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Vassar’s Dance Program has expanded its curriculum and is now a corrrelate. One example of the new directions the program is taking: a performance at the Spring Concert choreographed by visiting Bard College Professor of Dance Souleymane (Solo) Badolo, a native of the West African country of Burkina Faso. 

In March, representatives of Vassar, the University of Edinburgh, University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda,  and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay convened on the campus of the revered University of Edinburgh in Scotland to collaborate on initiatives incorporating the principles of the liberal arts.

Nearly 200 alums joined dozens of others in the Vassar community to celebrate the Alumnae House’s 100th anniversary and to pay tribute to its original benefactors, sisters Blanche Ferry Hooker of the class of 1894 and Queene Ferry Coonley, class of 1896.

Over the past seven years, the President’s Administrative Fellows program has helped launch careers for dozens of recent alums.

Students, faculty, and administrators gathered recently in Thompson Library for a symposium sponsored by the Vassar Environmental Research Institute, where they shared ideas on ways to combat climate change.

Vassar alum Rachel Simmons ’96 has had a winding career path—and she came to Vassar to tell students that’s OK.

Prize-winning playwright Solomon Hess’ 24 combined his two passions, writing The Game, a play that spotlights the origins of lacrosse.

As SCC celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, more than 250 students got the inside scoop on 18 industry sectors, learning from 100+ alum and parent mentors.

Vassar welcomed 14 new scholar-teachers to the College’s tenure-track faculty for the 2023-24 academic year.