• 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...
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  • College, Smith College, and Wellesley College are still women's colleges. Vassar College became coeducational in 1969, and Radcliffe College was absorbed...
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    Matthew Vassar (April 29, 1792 – June 23, 1868) was an English-born American brewer, merchant and philanthropist. He founded Vassar College, a women’s...
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  • Vassar may refer to: Vassar Brothers Medical Center Vassar College 1312 Vassar, an asteroid John Ellison Vassar (1813–1878), American lay preacher and...
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    against humanity. Every year the International Studies (IS) program at Vassar College has a course that sends students on a trip abroad. In 2013, it was decided...
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  • financial support to create a program of euthenics at Vassar College. Curriculum planning, suggested by Vassar president Henry Noble MacCracken in 1922, began...
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    women's colleges, especially Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In a letter written by Emelyn Battersby Hartridge, a student at Vassar, she recounts...
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    Anne Hathaway (category Vassar College alumni)
    semesters studying as an English major and political science minor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, before transferring to New York University's...
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    2018. Leslie Chihuly serves on the boards of the Seattle Symphony, Vassar College and the Pilchuck Glass School. In 2022, President Joe Biden announced...
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    Caterina Fake (category Vassar College alumni)
    Rosemary Hall in 1986 and Vassar College in 1991 with a degree in English, after transferring from Smith College in 1989. Vassar College had an intranet that...
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  • This is a partial list of notable faculty and alumni of Vassar College. Selected Vassar alumni (chronologically) Jane Kelley Adams, class of 1875 — educator...
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    Kerri Green (category Vassar College alumni)
    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...
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    Jane Fonda (category Vassar College alumni)
    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...
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    The Vassar College Observatory is an astronomical observatory of the private Vassar College, located near the eastern edge of the Poughkeepsie, New York...
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    Anthony Bourdain (category Vassar College alumni)
    independent coeducational college-preparatory day school in Englewood, New Jersey—in 1973, then enrolled at Vassar College but dropped out after two years...
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  • the first member of the Seven Sisters (not counting the coeducational Vassar College) to introduce an admissions policy that was inclusive of transgender...
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  • filming on November 20, 2020, in Los Angeles. Filming also took place at Vassar College in mid-2021. On June 19, 2021, recurring cast member Sherri Shepherd...
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    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (category Vassar College alumni)
    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...
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    for other women's colleges in the U.S., and both Vassar College and Wellesley College were patterned after Mount Holyoke. Vassar College was the first of...
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    Meryl Streep (category Vassar College alumni)
    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...
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    University Barnard College Union College Rutgers University Vassar College Bryn Mawr College Women's College of Baltimore (now Goucher College) Princeton University...
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    Jason Blum (category Vassar College alumni)
    Sundance Institute, Vassar College, and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. In 2022, Blum donated $10 million to Vassar College, the largest gift ever...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Jean Tatlock (category Vassar College alumni)
    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...
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    breweries along the Hudson River, including some owned by Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College. Families built palatial weekend homes nearby, such as the...
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  • Martha Firestone Ford (category Vassar College alumni)
    Our Lady of the Elms High School in Akron in 1943. She graduated from Vassar College in 1946. On March 9, 2014, Martha's husband William Clay Ford Sr. died...
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  • writer and producer. Donahoe earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego...
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    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 (officially...
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  • Grace Gummer (category Vassar College alumni)
    school. Gummer attended Vassar College, her mother's alma mater, and received a degree in art history and Italian in 2008. At Vassar, she was involved in...
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