Students

Vassar has earned a Gold Seal from Civic Nation’s ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for high student-voter turnout in the 2020 election.

Vassar College has received a $156,000 grant from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation that will fund faculty-mentored research projects conducted by six students over the next three years.

As Vassar geared up for the start of the Spring Semester,  the College had protocols in place to ensure the safety of everyone on campus.

For the 32nd year, the Office of Community-Engaged Learning collected toys, books and other gifts from members of the Vassar community for migrant farmworkers’ children.

Thanks to a gift given in memory of an alumna, a computer-generated music box called a digital carillon serenades the campus twice a day.

Two Vassar student-athletes, Andrew Goldsmith ’22 and Jake Kaplan ’22, will compete in the 21st Maccabiah Games next summer in Israel. They will join more than 10,000 other Jewish athletes from 85 countries at the event.

One of Vassar’s oldest traditions—gathering together for Convocation—resumed for the first time in 747 days on September 22. On a beautiful fall day on Commencement Hill, the campus community celebrated the start of the fall semester. President Elizabeth Bradley’s summed up the occasion succinctly: “I’m so thrilled to be with all of you—on campus, together, at last!”

Two days before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a top editor from the Wall Street Journal traded observations with student journalists and media experts about the evolving ethics of news photography at a forum at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.

Fifteen Vassar students were enrolled for 10 weeks this summer in the College’s Community Fellows program under the auspices of the Office of Community-Engaged Learning (OCEL). Now in its 23rd year, the program matches students’ skills and interests with the needs of not-for-profit and government agencies. Each of the students is paid a stipend by the College.