What comes after Vassar? For first-generation, low-income students, the path can be especially daunting. At the FLI Forward Conference, alums shared hard-won lessons about careers, uncertainty, and finding your way—and reminded students they don’t have to go it alone.
 

Vassar hosted educators from 32 institutions for conversations about peacebuilding, collaboration, and preparing students to become changemakers in an interconnected world.

Bekir Hodzic ’26, whose family survived genocide in Bosnia, will spend a Watson Fellowship year studying how communities and nations remember mass violence.

Vassar celebrated the dedication of The Dede Thompson Bartlett Center for Admission and Career Education on March 28, hailing the state-of-the-art building as a symbol of Vassar’s commitment to its students from admission to graduation and beyond.

Four recent Vassar alums are overseas this year teaching English as recipients of Fulbright fellowships. Vassar has consistently earned “Top Producer” status from the Fulbright program.

Students got advice and support from alum and parent mentors in a variety of fields to jump-start plans for their post-Vassar lives during Vassar’s Sophomore Career Connections, a three-day event hosted by the offices of Career Education and Advancement.

Students interested in fashion, entrepreneurship, and sweet kicks got an inside look at what it takes to make it in the apparel industry from luxury shoe designer Stuart Weitzman on September 25.

In a profoundly challenging time for higher-education funding characterized by federal retrenchment and disappearing grants, Mae Buck ’26 has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship worth $35,000.