, and more. With government funding declining, donations are vital to sustaining these community resources.
Vassar students, faculty members and other storytellers in the media and entertainment took part in a two-day Signature Program at Vassar’s Institute for the Liberal Arts.
Members of the Vassar community and people from the local community attended a screening of Beyond Survival, a documentary about the struggle for the adoption of a law that enables judges to consider imposing lower sentences on survivors of domestic abuse who can establish that their offenses were tied to such abuse.
Thanks to a generous donation from alum Anne Codey ’65, A niche in the Preserve at Vassar has been converted into a place to “play and learn” about nature.
A delegation of women who serve as faculty and administrators at three Japanese universities recently visited the campus for discussions on women’s leadership roles.
Rev. Callista Isabelle has taken the reins at the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices. She says one of her first tasks is to listen to what students and others in the Vassar community have to say.
Sixteen Poughkeepsie High School students spent 10 days on the Vassar campus gaining first-hand knowledge about the college experience through the Exploring College Program
