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A group of professors has filed a class action lawsuit against Vassar College, alleging the historically women’s college knowingly failed to address a gender pay gap among its faculty.
Vassar College awards over $70 million in scholarships each year, thanks to. university-generated financials, including endowments, fundraising efforts, and other gifts.
The college didn’t comment on the case beyond providing a letter to the editor that Elizabeth H. Bradley, Vassar’s president, wrote to the student newspaper. “The faculty members who made these claims ...
Founded in 1861, Vassar was one of the Seven Sisters, a consortium of historically women’s colleges that also included Smith, Barnard, Wellesley, Radcliffe, Mount Holyoke, and Bryn Mawr.
The Trustees of Vassar College voted yesterday to reject the proposed merger of Vassar with Yale because, as one Trustee said, of "our desire to be mistress in our own house." Their decision that ...
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Despite claiming to have played “a storied role in the movement for gender equality,” Vassar College underpays its women professors, according to a federal lawsuit … ...
Vassar College is a small liberal arts school located about an hour and a half north of New York City. Although Vassar has been co-ed since 1969, the college is considered one of the Seven Sisters ...
And yet, Vassar, a liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where tuition this year is $67,000, has systematically paid its female full professors less than their male counterparts for the ...
Kiese Laymon is a black college professor. He teaches English at upstate New York's prestigious Vassar College. But his on-campus experience has taught him a lesson in race relations frustration.
However, the college stated that to bring Williams House up to "contemporary standards" would cost upwards of $17 million, said Bradley, who described it as an "historically interesting building." ...