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Viewbook (PDF) ADMISSION VIEWBOOK 2: Introduction 6: Campus Life 14: Academics 30: Student Life 38: Outcomes 41: Majors 42: Admission/Financial Aid VASSAR IS FUELED BY AN ABUNDANT ENERGY A CREATIVE FORCE, A CURIOUS SPIRIT, PROPELLING OUR PURSUITS, HOBBIES, STUDIES, AND ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS. As we feed off one another’s energy, we further ignite our own fascinations. We can be uncommonly motivated and passionately inspired. We can also be laid back. But we are never just one thing. People who live out loud and introspective old souls. And no matter who we are, how we’re feeling, or what we’re doing, we share that universal spark that illuminates the world around us. We invite you to explore the things that spark our world and to discover something that sparks yours as well. VASSAR / 1 TRIUMPH CHALLENGE TRIUMPH CHALLENGE SECTION 1 CAMPUS LIFE WHERE PROGRESS EVOLVES WHERE PROGRESS CULTIVATED NATURALLY VASSAR / 5 SECTION 1 CAMPUS LIFE THE STRUCTURE TO THRIVE— THE FREEDOM TO EXPLORE There’s a natural contrast built into everything we do, a positive tension, a push and pull between structure and freedom. Structure that guides us in our rigorous pursuit of knowledge. That creates spaces of support and belonging, and provides frameworks for navigating the complexities of our time. Freedom that drives us to discover not only the wild around us, but our own inner landscape. That urges us to dive headlong toward our passions, stoking the ceaseless flame of curiosity. In our approach to academics, in our commitment to honest, inclusive dialogue, in the literal evolution of our WHERE PROGRESS EVOLVES WHERE PROGRESS historic campus, contrasts like these give shape to Vassar College. NATURALLY VASSAR / 5 34 African American students end 3-day occupation Vassar becomes coeducational, the first of Main Building; new Black Studies program all-women’s college in the country to do so, granted, which then becomes Africana Studies, after declining Yale’s offer to merge in 1967. Vassar’s longest-running multidisciplinary program 1969 40 veterans, Vassar’s first male Meryl Streep ’73 wins her first students, enroll under the GI Bill 1946 Academy Award for Kramer vs. Kramer 1969 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1980 Rick Lazio ’80 becomes the first a college trustee, delivers the 1931 Vassar graduate elected to Congress commencement address 1990 Edna St. Vincent Millay ’17 1927 Lisa Kudrow ’85 begins her role as Phoebe becomes the first woman to win Buffay on the hit NBC sitcom Friends. the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1994 Vassar becomes first institution of Vassar hosts the first 1895 higher education in the nation to collegiate field day for 2013 partner with Posse Foundation in women in the United States recruiting and enrolling U.S. veterans 2015 Vassar is awarded the inaugural Jack Kent Cooke Prize Vassar Astronomy Professor Maria 1869 for Equity in Educational Excellence, a $1 million prize Mitchell and students travel to Iowa awarded each year to a college that excels in enrolling to observe solar eclipse and graduating low-income, high-achieving students 2016 Admiral Grace Hopper ’28, the “queen The Miscellany News is founded as 1866 of code” and “mother of computing” is one of the first independent student posthumously awarded the Presidential newspapers in the United States Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian 2016 honor, by President Barack Obama 1861 Vassar opens the Bridge Building for Laboratory Vassar College is Chartered 2019 Sciences, one of the largest science teaching and research facilities in the United States “Progress is my motto,” Matthew Vassar once wrote. As one of the most A PLACE successful brewers of the 19th century, Matthew was a noted philanthropist, Vassar College pledges to businessman, and community leader. His crowning achievement was the go carbon neutral by 2030 establishment of Vassar College in 1861. From the beginning, Vassar was TO EXPLORE committed to access, becoming the first institution of higher education in the United States to offer an education to women equal to the all-male Ivy League. Students were offered rigorous courses in subjects like art history, biology, THE BIG geology, mathematics, and music. We carried on our progressive legacy when we were the first formerly women’s college to go coeducational in 1969, and QUESTIONS continue our pathbreaking mission in pushing the liberal arts forward today. Buildings and Belonging is a digital tool and self-guided lens of 13 campus buildings, we celebrate and remember the VASSAR FACILITIES BUILDINGS AND campus tour that honors the contributions of African African American community members whose presence and BELONGING Americans to the history of Vassar College. Through the contributions have shaped our college over the years. Learn more at vassar.edu/buildings-and-belonging BRIDGE FOR LABORATORY SCIENCES Spanning the Fonteyn Kill wetland, THE LIBRARIES our dynamic STEM facility is a bridge The Libraries at Vassar hold one of the in more ways than one. Inside a largest undergraduate library collections in WHERE glass exterior specially designed to the United States with more than 1 million CULTURE reduce bird collisions, a network of volumes. The rare book collection includes interdisciplinary laboratories connects books important in women’s history, first the integrated sciences with the editions of English and American literary humanities. One such laboratory, the and historical works, examples of fine Interdisciplinary Robotics Research printing, cookbooks, children’s books, and Lab, is the first of its kind at a liberal rare maps and atlases. HORIZONS arts college, connecting researchers from biology, cognitive science, and computer science to explore topics like biorobotics, artificial learning, and evolutionary robotics. PRESIDENT’S HOUSE Since its completion in 1896, the CONTRASTSMEET President’s House has been used as a space THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB to host foreign dignitaries and dinners, but ART CENTER also as an open environment for students Founded in 1864 as the Vassar and faculty to gather and converse. Our ON OUR 1,000-ACRE CAMPUS, College Art Gallery, the Frances current President, Elizabeth Bradley, hosts YOU’LL FIND EVERYTHING Lehman Loeb Art Center houses weekly office hours at her house on Sunday evenings, and has even been known to host YOU NEED. HERE, TIMELESS Vassar College’s vast and comprehensive collection of artwork. students for hot chocolate in the parlor on ARCHITECTURE BLENDS WITH Featuring more than 21,000 works snow days. CUTTING-EDGE FACILITIES. that span art history, it was the first BOLD THINKING CONVERGES preplanned art museum at a college in the country. Some of its more WITH BREATHTAKING NATURAL notable collections include Matthew GORDON COMMONS BEAUTY. CITY LIFE AND OPEN AIR Vassar’s own Hudson River School Some of life’s deepest connections are THE MAIN BUILDING AND paintings, the Warburg Collection COALESCE. AND THE SPARK OF forged over a good meal. At Gordon THE COLLEGE CENTER of Old Master prints, and works by Commons, our campus dining center, SOMETHING GREAT BEGINS TO The beating heart of campus Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, Georgia we make sure the food we bring to the TAKE SHAPE. THE BEST WAY TO life at Vassar. Main Building was O’Keeffe, and Francis Bacon. table reflects our connection to the completed in 1865 and, at the time, KNOW IT IS TO EXPERIENCE IT wider world, too. We offer a range of housed almost the entire College. all-you-can-eat dishes, with options YOURSELF, BUT TO GIVE YOU A Today Main Building is home to that account for a range of preferences, HEAD START, ALLOW US TO SHOW dining, the Palmer Art Gallery, a allergies, and sensitivities. Gordon makerspace, and many student YOU AROUND SOME OF OUR Commons features deli, salad bar, resources, with upper floors and brick oven pizza stations, kosher FAVORITE VASSAR BUILDINGS. reserved for student housing. options, and fresh vegetables from the Vassar Farm. And around campus you can find the Street Eats food truck with its weekly rotating menu. VASSAR / 8 VASSAR / 9 SO WITH A Main House was listed as a National Historic COLLEGE, IT Landmark in 1986. “SHOULD POSSESS THE GERM OF LIFE WITHIN ITSELF; SOMETHING THAT Noyes House WILL GROW. THINGS MADE lounge is referred to as the Jetsons’ BY HUMAN HANDS ARE Lounge because of its modernist design. Noyes GENERALLY WITHOUT remains open during school LIFE; BUT EDUCATIONAL breaks to accommodate INSTITUTIONS SHOULD students who need to stay on campus. BE LIVING ENTITIES, AND RISE IN STRENGTH AND GRANDEUR BY AN INHERENT POWER.” RESIDENTIAL HOUSES —MATTHEW VASSAR WHERE A HOUSE BECOMES EXPLORE YOUR WORLD VASSAR COLLEGE A HOME With its acres of natural beauty, events, activities, and social life, Vassar’s campus can feel like a world unto itself. But AN ARBORETUM Before you set foot in a lecture hall, explore there’s so much more to explore beyond the edges of campus. Lathrop House The 1,000-acre Vassar campus is a living entity. Literally. mascot is the Here are just a few of the sights and activities just a stone’s the natural sciences in a lab, or get lost Honey Badger Mirroring the natural growth and evolution of our among the stacks at the Thompson Library, throw away. academic pursuits, the campus itself is a designated arboretum. A breathtaking and ever-growing collection your Vassar experience will begin in our Appalachian Trail Hudson Valley Renegades of more than 230 species of trees grow across the historic residential houses. First-year Minor League Baseball Team grounds and around Sunset Lake. Since 1868, students students can live in one of nine traditional Cushing House The Bardavon 1869 Opera have selected or planted class trees marking their own features an actual House Poughkeepsie Waterfront contribution to the landscape. Residential Houses. There’s no Greek life piece of Plymouth Farmers Market Rock incorporated on campus, a fact we celebrate, and 97% into its entryway.
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