Vassar’s Dean of Faculty announced that 11 members of the Vassar faculty in 10 academic disciplines have been granted tenure this year. Get acquainted with these scholars.
Amitava Kumar, Professor of English, is author of the recently published The Social Life of Indian Trains (Aleph Book Company, 2025), part of Aleph’s “Essential India” series.
More than 50 business and political leaders and others in the local community attended Vassar’s inaugural Community Breakfast at the Institute for the Liberal Arts.
Vassar faculty and administrators gathered in Thompson Library on February 9 to celebrate the opening of a freshly renovated space designed to enhance students’ academic experience
A Q&A with Associate Professor and Chair of Greek and Roman Studies Curtis Dozier, the author of The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine, the author of Sabrina & Corina, the short story collection selected as the Common Reading for this year’s first-year students, discussed her work during the 2026 William A. Starr Lecture.
For more than 50 years, Vassar’s multidisciplinary programs have encouraged students to tackle complex questions from multiple perspectives. The programs will receive a boost from planned renovations to the Old Laundry Building.
While on campus to receive the AAVC’s Young Alum Achievement Award, Ethan Slater ’14, who portrayed the lead in SpongeBob SquarePants and Boq in Wicked, talked to students and others in the Vassar community about his career as a performer.
Vassar students, faculty members and other storytellers in the media and entertainment took part in a two-day Signature Program at Vassar’s Institute for the Liberal Arts.
