Administration

Vassar welcomed four new members to the College’s Board of Trustees this year.

Vassar greeted 165 first-generation and low-income first-year students at the weeklong FLI Foundations orientation program.

Vassar Athletes and Coaches will host their annual Day of Giving, starting on Tuesday October 1 at 9 am and ending at noon on October 2.

Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges are planning to launch a program for community college students modeled after Vassar’s Exploring Transfer program.

Five Vassar students traveled to Rwanda this summer for their first in-person learning experience with students at the University of Global Health Equity.

Associate Professor of Education Kimberly Williams Brown, Vassar’s new Director of Engaged Pluralism, seeks to create a campus “that feels and looks inclusive to students, staff, administrators, and faculty.”

The inventor of a uniquely designed freshwater fishing rod won Vassar’s first Entrepreneur Pitch Competition.

Vassar’s Inclusive History project, an initiative launched last year to tell the College’s story more fully and honestly, has been gaining some momentum lately.

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.