A gift from Patrick and Tamar Smith Pichette ’86 will support a new conservation fellowship for a Vassar alum who will work at a Canadian wilderness preserve and then return to The Preserve at Vassar to assist with research, environmental monitoring and land management.
Members of the Vassar community helped to ensure that children of local migrant farmworkers and others in the community will have gifts to open for the holidays—donating loads of toys and games for the annual Daughters of Sarah Toy Drive.
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.
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.
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.
Amanda Potter has joined the staff at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center as Assistant Director of Learning and Community Engagement, ramping up the museum’s community outreach efforts.
President Elizabeth H. Bradley and Peter Mathieson, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), have laid the groundwork for mutually beneficial collaboration between the two institutions—the third such global partnership Bradley has established.
Vassar has received a grant to develop more robust partnerships with community colleges that take part in the Exploring Transfer program and to engage more four-year liberal arts colleges in developing such programs of their own.
