A photo of Sunset Lake in autumn. The lake is covered by fog, and the trees are brown with sunlight reflecting off them,

Decolonizing Vassar: Living the Land Acknowledgment

Lenapehoking: traditional Lenape homeland, of which Vassar lands are part. (Sunset Lake on Vassar Campus): Lenape
Photo: Tamar M. Thibodeau

Decolonizing Vassar: Living the Land Acknowledgment

Pkuwiimakw (Joe-Pye-Weed, to be found on the Vassar Farm): Stockbridge Munsee

NAAC Steering Committee Membership

The NAAC Steering Committee is responsible for setting priorities, coordinating the work of the committee, and ensuring alignment with institutional commitments.

Steering Committee

Brian Daly, Professor of Physics on the Ethel and Alexander Klemin Chair in Physics
April Beisaw, Professor of Anthropology, Archaeological Consultant
Nicholas A. de Leeuw, Senior Lecturer in Psychological Science, Committee on Inclusion & Equity (CIE)
Jennifer Herrera, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Committee on Inclusion & Equity (CIE)
Molly McGlennen, Professor of English on the Ethel and Alexander Klemin Chair in English and Director of American Studies
Rebecca Pollet, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Student representative from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
Student representative from the VSA/CIE

Participating Members

Bart Thurber, The Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and Lecturer in Art
Kimberly Williams Brown, Associate Professor of Education, Director of Engaged Pluralism
Selena Hughes (shughes@vassar.edu), Engaged Pluralism (EP) Representative
Joe Tanski, Professor of Chemistry on the Matthew Vassar, Jr. Chair
Tracy Wright-Mauer (trwrightmauer@vassar.edu), Library Specialist
Tobias Devor (tdevor@vassar.edu), Office of Advancement
Ronald D. Patkus, Head of Special Collections and College Historian, Adjunct Associate Professor of History on the Frederick Weyerhaeuser Chair

NAAC will meet twice per semester, with meeting dates established and shared at the beginning of each semester. Attendance is required for Steering Committee members and optional for participating members and other members of the campus community.

To support focused and sustained progress, NAAC will establish working groups in the Fall. Each working group will be chaired by at least one member of the Steering Committee.