Every year, volunteers from the Vassar community choose 10 local nonprofit organizations that will receive financial support through the College’s Community Works program. This year’s goal is $87,500 and 225 donors.
Vassar Trustee Leslie Jackson Chihuly ’83 is giving the College’s $500 million fundraising campaign a kick start with a series of gifts totaling more than $2 million. They include an estate gift, a donation to the Health and Wellness Fund, annual gifts to the Vassar Fund, and a donation of several works created by her husband, renowned artist Dale Chihuly.
New Vassar podcast, Conversations @ the Salt Line, launching November 1, seeks to capture that spirit of purposeful collisions. It’ll be a place where diverse thought meets impassioned dialogue.
Lauding the success of a five-year experiment known as the Engaged Pluralism Initiative, President Elizabeth H. Bradley has announced the program will continue as an integral part of the campus culture.
Amanda Potter has joined the staff at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center as Assistant Director of Learning and Community Engagement, ramping up the museum’s community outreach efforts.
President Elizabeth H. Bradley and Peter Mathieson, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), have laid the groundwork for mutually beneficial collaboration between the two institutions—the third such global partnership Bradley has established.
Vassar has received a grant to develop more robust partnerships with community colleges that take part in the Exploring Transfer program and to engage more four-year liberal arts colleges in developing such programs of their own.
Construction has begun on a project that will add 40 apartments to Vassar’s faculty housing stock. The four-story, 54,000-square-foot building will be located on Watson Road between Hooker and Raymond avenues adjacent to the campus
Jonathan Littman ’85, Chief Executive Producer of Jerry Bruckheimer Television, talked to a gathering of Vassar students about his life in the entertainment industry and offered some career advice.
