Grants in Action
Celebrating Vassar’s Grants and Those Who Lead Them
Grants in Action highlights and celebrates the grant funding, principal investigators, project leadership, and external partnerships that enrich faculty research, institutional programs, and the student experience at Vassar. It serves as a dynamic companion to the Grants Office site, where grant policies and processes are maintained.
Grants in Action: Exploring Transfer Together
Exploring Transfer (ET), a 5-week summer program hosted for over 35 years at Vassar, demonstrates the importance of efforts that target and support community college students who are considering transfer to a four-year college. Vassar’s recent grant from the ECMC Foundation is moving forward in some vital ways. Read more about the program and watch this video.
Institutional Grants
Grants in Action features institutional or programmatic grants, which enrich college-wide programs and priorities and support areas such as curricular innovation, faculty development, capital improvements, or strengthening ties with our surrounding community.
Community-Engaged Intensives in the Humanities
The initiative aims to foster and support the development of community-engaged intensives in the Humanities that cultivate long-lasting, equitable collaborations between Vassar College’s campus and people and organizations in the city of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, and the Hudson Valley.
Visit the Community-Engaged Intensives in the Humanities site
Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education
Vassar, Bard, Bennington, and Sarah Lawrence colleges founded the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education to explore what role institutions such as ours could play in addressing this development.
Visit the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education site
Grand Challenges
Founded in 2018 with the help of a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Grand Challenges program fosters inclusive excellence in STEM education at Vassar College through a five-year initiative of curricular innovation, faculty development, and community engagement.
The Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment at Vassar College
Funded by Luce Initiative of Asia and Environment (LIASE) with supplemental grants from Vassar, the Vassar College LIASE program organizes a series of activities to promote the understanding of Asia in environmental studies.
