Vassar College News

The book is part biography, part memoir and part social history. Based on journals and diaries that span more than 100 years, "Women of Privilege" explores how the absence of human warmth can harm a child, and how little inherited money matters in the end.

June 11, 2013 - "We are expecting our largest graduating class ever!" said Todd Miller, Executive Director at Oregon Connections Academy, the state's leading tuition-free virtual public charter school.

What: Screening of a short documentary about the 1995 gubernatorial campaign of Gatewood Galbraith by filmmaker Chris Iovenko.

An exhibition exploring the international influence of Chicago-based architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Burley Griffin and others, and an artist talk by Vermont-based woodturner Michael Mode are among the visual arts events at Northwestern University's Evanston campus this summer.

Catrina Tellez, 18, seen sitting on her front porch in Felton on Tuesday, is one of San Lorenzo Valley High s Valedictorians.

A local high school will be sending every graduating senior to college next year.

The eleventh biennial Seal Bay Festival of American of Chamber Music will run from Saturday, June 8, to Saturday, June 22, presenting concerts and workshops, primarily on the Midcoast.

Fifty-nine graduating seniors from the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School in South Hadley brought theatrical dazzle to their commencement at the Calvin Theater in Northampton.

We chatted with some of the creative teams behind New York Stage and Film's upcoming 2013 Powerhouse Season at Vassar College.

When composer Sheila Silver debuts the world premiere of "Beauty Intolerable: A Songbook" on Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church in Hudson, N.Y, she will be looking at the culmination of two years immersed in the writings of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.

American Betrayal : The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character By Diana West There is no statue of Elizabeth Bentley at her alma mater, Vassar College, nor is there any memorial to her at Columbia University, where she received her master's degree.

If you want a strong nation and a strong state, "then invest in everyone and treat everyone equally," he said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be talking about his newly released women's rights proposal at two upstate New York locations that played key roles in the development of women's rights and higher education for women.

Gail Archer, Internationally acclaimed concerrt and recording artist choral conductor and lecturer, played a memorable concert Sunday, June 2nd on the Casavant Freres pipe organ at the Community of Christ Temple here.

A five-bedroom home believed to have been the carriage house of a historic estate is on the market for $919,000, with access to a local nature preserve from the garden.

Robert A. Walton, currently the chief executive officer of the Claremont University Consortium, will be Vassar College's new vice president for finance and administration.

Arundel High School recognized its senior class at Carroll Field on Friday morning.

The through line in her work is her pained gaze telegraphing that she's alone in the world, and she wouldn't expect otherwise.

On stage at the Bowery Ballroom, Lizzy Plapinger, the enchanting frontwoman of the New York-based pop band MS MR , has the crowd eating up her every hip shake, stomp, and soulful wail.