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.
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.
Members of the Vassar community and people from the local community attended a screening of Beyond Survival, a documentary about the struggle for the adoption of a law that enables judges to consider imposing lower sentences on survivors of domestic abuse who can establish that their offenses were tied to such abuse.
Vassar historian Mita Choudhury, the Evalyn Clark Chair, has begun a 2025–26 fellowship at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where she is developing a book on sexual violence in the early modern French Church within an interdisciplinary community of scholars.
