Vassar College (/ˈvæsər/ VASS-ər) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was...

College, Smith College, and Wellesley College are still women's colleges. Vassar College became coeducational in 1969 and Radcliffe College was absorbed...

Matthew Vassar (April 29, 1792 – June 23, 1868) was an English-born American brewer, merchant, and philanthropist. He founded Vassar College, a women’s...

Vassar may refer to: Vassar Brothers Medical Center Vassar College 1312 Vassar, an asteroid John Ellison Vassar (1813–1878), American lay preacher and...

This is a partial list of notable alumni and faculty of Vassar College. Selected Vassar alumni (chronologically) Jane Kelley Adams, class of 1875 — educator...

financial support to create a program of euthenics at Vassar College. Curriculum planning, suggested by Vassar president Henry Noble MacCracken in 1922, began...

The Vassar College Observatory is an astronomical observatory of the private Vassar College, located near the eastern edge of the Poughkeepsie, New York...

women's colleges, especially Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In a letter written by Emelyn Battersby Hartridge, a student at Vassar, she recounts...

independent coeducational college-preparatory day school in Englewood, New Jersey—in 1973, then enrolled at Vassar College but dropped out after two years...

the first member of the Seven Sisters (not counting the coeducational Vassar College) to introduce an admissions policy that was inclusive of transgender...

2018. Leslie Chihuly serves on the boards of the Seattle Symphony, Vassar College and the Pilchuck Glass School. In 2022, President Joe Biden announced...

Vassar College has been featured in many books, movies, and television shows. This is a partial list of references and fictional alumni. Martin Geldhart...

Invaders and System Shock, which he will also direct. Russo attended Vassar College after graduating high school in Cherry Hill. Russo couldn’t find work...

astronomer and a professor of astronomy after accepting a position at Vassar College in 1865. She was also the first woman elected Fellow of the American...

semesters studying as an English major and political science minor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, before transferring to New York University's...

The Main Building of Vassar College is the oldest surviving building on its campus in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the center of academic life. It was built...

Sundance Institute, Vassar College, and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. In 2022, Blum donated $10 million to Vassar College, the largest gift ever...

Lake, New Jersey, and graduated from Pascack Hills High School and Vassar College. She worked at a Roy Rogers restaurant and made commercials for Jordache...

philologist and an expert on Geoffrey Chaucer, Tatlock was a graduate of Vassar College and the Stanford Medical School, where she studied to become a psychiatrist...

sister, Meera. She graduated from Vassar College in 1984, with a major in Chinese Language and Literature at the college, originally planning to be a translator...

until acting in the play Miss Julie at Vassar College in 1969, in which she gained attention across the campus. Vassar drama professor Clinton J. Atkinson...

Greenwich, Connecticut; the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York; and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Before her acting career, she was a model...

breweries along the Hudson River, including some owned by Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College. Families built palatial weekend homes nearby, such as the...

States made her very popular globally. After studying history and art at Vassar College and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in French literature from George...

Eazy-E and actress Robin Wright. She received her BA in biology from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, intending to become an expert on headaches...

school. Wright studied at Johns Hopkins University and at Vassar College; he graduated from Vassar with a degree in medieval history. His first writing job...

old. She graduated from Hillcrest High School. Ifill has a B.A. from Vassar College and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. She and the late...

Gyllenhaal then served as a professor at Vassar College where she was awarded tenure. While at the college, Man Gyllenhaal directed a short film as a...

Lisa Zane (born April 5, 1961) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. Zane was born in Chicago, the daughter of Thalia and William George Zane...

Ray Story. The first president of the college was Marion Coats from 1924 to 1929. She was a friend of Vassar College president Henry MacCracken and William...