The United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region awarded a Community Fund Grant to the Office of Community Engaged Learning (OCEL), led by Elizabeth Cannon, Director of OCEL, to support the Vassar English Language Learners Outreach Program (VELLOP), part of the Vassar Education Collaboration now a core program of OCEL.
The 2024–25 season was historic for Vassar Athletics. The Brewers finished 46th in the Division III Learfield Directors’ Cup, placing in the top 11 percent nationally for the first time. Teams won championships, advanced to national tournaments, and women’s rugby earned its fourth Division II national title. Student-athletes excelled in the classroom, launched the Athletics Hall of Fame, and celebrated major facility upgrades that will boost competition and enhance their experience.
The Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts—a convening space where scholars, students, and professionals from all over the world engage in meaningful work on contemporary challenges—has just announced its schedule of symposiums for the 2025–26 academic year.
Professor Sa’ed Atshan, the 2024-2025 Randolph Fellow in Peace, Conflict, and the Middle East, provided students and College leadership with a wealth of opportunities to examine issues related to peace, conflict, and restorative justice during his time at Vassar.
Celebrating the official kickoff of the 100th Anniversary of Vassar’s cherished Arboretum on Arbor Day, students, faculty, staff, and alums came together to enjoy a day of activities that included a gratitude walk, a ceremony honoring the campus grounds crew, the Class of 2027 tree planting and more.
Students, faculty, staff, and administrators from nearly a dozen institutions recently gathered to explore questions about the future of belonging and mattering in higher education. They tackled topics ranging from ancestral intelligence to AI.
A rise in the number of drug overdoses in Poughkeepsie and the Hudson Valley, principally due to Fentanyl, has prompted Vassar health officials to add a new tool—Narcan—to campus first-aid tool kits.
Vassar recently hosted the TMI Project for an afternoon of vulnerable storytelling, as part of the Engaged Pluralism program’s Spring 2025 series, Exploring Difficult Dialogues—a campus-wide effort to foster meaningful conversations around complex and often stigmatized topics.
