Partner Institutions
The Global Collaborative for the Liberal Arts is a partnership between institutions to integrate liberal arts into academic programs. The collaboration aims to promote critical thinking, creativity, and inclusive leadership.
“Vassar and each of its global partners are seeking the best way to educate future citizens to engage with today’s concerns, and we learn best and adapt when we talk across borders and educational models of how to do that.”
—President Elizabeth Bradley, Vassar Quarterly, Spring 2023
“I have experienced firsthand how travel and collaboration across borders can generate lasting relationships and the most meaningful connections.”
Talia Yustein ’26
Our shared objective
Outcomes So Far
IIT Bombay
Mumbai, India
Creating the LASE program to augment the technical training of top students in engineering and computer science to broaden their perspectives and be more engaged in social and cultural implications of technological change.
“This experience highlighted an important aspect of the liberal arts model: the value of a well-rounded education across multiple disciplines.”
Croix Horsley ’26
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Edinburgh-Vassar Scholars Program, which allows Vassar students to earn an MSc in Planetary Health from the University of Edinburgh Establishing a major multidisciplinary effort (Edinburgh Futures Institute) to inspire undergraduate and graduate programs in novel ways.
The University of Global Health Equity
Butaro, Rwanda
Innovating a new undergraduate medical curriculum that includes a broad range of courses, using liberal arts pedagogy in order to equip physicians to address complex issues in social medicine and health equity. Denis Regnier, Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at UGHE, and Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Thomas Parker, created ”Blue Rwanda: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Water, Health, and Sustainability”, a spring 2024 course that spanned into on-site study in Rwanda.
Vassar
New York, USA
Inspiring leading colleges to sustain the tradition of liberal arts approaches (content, pedagogy, and inclusive culture) through the Institute for the Liberal Arts.