Vassar College 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.
Fudge is a type of confection that is made by mixing sugar,butter and milk. It has its origins in the 19th century United States,and was popular in the women's colleges of the time. Fudge can come in a variety of flavorings depending on the region or country it was made;popular flavors include fruit,nut,chocolate and caramel. Fudge is often bought as a gift from a gift shop in tourist areas and attractions.
Frances Daly Fergusson served as president of Vassar College from 1986 to 2006. A graduate of Wellesley College,Fergusson earned her AM and PhD in Art History at Harvard University before starting her teaching career at Newton College.
William Gordon Bowen was an American academic who served as the president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,serving as its president from 1988 to 2006. From 1972 until 1988,he was the president of Princeton University. Bowen founded the digital library,JSTOR.
Euthenics is the study of improvement of human functioning and well-being by improvement of living conditions. "Improvement" is conducted by altering external factors such as education and the controllable environments,including environmentalism,education regarding employment,home economics,sanitation,and housing,as well as the prevention and removal of contagious disease and parasites.
Need-blind admission in the United States refers to a college admission policy that does not take into account an applicant's financial status when deciding whether to accept them. This approach typically results in a higher percentage of accepted students who require financial assistance and requires the institution to have a substantial endowment or other funding sources to support the policy. Institutions that participated in an antitrust exemption granted by Congress were required by law to be need-blind until September 30,2022.
Jean Webster was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster,an American author whose books include Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually,morally,and socially,but with enough humor,snappy dialogue,and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.
The Miscellany News is the student newspaper of Vassar College. Established in 1866,it is one of the oldest student newspapers in the country. The paper is distributed every Thursday during Vassar's academic year to locations across the College's campus,including dormitories,dining and athletic facilities,and communal areas. The paper accepts contributions from all members of the college community—students,administrators,faculty,staff,alumnae/i and trustees—and has a regular staff of roughly 40 to 50 student editors,reporters,photojournalists,multimedia correspondents and designers. In addition to its print publication,the staff also publishes articles on its website.
Ithaka Harbors,Inc. is a US not-for-profit,the parent company of digital library website JSTOR,the digital preservation service Portico,and the research and consulting group Ithaka S+R. Its stated mission is to "help the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways". Ithaka was founded in 2003 by Kevin M. Guthrie. Ithaka's total revenue was $105 million in 2019,most of it from JSTOR service fees.
Cushing House is a four-story dormitory on Vassar College's campus in the town of Poughkeepsie,New York. A response to freshmen overcrowding,the college's Board of Trustees hurried the Allen &Collens-designed building,named for college librarian and alumna trustee Florence M. Cushing,to construction and completion in 1927. Cushing was originally designed as eight smaller houses with euthenic principles in mind,but ended up as a single U-shaped dormitory in the Old English manor house style with Jacobean interior furnishings.
The Seeley G. Mudd Chemistry Building was a chemistry laboratory and classroom building on the campus of Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie,New York. The 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m2) postmodern building stood on the north end of a cluster of other science buildings on the site of the school's first chemistry laboratory. It was completed in 1984 at a cost of $7.2 million after the college received money from a fund bequeathed to it in the will of California cardiologist and professor Seeley G. Mudd. The structure replaced Sanders Hall of Chemistry and included elements designed to be energy efficient,notably a large wall of glass blocks that designers hoped would passively heat the building. Reviews of the structure were positive when it opened with critics praising the way its form complemented nearby older buildings. By 2015,many aspects of the building had been evaluated as being in Fair or Poor condition and the building was demolished in April 2016 as part of the Science Center project,later replaced with an open green space.
The Philaletheis Society is a student theatre group at Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie,New York,and the school's oldest student organization. Founded in December 1865,Phil began as a college literary society and its first leader was college president John Howard Raymond. Control of the organization was swiftly handed to the students and the group split into three chapters,each with a distinct focus. The group maintained its literary focus until the 1890s,by which point dramatic productions had taken over in popularity. The tradition of producing four and later three plays per year continued into the mid-twentieth century,but in 1958,the organization disbanded due to lack of interest. It was revived in 1975,first as an arm of student government and then as an independent student organization.
The Students' Building on the campus of Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie,New York,U.S.,houses the school's All Campus Dining Center as well as additional multifunctional student space on its second floor. Designed by Joseph Herenden Clark of McKim,Mead &White and built in 1913,the structure originally housed a variety of different student organizations and school functions. In 1973,it was converted into a campuswide dining hall;it underwent a second renovation in 2003 that returned multipurpose student functionalities to its upper floors.
Nancy Vincent McClelland (1877–1959) was the first female president of the first US national association of interior designers,the American Institute of Interior Decorators (A.I.D),which is now called the American Society of Interior Designers (A.S.I.D.) and was one of an early group of female interior decorators practicing during the first decades of the 20th century. McClelland was also an expert on the European/American antiques. She was a writer for interior journals such as:Collier's,Country Life,House Beautiful,and House and Garden. She was an expert on wallpaper and the Scottish furniture designer Duncan Phyfe of New York. She received several rewards for her work. Being multilingual gave her the opportunity to be internationally active and to be known beyond the US as a writer,speaker,interior decorator,wallpaper designer,and collector of antique furniture. She traveled widely and met figures of the time such as Picasso.
Deanna Bowling Marcum was an American librarian and nonprofit leader who served as president of the Council on Library and Information Resources from 1995 to 2003,Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress from 2003 to 2011,and managing director of Ithaka S+R from 2012 to 2016.
The Fonteyn Kill is a 1.5-kilometer-long (0.93 mi) urban stream flowing through Dutchess County,New York,onto the campus of Vassar College,and into the Casperkill. The stream was first on land inhabited by the native Wappinger band before being transferred to the Dutch and then the British. A mill was built along the kill by 1714 and the stream's presence influenced Matthew Vassar's decision to locate his college in the area. The artificial Vassar Lake lies midway down the Fonteyn Kill and was once used for ice skating and boating.
Lily McNair is an American academic administrator who served as the president of Tuskegee University,a historically black university in Tuskegee,Alabama,from 2018 to 2021.
Alice Dorothea Snyder was an American professor of English at Vassar College and president of the Poughkeepsie Woman Suffrage Party. During the early 20th century,Snyder led the campaign that earned New York women the right to vote. Besides her positive impact to the women's rights movement,Snyder was an academic who focused on the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. British philosopher John Henry Muirhead called Snyder a "pioneer in the sympathetic re-examination of these manuscripts".
Williams House is part of Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie,New York. It was constructed as the college's first building for housing female faculty. In 2019,the college proposed demolishing Williams House to build the parking lot for a new 50-room conference hotel,open to the public,to the objection of residents and community members.
