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	Vassar College Admissions
		Visit Vassar What we'd really like is for you to pay us a visit — because the Vassar campus is pretty spectacular, and because we'd like to give you the opportunity to sit in on a class or stay overnight in a residence hall.
		Finances Vassar College is in a position to provide a uniquely enriching education to qualified students regardless of their financial circumstances.
		Chat Vassar You know from your own experience that one of the best ways to find out about a place is to talk to the people there — because the people really are the place.
	admissions.vassar.edu (582 words)

	Vassar realized women's need for college study
		Matthew Vassar, in his time a leading citizen of the Poughkeepsie community, founded and endowed Vassar Female College in 1861 so that women might be able to attain the same quality and level of education that men acquired at a Yale or a Harvard.
		Matthew Vassar, who was born in 1792, was a complex man who until late in life had many civic, cultural, and economic irons in the Poughkeepsie fire, but the education of women was not one of them.
		Elizabeth A. Daniels is Vassar College historian and a professor emeritus of English at the college.
	cityguide.pojonews.com /fe/Heritage/stories/he_vassar_matthew.asp (508 words)

	Vassar College - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Vassar College - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Vassar College, private, coeducational institution in Poughkeepsie, New York.
		Blanding, Sarah Gibson (1898-1985), American educator and first woman president of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
	encarta.msn.com /Vassar_College.html (154 words)

	Summer Institute for the Gifted at Vassar College - Campus Description
		Vassar College, founded in 1861, is a highly selective, residential, coeducational liberal arts college.
		Ranked 12th among the top liberal arts colleges in the country, Vassar is renowned for pioneering achievements in education, for its long history of curricular innovation, and for the beauty of its campus.
		Vassar’s thousand acre campus has approximately 200 species of trees, beautiful gardens, scenic streams, two lakes, a natural outdoor amphitheater seating 3,000, and a 280-acre ecological preserve and field laboratory.
	www.giftedstudy.com /residential/vassar/campus.asp (199 words)

	Vassar College Athletics
		Vassar trailed 25-20 with 15 minutes to play, but a Brown breakaway for a score gave the NRU champs breathing room.
		SCHENECTADY, NY (November 10, 2007) -- Vassar's women's volleyball team avenged a loss to Union in the Liberty League Tournament by defeating the Dutchwomen in the semifinal round of the ECAC Tournament this afternoon 3-0 (30-20, 30-28, 30-24).
		Vassar will be joined by more than thirty teams from New York and New Jersey schools, and many of the top runners in the nation.
	athletics.vassar.edu (1372 words)

	FastWeb: Vassar College
		Becoming fully coeducational in 1969, Vassar today offers its students a distinctive education that features a high level of academic rigor, a strong sense of equality between the sexes, a willingness to experiment, a dedication to the values of the liberal arts and sciences, and a commitment to the development of leadership.
		Vassar is located in a residential area 3 miles from the center of Poughkeepsie, New York, a city with an area population of approximately 100,000 people.
		Vassar professors have won virtually every external prize and grant for teaching and research, and many are nationally recognized as authorities in their disciplines.
	www.fastweb.com /fastweb/colleges/view_vassar_college_9511 (1793 words)

	Xap Student Center :: campus tours :: Vassar College key facts
		Vassar College set the standard for higher education for women for more than 100 years and now sets the standard for true coeducation.
		Vassar offers a curriculum that honors the values of liberal learning as it challenges its students to lead energetic and purposeful lives.
		Located in the heart of the scenic Hudson Valley on 1,000 acres of land, the college, known for the beauty of its campus, is 75 miles north of New York City and in close proximity to the Catskills and Adirondacks.
	www.xap.com /gotocollege/campustour/undergraduate/563/Vassar_College/Vassar_College1.html (499 words)

	Vassar College Admissions
		Consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in the country, Vassar is renowned for pioneering achievements in education, for its long history of curricular innovation, and for the beauty of its campus.
		Vassar is in a residential area three miles from the city center.
		Campus 1,000 picturesque acres ranging from the manicured lawns and formal gardens of the main campus to the meadows and woodlands of the Vassar Farm.
	admissions.vassar.edu /about.html (922 words)

	Today in History: April 29
		Matthew Vassar, founder and namesake of Vassar College, was born on April 29, 1792 in Norfolk, England.
		Vassar Female College opened in September 1865 with 353 students and a faculty of thirty, twenty-two of whom were women.
		Vassar graduates include Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917), the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Helen C. Putnam (1878), the first woman gynecologist; cardiologist Bernadine Healy (1965), the first woman to head the National Institutes of Health; and Vicki Miles-LaGrange (1974), the first African-American woman sworn in as a United States Attorney.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/apr29.html (2058 words)

	Vassar College names new president - Boston.com
		Economist and college administrator Catharine B. Hill was named the 10th president of Vassar College on Tuesday.
		Hill, 51, is provost and chief financial officer of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass.
		She holds a bachelor's degree from Williams, bachelor's and master's degrees from Brasenose College at Oxford University, and a doctorate in economics from Yale.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/01/10/vassar_college_names_new_president (199 words)

	A promise of equal education fulfilled at Vassar
		Founded in 1861, Vassar Female College in Poughkeepsie opened Sept. 26, 1865, funded and endowed by Matthew Vassar so women could obtain an education that was equal to the best education available to men in America.
		A small tin box that Matthew Vassar brought to the meeting held the future of the college: securities amounting to $408,000 and a deed for 200 acres for the college site and a farm.
		The word female was removed from the name of the college in June 1866, although the school continued to admit only women until the late 1960s.
	cityguide.pojonews.com /fe/Heritage/stories/he_vassar_college.asp (575 words)

	Matthew Vassar, Founder of Vassar College, Was Born
		Matthew Vassar, Founder of Vassar College, Was Born
		Vassar College, one of the top liberal arts colleges in the United States
		Vassar Female College was chartered in January 1861.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/vassar_2 (76 words)

	JustColleges - Essays - Vassar College Sample Essay
		Finally, an undergraduate place at Vassar would allow me to experience a true liberal arts education in arts and sciences, because I think the undergraduate years should be spent on a broad amount of subject matter.
		I am currently enrolled in AP physics and AP computer science courses, and I hope to continue to pursue study in the natural sciences and in computer science (which is very important wherever you are in the world today).
		Vassar University has all the opportunities I am looking for in continuing my education, developing my identity, and contributing culturally and academically.
	www.justcolleges.com /essays/college_vassar.htm (766 words)

	Vassar College Observatory -- NRHP Travel Itinerary
		The Vassar College Observatory represents the varied accomplishments of Maria Mitchell, the astronomer, professor and women's education crusader who taught at the observatory from 1865 to 1888.
		In 1868 Matthew Vassar built this observatory exclusively for Mitchell and, in recognition of her stature within the scientific community, he equipped the observatory with the most advanced equipment of the day, including what was then the country's third largest telescope.
		However, Vassar College's grounds are open to the public, as is the new observatory.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/pwwmh/ny21.htm (266 words)

	Vassar College - Review of Admission, Undergraduate Program, and Student Life
		Vassar College is a small, private liberal arts college located in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York.
		Vassar has a fantastic student to faculty ratio of 9:1, so students get a ton of individualized attention from their professors.
		The Vassar campus is gorgeous, and is filled with large, old trees and plenty of green spaces.
	www.college-admission-essay.com /vassarcollegeadmission.html (823 words)

	vassar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vassar College invites applications for a tenure-track position in statistics at the assistant professor level starting in Fall 2007.
		Vassar College is a highly selective liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, with 2400 students.
		The College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that is strongly and actively committed to diversity within its community and especially encourages applications from women and members of historically underrepresented groups.
	www.stat.ufl.edu /vlib/jobs-2006/vassar.html (224 words)

	Vassar College: Summer Sport Camps
		Established in 1998, the Vassar Basketball Camps provide the opportunity for participants of any skill level to learn and practice the fundamentals of basketball (court awareness, dribbling, passing, rebounding, defense, footwork, and shooting techniques).
		The camp environment, designed to replicate a typical Vassar College preseason week, will give elite campers a sneak preview of what is required of them to play in college.
		The camp staff, led by Vassar College field hockey head coach Judy Finerghty, is comprised of college coaches and players and a certified athletic trainer with a camper:coach ratio of 8:1.
	www.vassar.edu /summer/sports.html (1000 words)

	AAVC: Home
		Vassar College trustee Paula Madison '74, the Executive Vice President of Diversity for NBC Universal, has been awarded the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism by the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism.
		Jim Kelly ’09 was recently awarded the 2007 Hometown Hero Award by the American Red Cross of Dutchess County for his work to combat the conditions that create poverty.
		Vassar recognizes the especially destructive nature of the wildfires in Southern California and offers a place for alumnae/i to check in with the Vassar community.
	www.aavc.vassar.edu (283 words)

	Vassar Summer Camp - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie New York NY Summer Camps for Kids – iD Tech Camps
		Voted “Best College of the Year” in the 1999 TIME Magazine/The Princeton Review's Best Colleges, Vassar College is a highly selective residential liberal arts college, consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in the country.
		Vassar was the first of the Seven Sisters to go co-ed in 1946 when 40 World War II veterans arrived to become the first male students.
		The campus facilities at Vassar College allow for a variety of activities such as movie and video gaming nights in the residence hall lounges, foosball and pool tables, ultimate frisbee on expansive grassy fields or a chess tournament in the shade.
	www.internaldrive.com /new-york/vassar.asp?loc=VASSAR (336 words)

	American Rhetoric: Tom Hanks - Commencement Address at Vassar College
		As college graduates, you now live in a brand new world, with new versions of political upheaval, global pandemic, world war and religious polarization, the likes of which have rarely visited our planet all at once -- and thank God for that.
		Life outside of college is just like life in it: one nutty thing after another, some of them horrible, but all interspersed with enough beauty and goodness to keep you going.
		Here at Vassar, whatever your discipline, whatever your passion, you have already experienced the exhausting reality that there is always something going on and there is always something to do.
	www.americanrhetoric.com /speeches/tomhanksvassar.htm (1253 words)

	Vassar College — Infoplease.com
		The Seven Sisters - The Seven Sisters The “seven sisters” is a group of historically women's colleges...
		Vassar College (N.Y.) has tapped an academic leader from Williams College (Mass.) to be its next president.(APPOINTED AND PROMOTED)...
		Frances Fergusson apparently believes 20 years at the helm of Vassar College (N.Y.) is long enough to be in charge.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0850538.html (293 words)

	Vassar College - College Guide Written For Students By Students
		Vassar is not necessarily “real life,” but it is a place that affords the opportunity for students to develop close relationships with their professors and each other, to try things they have never done before, and to create a large impact on a small community.
		College Prowler is here to help you decide if Vassar is right for you.
		Read our Vassar College insider guide and discover what it feels like to be on campus for 4 years.
	www.collegeprowler.com /guide.asp/1427402094/index.html (453 words)

	Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Unedited Articles Infuriate Vassar Students
		The necessity for houses that seek to provide comfort for the marginalized on college campuses has to do with issues at schools that don’t necessarily allow all students to be treated fairly there.
		You should know, if you were on the Vassar campus at all, that we have no segregated housing (not since voluntarily-segregated fl housing ended in the 1970’s) on campus, and that no one could ever live in the ALANA center or in Blegen House.
		In closing — yes, Vassar has a speech code, but as long as they enforce it arbitrarily and not uniformly, (The Misc actually printed the N-word I referred to above, and I don’t mean Nazi) they open themselves up to legal action against their ill-considered censorship of the only conservative voice on campus.
	www.insidehighered.com /news/2005/09/26/vassar (6589 words)

	Charity Navigator Rating - Vassar College
		Consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in the country, Vassar is renowned for pioneering achievements in education, for its long history of curricular innovation, and for the beauty of its campus.
		Vassar employs more than 260 faculty members, and enrolls 2,400 students, including international students from over 45 countries.
		The unique traditions upon which the college was founded continue to be upheld today: a determination to excel, a willingness to experiment, a dedication to the values of the liberal arts and sciences, a commitment to the advancement of equality between the sexes, and the development of leadership.
	www.charitynavigator.org /index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/4690.htm (199 words)

	Vassar Alum Provides "Marine's-Eye View" of Iraq War through Photo Exhibit
		Busch documented his first tour in Iraq in 2003 in the photo exhibit "The Art in War," which in 2005 was also shown both by Vassar and the University of Maryland University College.
		Busch was an active member of both the Vassar and Poughkeepsie communities during his studies at the college.
		Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.
	www.collegenews.org /x6078.xml (628 words)

	Helping NYC Students Step Toward College Through FES Partnerships (Site not responding. Last check: )
		(PRWEB) February 7, 2007 -- A partnership between Vassar College and Collegiate Institute of Math and Science in the Bronx is helping students, most of whom will be the first in their families to go to college, learn how to prepare for, access, and succeed in college.
		Vassar and CIMS were brought together by the Foundation for Excellent Schools (FES), an organization dedicated to "becoming the pre-eminent organization in this country at creating and strengthening school-college partnerships that help underserved students access and succeed in college," according to FES president Rick Dalton.
		Along with early experience of college campuses, underserved students need exposure to what the college application process and college life are like.
	prweb.com /releases/2007/2/prweb503102.htm (1054 words)

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