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Vassar’s Community Works Campaign: Funding Critical Services Across the Hudson Valley

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.

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Vassar Women Founders Redefine Entrepreneurship—"It’s a Mindset,” They Say

Three women founders—all alums—redefine entrepreneurship as a mindset. Learn their secrets to questioning conventional wisdom, cultivating fearlessness, and navigating the path to success.

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At Signature Program, Students Employed by College Museums Discuss Ways to Attract Wider Audiences

At this Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts Signature Program, students and top museum administrators from 10 colleges gathered to discuss innovative strategies for attracting a wider, more diverse audience to college museums.

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Speaker Illuminates AI’s Increasing Role in War and Government Surveillance

During a campus lecture, Steve Feldstein, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, warned that AI surveillance and affordable technology are rapidly changing modern warfare and enabling more efficient means of government surveillance and control.

In the Media

The Hollywood Reporter announced that Warner Bros Pictures will be adapting the upcoming novel Under Story, by author Chloe Benjamin ’10.

Sara Josepha Hale, an early supporter of Vassar and correspondent to Matthew Vassar, was the catalyst behind the establishment of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, as noted in a New York Times op-ed.

The Jordan Peele documentary, High Horse: The Black Cowboy—featuring commentary by Professor Mia Mask (author of Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western)—is streaming on Peacock.

Author Mary McCarthy ’33, best known for her novel The Group, was the subject of an article in the University of Washington's The Daily.

Phylis Klaus ’53 was named to the Prenatal Science Research Institute 2025 Hall of Honor for her work to promote compassionate care, championing the doula in women's obstetrics.