AAVC Bestows 2019 Spirit of Vassar and Outstanding Faculty/Staff Awards

Vassar Celebrates 50 Years of Africana Studies Curriculum with Three-Day Conference

Vassar Trustees Endorse $13-million Plan to Move College toward Carbon Neutrality

Vassar professor and Former Dean Christopher Roellke Named President of Stetson University

Christopher Roellke, a faculty member and administrator at Vassar College for the past 21 years, has been named President of Stetson University. He assumes his new post July 1.

Summer Immersions Program: Getting a Jump-Start on College

Fourteen first-year students got a jump on their college careers this summer as members of the Summer Immersion in the Liberal Arts program sponsored by Vassar’s Engaged Pluralism Initiative (EPI). The young men and women, many of whom are the first in their families to attend college, spent four weeks on campus taking specially designed, credit-bearing courses, learning about resources the college offers, and taking part in service-based learning in the Poughkeepsie area.

Rwandan Alliance Yields Meaningful Experiences In and Out of Classroom

Four Vassar faculty and staff members kicked off the college’s partnership with the UGHE (University if Global Health Equity), a new medical school in Rwanda, this summer by teaching three-week courses to 30 UGHE students.

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