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ICE Rescinds Directive Opposed by Vassar and Many Other Colleges

International students will no longer be forced to leave the country if they must take online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Feature Article Posted 7/16/2020 Read article

Vassar’s New Rachlin Director of Jewish Student Life Ready to “Hit the Ground Running”

Rabbi Bryan Mann has been named Vassar’s new Rachlin Director of Jewish Student Life and Assistant Director of the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices.

Feature Article Posted 7/13/2020 Read article

Vassar Joins 180 Colleges Fighting New ICE Directive

Vassar is supporting a lawsuit that seeks to block ICE from expelling from the United States international students who must take online classes because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Feature Article Posted 7/13/2020 Read article

Workshops Open Campus Dialogue on Anti-Semitism

In the wake of the deadly attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue, then-Rachlin Director of Jewish Student Life Elizabeth Aeschlimann organized a pair of workshops on anti-Semitism led by Cherie Brown, founder of the National Coalition Building Institute.

Feature Article Posted 7/10/2020 Read article

Follow up from Info Session re: Summer 2020 Work on Campus

Feature Article Posted 7/9/2020

Seeking Justice for Death Row Prisoners and Sharing a History That Needs to be ConfrontedSeeking Justice for Death Row Inmates and Victims of Racial Terror

Adam Murphy ’10 says his Vassar education helped shape his career as a lawyer for legal icon Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative.

Feature Article Posted 7/6/2020 Read article

President Bradley Announces Plans for Bringing Students Back to Campus for Fall Semester

Vassar has developed a plan that will enable students to return to the campus for the fall semester, President Elizabeth Bradley announced.

Feature Article Posted 7/1/2020 Read article

Vassar Astronomer Colette Salyk Helps Hubble Team Analyze ‘Bat Wing’

Vassar College Assistant Professor of Astronomy Colette Salyk recently joined a team of scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute to analyze a flapping, “bat-like shadow” of a fledgling star’s planet-forming disk that had been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Feature Article Posted 6/25/2020 Read article

Vassar Community Members Find Creative Ways to Help During Pandemic

When the COVID-19 crisis shut down most activities on campus, many in the Vassar community mobilized to help others cope with the impact of the pandemic.

Feature Article Posted 6/25/2020 Read article

The Gift of Ease

Thanks to a donation from Vassar Trustee Debra Fagel Treyz ’74 and her husband, Jim, scholars from all over the world can now easily gain access to information about Vassar’s Archives and Special Collections.

Feature Article Posted 6/25/2020 Read article

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ICE Rescinds Directive Opposed by Vassar and Many Other Colleges

Vassar’s New Rachlin Director of Jewish Student Life Ready to “Hit the Ground Running”

Vassar Joins 180 Colleges Fighting New ICE Directive

Workshops Open Campus Dialogue on Anti-Semitism

Follow up from Info Session re: Summer 2020 Work on Campus

Seeking Justice for Death Row Prisoners and Sharing a History That Needs to be ConfrontedSeeking Justice for Death Row Inmates and Victims of Racial Terror

President Bradley Announces Plans for Bringing Students Back to Campus for Fall Semester

Vassar Astronomer Colette Salyk Helps Hubble Team Analyze ‘Bat Wing’

Vassar Community Members Find Creative Ways to Help During Pandemic

The Gift of Ease