Vassar College has joined 32 peer colleges and universities in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Harvard University and the University of North Carolina in affirmation of 40 years of legal precedent in allowing the consideration of race and ethnicity as one of many factors in admission.
Award-winning producer Jason Blum ’91, CEO and Founder of Blumhouse, responsible for such films as Whiplash, Get Out and BlacKkKlansman, will donate $10 million to Vassar College, President Elizabeth Bradley announced.
Award-winning writer-actor-producer John Leguizamo regaled the 635 members of the class of ’22 with humor, passion, and practical advice at Vassar College’s 158th Commencement exercises Sunday on the Town of Poughkeepsie campus.
A rally in 1908 supporting women’s suffrage, opposed by then–Vassar College President James Monroe Taylor, was commemorated at the College on May 7 with the presentation of a historic marker from the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites.
Vassar College is pleased to announce the return of the Powerhouse Theater Season. The annual summer season brings together some of today’s most influential theatrical voices and welcomes the next generation of theater artists as members of the renowned Powerhouse Theater Training Program.
Three-time Grammy Award winner and Platinum music producer Jerry Wonda and the Rotary Clubs of the Hudson Valley will be honored at the Vassar Haiti Project’s (VHP) annual Art & Soul Gala, which will be held virtually on April 28.
The family of the late renowned architectural historian and Vassar Associate Professor of Art Andrew Tallon has donated his research and teaching materials, correspondence, and other materials to the College’s Archives and Special Collections Library.
Vassar College has launched a new initiative designed to expand its student veterans’ outreach and support by establishing an on-campus position dedicated to serving vets, President Elizabeth H. Bradley announced.
