Members of the Vassar community and people from the local community attended a screening of Beyond Survival, a documentary about the struggle for the adoption of a law that enables judges to consider imposing lower sentences on survivors of domestic abuse who can establish that their offenses were tied to such abuse.
Thanks to a generous donation from alum Anne Codey ’65, A niche in the Preserve at Vassar has been converted into a place to “play and learn” about nature.
A delegation of women who serve as faculty and administrators at three Japanese universities recently visited the campus for discussions on women’s leadership roles.
Rev. Callista Isabelle has taken the reins at the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices. She says one of her first tasks is to listen to what students and others in the Vassar community have to say.
Sixteen Poughkeepsie High School students spent 10 days on the Vassar campus gaining first-hand knowledge about the college experience through the Exploring College Program
A conversation over lunch between President Elizabeth Bradley and Chinery Foundation attorney and Trustee Jayne Kurzman ’68 led to a $1.3-million gift for a new neuroscience lab housing eight new state-of-the-art microscopes.
As today’s students face an increasing amount of stress in their daily lives, Vassar is training some student-facing administrators on how to help them alleviate it.
