Private college in Poughkeepsie, New York, US
Vassar College
(
VASS
-?r
) is a
private
liberal arts college
in
Poughkeepsie
,
New York
, United States. Founded in 1861 by
Matthew Vassar
, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college became
coeducational
in 1969. The college offers
BA
degrees in more than fifty majors. Vassar College's varsity sports teams, known as the Brewers, play in the
NCAA
's
Division III
as members of the
Liberty League
. Currently, there are close to 2,500 students.
The college is one of the historic
Seven Sisters
, the first women's colleges in the U.S. The Vassar campus comprises over 1,000 acres (400 ha) and more than 100 buildings. A designated
arboretum
, the campus features more than 200 species of trees, a native plant preserve, and a 530-acre (210 ha)
ecological preserve
.
History
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Vassar was founded as a
women's school
under the name
Vassar Female College
in 1861.
[8]
Its first president was Milo P. Jewett, who had previously been first president of another women's school,
Judson College
;
[9]
he led a staff of ten professors and twenty-one instructors.
[10]
After one year, its founder,
Matthew Vassar
, had the word
Female
removed from the name, prompting some local residents of
Poughkeepsie, New York
, to quip that its founder believed it might one day admit male students. The college became
coeducational
in 1969.
[8]
Vassar was the second of the
Seven Sisters
colleges, higher education schools that were strictly for women, and historically sister institutions to the all-male
Ivy League
colleges. It was chartered by its namesake, brewer
Matthew Vassar
, in 1861 in the
Hudson Valley
, about 70 miles (110 km) north of
New York City
. The first person appointed to the Vassar faculty was
astronomer
Maria Mitchell
, in 1865.
Vassar adopted coeducation in 1969. Immediately following
World War II
, Vassar accepted a small number of male students on the
G.I. Bill
.
[11]
The formal decision to become co-ed came after its trustees declined an offer to merge with
Yale University
, its sibling institution, in the wave of mergers between the historically all-male colleges of the Ivy League and their Seven Sisters counterparts.
[12]
In its early years, Vassar was associated with the social elite of the Protestant establishment.
E. Digby Baltzell
writes that "upper-class
WASP
families educated their children at colleges such as
Harvard
,
Princeton
,
Yale
, and Vassar."
[14]
A select and elite few of Vassar's students were allowed entry into the school's secret society Delta Sigma Rho, founded in 1922.
[15]
Before becoming President of the United States,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
was a Trustee.
[16]
Approximately 2,450 students attend Vassar, and 98% live on campus.
[5]
About 60% come from public high schools, and 40% come from
private schools
(both independent and religious).
[5]
Vassar is currently 56% women and 44% men, at national average for national liberal arts colleges.
[17]
Students are taught by more than 336 faculty members, virtually all holding the doctorate degree or its equivalent.
[5]
The student-faculty ratio is 8:1, average class size, 17.
[5]
In recent freshman classes, students of color constituted 32?38% of matriculants.
[5]
International students from over 60 countries make up 8-10% of the student body.
[5]
In May 2007, Vassar returned to a
need-blind
admissions policy without regard to a student's financial status.
[18]
[19]
Vassar president
Catharine Bond Hill
departed in 2016. She was succeeded by
Elizabeth Howe Bradley
in 2017.
[20]
The college was listed as a census-designated place (Vassar College CDP) in 2019.
[21]
Presidents
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Campus
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The campus is in
Poughkeepsie Town
, adjacent to
Poughkeepsie City
.
[4]
The area around the campus appeared as a
census-designated place
(CDP) in the
2020 U.S. Census
,
[22]
with a population of 2,472.
[23]
Architecture
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Vassar's campus, also an
arboretum
,
[24]
is 1,000 acres (400 ha) and has more than 100 buildings, ranging in style from
Collegiate Gothic
to
International
, with several buildings of architectural interest. At the center of campus stands
Main Building
, one of the best examples of
Second Empire architecture
in the United States. When it was opened,
Main Building
was the largest building in the U.S. in terms of floor space. It formerly housed the entire college, including classrooms, dormitories, museum, library, and dining halls.
[13]
[25]
The building was designed by Smithsonian architect
James Renwick Jr.
and was completed in 1865. It was preceded on campus by the original
observatory
. Both buildings are
National Historic Landmarks
.
Rombout House
was purchased by the college in 1915 and added to the
National Register of Historic Places
in 1982.
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[27]
Eero Saarinen
made designs for several Vassar dormitories, but only one, the Emma Hartman Noyes House, was completed in 1958. Built for roughly 160 students, it was the first part of a circular construction that was to be continued in "Noyes II." The starkly modernist building's high cost and structural difficulties with the windows, however, led administrators to leave it at one.
[28]
The dorm's common area is famous for its futuristic design; readings and concerts are held there regularly.
[29]
The Noyes building was also the home of an all-female football team, the Noyes Nymphs, who competed against Ivy League teams in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Libraries
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Vassar is home to one of the largest undergraduate library collections in the U.S. The library collection today ? which actually encompasses eight libraries at Vassar ? contains about 1 million volumes and 7,500 serial, periodical and newspaper titles, as well as an extensive collection of microfilm and microfiche, with special collections of
Ellen Swallow Richards
,
Albert Einstein
,
Mary McCarthy
, and
Elizabeth Bishop
.
[31]
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Vassar has been a Federal Depository library for selected U.S. Government documents since 1943 and currently receives approximately 25% of the titles available through the Federal Depository Program.
[33]
The interior and exterior of the Van Ingen Art Library was renovated from June 2008 ? May 2009 in an effort to restore its original design and appearance. This was the library's first major renovation since its construction in 1937.
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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
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In November 2016, the gallery opened the Hoene Hoy Photography gallery on the second floor, named after Anne Hoene Hoy from the class of 1963.
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Capital improvements
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In 2011, Vassar embarked on a $120 million project to improve science facilities at the college, centering on the construction of a new
Bridge for Laboratory Sciences
.
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Davison
, one of Vassar's nine residence houses, was renovated during the 2008?2009 school year. During the year of renovation, Davison's residents were absorbed into the college's remaining residence houses.
[37]
This was the second dorm to be renovated as part of the school's master plan to renovate all dorms, following
Jewett
a few years earlier.
Lathrop
was scheduled to be closed and renovated during the 2010?2011 school year, but complete renovation was postponed due to the economic downturn, with a number of improvements phased in instead. Improvements were also made to Josselyn in 2011.
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Housing
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Vassar maintains housing for faculty;
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the current complex opened in 2023.
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The previous faculty housing facility, Williams, was to be demolished after 2020.
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School-age dependents living on the Vassar faculty complex, as well as other areas in the Vassar College CDP, are within the
Arlington Central School District
,
[42]
which operates
Arlington High School
.
Academics
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The most popular undergraduate majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:
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- Biology/Biological Sciences (40)
- Economics (37)
- Political Science and Government (36)
- English Language and Literature (33)
- Biochemistry (25)
- Neuroscience (25)
- Computer and Information Sciences (23)
Admissions
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Enrolled fall freshman statistics
|
2023
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|
2022
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|
2021
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|
2020
[44]
|
2019
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|
2018
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|
2017
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|
2016
[50]
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Applicants
|
12,145
|
11,412
|
10,884
|
8,663
|
8,961
|
8,312
|
7,746
|
7,284
|
7,556
|
Admits
|
2,153
|
2,129
|
2,193
|
2,126
|
2,127
|
2,043
|
1,842
|
1,964
|
1,947
|
Admit rate
|
17.7%
|
18.7%
|
20.1%
|
24.5%
|
23.7 %
|
24.6%
|
23.8%
|
27.0%
|
25.8%
|
Enrolled
|
689
|
681
|
679
|
594
|
691
|
685
|
625
|
659
|
667
|
SAT mid-50% range*
|
1450-1530
|
1420-1540
|
1420-1540
|
|
1380-1500
|
1370-1510
|
1370-1510
|
1330-1500
|
1330-1490
|
ACT mid-50% range
|
33-35
|
32-34
|
32-34
|
|
31-34
|
31-33
|
31-33
|
30-33
|
30-33
|
* SAT out of 1600
|
For the class of 2027 (enrolling fall 2023), Vassar received 12,145 applications and accepted 17.7%. The combined average SAT scores of those who opted to submit their testing data was 1489 and the ACT composite average was 33.
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The middle 50% ranges for the SAT were 1450-1530 and 33-35 for the ACT. Of the matriculants whose high schools provided rankings, 79% were in the top ten percent of their class.
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For the class of 2026 (enrolling fall 2022), Vassar received 11,412 applications and accepted 18.7%.
[53]
For the class of 2025 (enrolling fall 2021), Vassar received 10,884 applications, a 25% increase over the previous year, and accepted 2,068 (19%).
[54]
For the class of 2023 (enrolling fall 2019), Vassar received 8,961 applications and accepted 2,127 (23.7%), with 691 enrolling.
[44]
For the class of 2025 (enrolling fall 2021),the middle 50% range of
SAT
scores for enrolling freshmen was 710-760 for evidence-based reading and writing, 710-780 for math, and 1420-1540 for the composite.
[55]
The middle 50%
ACT
score range was 28-33 for math, 32-34 for English, and 32-34 for the composite.
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Students of color (including non-citizens) made up 45.5% of the incoming class;
[3]
international students were 8.8% of enrolling freshmen.
[3]
Rankings
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The 2024 edition of
U.S. News & World Report
'
s "Best Colleges" ranked Vassar as tied for the 16th best liberal arts college in the U.S. out of 211 rated. In previous years the college was ranked by
U.S. News & World Report
as high as tenth. Also in 2024,
U.S. News & World Report
ranked Vassar second for "Best Colleges for Veterans", 29th for "Best Value", 15th for "Top Performers on Social Mobility", and tied for 20th in "Best Undergraduate Teaching".
[60]
It also ranked Vassar tied for fourth among top liberal arts colleges for economic diversity as measured by low-income students receiving federal
Pell Grants
.
[61]
In its 2021 edition,
Washington Monthly
ranked Vassar 11th among 215 liberal arts colleges in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.
[62]
In its 2020 edition,
The Princeton Review
rated Vassar first for "Best Financial Aid" of all colleges and universities in the United States.
[63]
In its 2018 edition,
The Princeton Review
rated Vassar second best for financial aid and 41st best for "best value".
[64]
In 2019,
Forbes
rated Vassar 27th among liberal arts colleges and 61st overall in its America's Top Colleges ranking, which includes 650 military academies, national universities, and liberal arts colleges.
[65]
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
places Vassar 11th in its 2019 ranking of the 149 best value liberal arts colleges in the United States.
[66]
Money
magazine ranked Vassar 145th in the country out of 739 schools evaluated for its 2020 "Best Colleges for Your Money" edition.
[67]
In an article in
The Christian Science Monitor
, Vassar president emeritus
Catharine Bond Hill
argued that rankings "will always be limited in what they can tell consumers. Part of higher education's role about the rankings should be to remind students and their families that these are only one piece of information that they should take into account in deciding where to go to college. Intangibles will and should play a role in these decisions, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't also look at the tangibles".
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Post-graduation outcomes
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Over half of Vassar graduates pursue advanced study within five years of graduation, including one-fifth immediately post-graduation.
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Of the seniors who applied to medical school in 2017, 76% were accepted; to law school, 96% were accepted.
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Student life
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Traditions
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Founder's Day is an annual campus festival at Vassar College that usually takes place in late April or early May. It started as a surprise birthday party for college founder
Matthew Vassar
's seventy-fourth birthday and evolved into an annual celebration.
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Originally, Founder's Day was a spontaneous event consisting of lectures, but was soon replaced with plays, pageants, and more recreational activities. Circus and fair activities followed, with the eventual addition of the modern day music events over the course of two days. More recently themes have been added, including
Alice in Wonderland
,
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Dinosaurs,
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Vintage 1800s Vassar,
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Nickelodeon
,
Nintendo
, and
Candyland
.
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Recent artists at Founder's Day have included
The Walkmen
,
Edan
,
DJ /rupture
,
Odd Nosdam
,
Jel
,
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Toro y Moi
,
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and
Odesza
.
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- The
Night Owls
, established in the 1940s, are, as of 2017, one of the oldest extant collegiate a cappella groups in the United States, and one of nine vocal music groups at Vassar.
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Other groups include the Vastards (specializing in the
music of the 2000s
), Broadway and More (BAM; showtunes), the Accidentals (the Axies; the sole all-men's a cappella group at Vassar), Beauty and the Beats (focusing on music from Disney movies), Home Brewed (formerly Matthew's Minstrels, the college's first mixed-gender a cappella group), the Vassar Devils, Measure 4 Measure (both themeless groups), and AirCappella (an all-whistling ensemble).
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Some a cappella groups tour and compete, including the Vassar Devils, who competed in the 2015
International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella
.
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- The Philaletheis Society
, which was founded in 1865 as a literary society, is the oldest theater group on campus. It has now become a completely student run theater group.
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Others include Unbound (experimental theater), Woodshed (a troupe focused on
devised theater
), and Idlewild (an all-female ensemble).
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Britomartis, Vassar's only theater group exclusively creating devised theater, was founded in 2011.
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Further groups include the Future Waitstaff of America (for
musical theater
), Ebony Theatre Ensemble (focusing on Black theater), and two Shakespeare-specific troupes, Shakespeare Troupe and Merely Players.
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Performances happen throughout campus including in the Susan Stein Shiva Theater, an all-student-run black box theater. The college also hosts the
Powerhouse Summer Theater
workshop series.
- Happily Ever Laughter ("HEL") is the college's oldest continually active
sketch comedy
group, founded in 1993.
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Another comedy group, Big K!dz (formerly No Offense), which was started by two former members of an earlier group called Laughingstock (for which recognition by the student assembly was withdrawn in March 2000, as a result of a controversial sketch),
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was started in September 2000.
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Another sketch comedy group The Limit was started a few years later.
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Indecent Exposure, an all-women's troupe performing both sketch and
stand-up comedy
, was founded in 2004.
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Comedy Normative, which began in 2009, performs exclusively stand-up comedy.
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Vassar has a tradition of
improv comedy
groups, which continue today.
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- The Vassar Greens are Vassar's environmental group.
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- Vassar College Television (VCTV) is the college's first student-run video production company.
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Campus publications
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- The Miscellany News
has been the weekly paper of the college since 1866, making it one of the oldest college weeklies in the United States.
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It is available for free most Thursdays when school is in session
- Squirm
"is a submissions-based magazine about sex and sexuality. Squirm seeks to create a sex-positive forum on campus for the artistic, literary, and creative exploration of sex."
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The magazine, published annually since 1999, typically runs around 60 pages and is only distributed to the campus community.
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- Boilerplate Magazine
is a student-run publication that calls itself an "alternative news source... that aims to publish radical pieces and creative works which address issues through a socially conscious lens." Due to its independence from collegiate funds, Boilerplate Magazine is generally more critical of the college than other student-run outlets.
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- Unscrewed
(1 October 1976 - 1 April 1989) was a student-run consumer report on campus residential and classroom safety, local food and drug price comparison, an annual local pizza delivery survey, and long-term topics such as the college's endowment and staffing.
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Radio station
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WVKR-FM
, 91.3 FM, is the college's radio station, established in 1971.
Student government
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In March 2016, in a 15?2 vote, the Vassar Student Association (VSA) passed a resolution calling for the support of the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
movement and the boycott of Israel.
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In April 2016, the BDS resolution went to a school-wide referendum, where it was defeated 573?503.
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Athletics
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Vassar teams, known as the Brewers, compete in
Division III
of the
NCAA
, as a member of the
Liberty League
. The nickname originates from the college's founder and namesake
Matthew Vassar
, whose family ran a
brewery
in Poughkeepsie and would later amass a sizable fortune in the industry.
In 2008, the Vassar men's volleyball team made the school's first appearance in a national championship game, beating
UC Santa Cruz
3?0 in the semifinal before falling to Springfield in the championship game.
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In 2007, the Vassar cycling team hosted the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Championship in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz, New York. The competition included a 100-mile (160 km) road race over the Shawangunk Mountains in New Paltz as well as a criterium in Poughkeepsie just blocks from the school's campus.
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In a controversial move, on November 5, 2009, the athletics department leaders decided the men's and women's
rowing
team would transition over a two-year period from a varsity to a club sport as a cost-saving measure.
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In 1940, 1941 and 1942, Vassar athletes won national
intercollegiate women's tennis championships
each year in both singles (
Katharine Hubbell
) and doubles (Hubbell, Carolyn "Lonny" Myers).
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In 2018, the Vassar women's rugby team won the school's first team national championship, beating
Winona State
50?13 in the final of the USA Rugby Women's Division 2.
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Notable people
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Notable Vassar alumni include:
- Elizabeth Hazleton Haight
(1894), feminist and Classics scholar
- Anita Florence Hemmings
(1897), their first graduate of African ancestry
- Edith Clarke
(1908), the first female electrical engineer
- Ruth Starr Rose
(1910), artist
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1917), poet
- Mary Calderone
(1925), physician, public health advocate and "mother of sex education"
- Grace Hopper
(1928), computer pioneer
- Mary McCarthy
(1933), critic and novelist
- Elizabeth Bishop
(1934), poet
- Ann Cole Gannett
(1937), politician
- Carol F. Jopling
(1938), anthropologist, and chief librarian of the
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Frances Scott Fitzgerald
(1942), journalist
- Beatrix Hamburg
(1944), physician
- Virginia Seay
(1944), composer and
musicologist
- Frances Farenthold
(1946), politician and activist
- Vera Rubin
(1948), astrophysicist
- Linda Nochlin
(1951), art historian
- Lois Haibt
(1955), member of
FORTRAN
development team
- Nina Zagat
(1963), Zagat Survey co-founder
- Bernadine P. Healy
(1965), physician and
National Institutes of Health
director
- Lucinda Cisler
(1965), feminist and abortion-rights activist
- Geraldine Laybourne
(1969), Nickelodeon President and Oxygen Media founder and CEO
- Linda Fairstein
(1969), writer and prosecutor
- Rebecca Eaton
(1969),
Emmy Award
-winning executive producer of
Masterpiece
on PBS
- Meryl Streep
(1971), three-time Academy Award-winning actress
- Jane Smiley
(1971), Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer
- Michael Wolff
(1975), journalist
- Richard L. Huganir
(1975), neuroscientist and Director of the
Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute
- Chip Reid
(1977), CBS News Chief and White House Correspondent
- Jeffrey Goldstein
(1977), former World Bank CFO and Undersecretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance
- Michael Specter
(1977),
The New Yorker
magazine science writer
- Jamshed Bharucha
(1978),
Cooper Union
president
- Phil Griffin
(1979), MSNBC president
- John Carlstrom
(1981), astrophysicist and MacArthur Award Fellow
- Pamela Mars-Wright
, (1982), former board chairman of Mars Inc.
- Philip Jefferson
(1983), economist and
Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair
- Mark Burstein
(1984), President of
Lawrence University of Wisconsin
- Ada Ferrer
(1984), Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
- Sherrilyn Ifill
(1984), Seventh President and Director-Counsel of the
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Lisa Kudrow
(1985), actress
- Hope Davis
(1986), actress
- Evan Wright
(1988), journalist
- Jonathan Karl
(1990), ABC News Chief White House Correspondent
- Jeffrey Brenner
(1990), physician and MacArthur Award Fellow
- John Gatins
(1990), Academy Award-nominated Screenwriter
- Noah Baumbach
(1991), writer and director
- Jason Blum
(1991), Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated film and television producer
- Caterina Fake
(1991),
Flickr
founder
- Elisabeth Murdoch
(1992), Shine Limited CEO and Chairman
- Jon Fisher
(1994), writer
- Katherine Center
(1994), novelist
- Joe Hill
(1995), novelist
- Jessi Klein
(1997), Emmy Award-winning comedy writer-producer
- Jesse Ball
(2000), writer
- Alexandra Berzon
(2001), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and
The Wall Street Journal
reporter
- Shaka King
(2001), Academy Award-nominated film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Victoria Legrand
(2003), musician and songwriter
- Greg Russo
(2003), screenwriter of
Mortal Kombat
- Jonas Cuaron
(2005), screenwriter and director
- Sasha Velour
(2009), winner of
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9
- Lilli Cooper
(2012), Tony Award-nominated actress
- Ethan Slater
(2014), Tony Award-nominated actor
- Raph Korine
(2017), runner-up of
Big Brother 18 (UK)
- Olivia Newman
, film director and screenwriter
- Natasha Bertrand
, (2014), journalist and correspondent for
CNN
Notable attendees who did not graduate from Vassar include:
- Julia Tutwiler
, education and prison reform advocate
- Anthony Bourdain
, professional chef and television personality
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
,
First Lady of the United
States, book editor
- Katharine Graham
,
The Washington Post
publisher
- Susan Berresford
, president of the
Ford Foundation
- Anne Hathaway
, actress
- Jane Fonda
, actress
- Justin Long
, actor
- Mike D
, member of the
Beastie Boys
- Mark Ronson
, Academy Award-winning musician
- Rachael Yamagata
, musician
- Curtis Sittenfeld
, writer
Notable Vassar faculty include:
- Maria Mitchell
, pioneering female astronomer
- Grace Hopper
, computer scientist
- Monique Wittig
, philosopher
- Grace Macurdy
, classicist
- Richard Edward Wilson
, composer
- Uma Narayan
, philosopher
- Mitchell Miller
, philosopher
- Bryan W. Van Norden
, philosopher
- James Merrell
, historian
- Peter Stillman
, political scientist
- Paul Russell
, writer
- Hua Hsu
, writer
- Nancy Willard
, writer
- Frank Bergon
, writer
- Michael Joyce
, writer and pioneer of
hypertext fiction
See also
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References
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"Vassar College Common Data Set 2019-2020, Part I"
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"About Vassar"
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June 29,
2019
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"Color - Style Guidelines"
. Retrieved
August 28,
2020
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O'Connor, Acacia (October 8, 2004).
"Vassar mascot suits school's spirit"
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Honan, William H.
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"Three Decades of Men at Vassar"
.
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March 25,
2015
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"Milo P. Jewett - Vassar College Encyclopedia - Vassar College"
.
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Winum, Jessica (Fall 2000).
"Vassar's Vets: Forgotten Grads"
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Further reading
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- Bruno, Maryann; Daniels, Elizabeth A. (2001).
Vassar College
. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing.
ISBN
978-0-7385-0454-4
.
- Elet, Yvonne; Duncan, Virginia (2019). "Beatrix Farrand and campus landscape at Vassar: pedagogy and practice, 1925?29".
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes
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39
(2): 105?136.
doi
:
10.1080/14601176.2018.1556509
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S2CID
150106489
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- Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz
(1993).
Alma mater: design and experience in the women's colleges from their nineteenth-century beginnings to the 1930s
(2nd ed.). Amherst, MA: University of Massachuchusetts Press.
ISBN
0-87023-869-8
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online
- Solomon, Barbara Miller.
In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America
(Yale University Press, 1985)
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