Every year, volunteers from the Vassar community choose 10 local nonprofit organizations that will receive financial support through the College’s Community Works program. This year’s goal is $87,500 and 225 donors.

Award-winning actor William H. Macy critiqued performances by several Vassar drama majors and offered some career advice during a three-hour master class recently in the Streep Studio in the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film.

Vassar Trustee Leslie Jackson Chihuly ’83 is giving the College’s $500 million fundraising campaign a kick start with a series of gifts totaling more than $2 million. They include an estate gift, a donation to the Health and Wellness Fund, annual gifts to the Vassar Fund, and a donation of several works created by her husband, renowned artist Dale Chihuly.

More than 150 members of the Vassar community gathered on the campus November 19 to pay tribute to the life and career of beloved architecture professor Jeh Vincent Johnson, who designed the Center—rededicating the gathering place in his name.

David Ambroz ’02 spent most of his childhood either homeless or in foster care. Now he’s working to combat homelessness and improve the foster care system.

Three military veterans and a member of a military family talked about how their experiences in and out of the military had shaped their lives at an event titled “Service after Service” hosted by the Vassar Veterans Association.

New Vassar podcast, Conversations @ the Salt Line, launching November 1, seeks to capture that spirit of purposeful collisions. It’ll be a place where diverse thought meets impassioned dialogue.

Lauding the success of a five-year experiment known as the Engaged Pluralism Initiative, President Elizabeth H. Bradley has announced the program will continue as an integral part of the campus culture.