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.
The Office of Community-Engaged Learning and Vassar Education Collaboration have greatly strengthened the College’s relationship with the surrounding area.
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 Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts, scheduled to open in the fall, will host a series of symposiums during the 2024–25 academic year that address multifaceted issues of local, national, and global concern, College officials announced this week.
Vassar hosted a formal groundbreaking ceremony on June 12 for the new Dede Bartlett Center for Admission and Career Education Center, currently under construction at the north end of the campus.
As part of Vassar’s Inclusive History Initiative, students in a Vassar Intensive presented research relating to the Rev. Howard Thurman, a religious and civil rights leader who gave more than a dozen sermons at the College between 1928 and 1957.
