Check out why Vassar College received an F grade in our Report Card below.
Vassar College is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York. The university has over 165 student organizations to join. In Poughkeepsie &#8212; a town located on the Hudson River &#8212; students can bike or walk through the Walkway over the Hudson, attend operatic performances at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House, and visit the college&#8217;s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.
Vassar College has over 50 degree programs for students to choose from. Notable former students include actress Anne Hathaway, former First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis, and television personality Anthony Bourdain.

Vassar College receives an “F” grade by <a href="https://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/schools/2710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Will They Learn?</a> which takes into account the university’s educational prowess. Factors include composition, literature, foreign language, U.S. government or history, economics, mathematics, and natural science.
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What Will They Learn? Academic Score

Vassar College receives an “A+” grade for the Average Salary of Graduates Mid-Career. As of 2021, alumni with 10+ years of experience after graduating from Vassar College with a bachelor’s degree make $137,400 on average according to <a href="https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Payscale</a>.
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Average Salary of Graduates Mid-Career

Vassar College receives a “B-” grade for the Average Debt of Graduates (Federal and Private). In 2020, graduates accumulated $23,327 of debt on average from federal and/or private sources according to <a href="https://ticas.org/interactive-map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Institute for College Access &amp; Success</a>.
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Average Debt of Graduates (Federal and Private)

Vassar College receives a &#8220;B&#8221; grade for Mandated Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Training for Staff. Vassar College&#8217;s Annual Ethics &amp; Compliance Training <a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://offices.vassar.edu/human-resources/2023/11/02/you-have-been-assigned-annual-ethics-compliance-training/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requires</a> all employees to complete &#8220;Sexual Harassment Prevention/Title IX Training.&#8221; Some employees are also required to complete &#8220;Information Security Awareness Training&#8221; and &#8220;Protection of Minors.&#8221; The Learning, Teaching, and Research Center offers Inclusive Pedagogy <a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://offices.vassar.edu/ltrc/inclusive-pedagogy/inclusive-pedagogy-workshops/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">workshops</a> as part of its faculty development.
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Mandated Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Training for Staff

Vassar College receives an “F” grade for having a Bias Response Team. Bias Reporting Systems and Response Teams are systems or teams of faculty, staff, and sometimes law enforcement.
According to <a href="https://speechfirst.org/bias-reporting-systems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpeechFirst</a>, students are “encouraged to report ‘bias incidents’ to these boards (or teams) in the name of inclusion and tolerance, but it’s often unclear what the school considers ‘bias’ in the first place. Overly broad or vague definitions of bias put all kinds of speech at risk of being reported – even unpopular speech which is protected by the First Amendment.”
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Bias Reporting System or Bias Response Team

Vassar College receives an “F” grade for the Ratio of Right-Leaning Clubs to Left-Leaning Clubs. Out of a list of 20 clubs (10 from each side), <a href="https://vsa.vassar.edu/orgs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the university</a> has zero right-leaning clubs compared to two left-leaning clubs. Students for Justice in Palestine and Vassar Voices for Planned Parenthood are the two left-leaning clubs.
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Ratio of Right-Leaning Clubs to Left-Leaning Clubs

Vassar College receives a “C” grade due to having no active Turning Point USA chapter. The university has not denied a Turning Point USA chapter on campus.
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Denied Turning Point USA Chapter

Vassar College receives an &#8220;A&#8221; grade for Required Equity, Diversity, or Inclusion Courses for Students. The college has very few general education requirements. Students are <a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://catalogue.vassar.edu/content.php?catoid=52&amp;navoid=10665" target="_blank" rel="noopener">required</a> to complete a First-Year Writing Seminar requirement, the Quantitative Course requirement, and the foreign language proficiency requirement.
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Required Equity, Diversity, or Inclusion Courses for Students

Vassar College receives an “A” grade for Segregated Dormitories, Graduations, and Classes. The university does not appear to have any segregated dormitories, graduation ceremonies, or classes by race or sexual orientation.
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Segregated Dormitories, Graduations, and Classes

Vassar College receives a &#8220;B&#8221; grade for Protests and Canceling Speakers. In October 2023, Students for Justice in Palestine <a href="https://miscellanynews.org/2023/11/01/news/vassar-sjp-stages-walkout/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized</a> a walk-out protest against Israel’s response to the Hamas terrorist attack. Over 150 students participated in the demonstration demanding that the college divest from weapons manufacturers arming Israel, boycott study abroad programs, and remove the funding blockade to Gaza.
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Protests and Canceling Speakers

Vassar College receives an “F” grade for Boycotting, Divesting, and Sanctioning Israel (BDS). According to the <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/campus-divestment-resolutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish Virtual Library</a>, since the start of the 2013-14 school year, the university’s student body has introduced one piece of legislation that would require the university to divest from any Israeli company and from companies that do business with Israel. The piece of legislation passed.
Introducing this type of legislation often puts a target on Jewish and pro-Israel students and communities, fostering an environment vulnerable to antisemitism.
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Boycotting, Divesting, and Sanctioning Israel

Vassar College receives an “F” grade for Required Western Civilization Courses for Students. <a href="https://catalogue.vassar.edu/content.php?catoid=52&amp;navoid=10665#Requirements_for_the_Degree_of_Bachelor_of_Arts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The university</a> does not require any course or category of courses designed to teach students about the history of the United States and western civilization as a whole.
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Required Western Civilization Courses for Students

Check out why Vassar College received an F grade in our Report Card below.

Vassar College is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York. The university has over 165 student organizations to join. In Poughkeepsie -- a town located on the Hudson River -- students can bike or walk through the Walkway over the Hudson, attend operatic performances at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House, and visit the college's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.

Vassar College has over 50 degree programs for students to choose from. Notable former students include actress Anne Hathaway, former First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis, and television personality Anthony Bourdain.

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Jasmine Syedullah is an <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/jsyedullah#profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Vassar College</a>. Her research interests include religious studies, feminist studies, and philosophy. In 2021, she gave a series of lectures on theories of racism and white supremacy in America, <a href="https://youtu.be/P4lL5he1s7s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including a talk at Naropa University.</a>
Naropa University is private Buddhist University that offers degrees in subjects such as Yoga Studies, Religious Studies, and Art Therapy — Syedullah was introduced as a “black feminist, political theorist of abolition.” The event title was “Surviving White Supremacy: Towards a Radical Dharma of Staying Fugitive.”
Sharing thoughts from her book “Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation,” she said:
“I studied some history [of Buddhist studies] but was mostly taken by the dharma itself, the philosophy [and] how directly did Buddhist philosophies…directly addressed the implicit paradox of the western colonial project. This paradox being on one had, we have a freedom rooted in personal sovereignty, autonomy, and will…”
She continued:
“I’ll add, this is a freedom in theory for most and [a] practice for a precious gender class and race pillaging, not privileging, few. And on the other, we have a freedom rooted in interdependence, decentered egoism, and impermanence.”
In June 2021, Syedullah signed a “<a href="https://miscellanynews.org/2021/05/25/opinions/letter-to-the-editor-vassar-community-members-statement-of-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Letter to the Editor: Vassar Community Members’ Statement of Solidarity with the Palestinian People</a>” that was published by The Miscellany News. The statement says,
“As members of the Vassar Community and people of conscience, we denounce the ongoing attacks on Palestinians by the Israeli armed forces…We affirm that the Palestinian struggled in an indigenous resistance movement confronting settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing, and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”
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Jasmine Syedullah is an <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/jsyedullah#profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Vassar College</a>. Her research interests include religious studies, feminist studies, and philosophy. In 2021, she gave a series of lectures on theories of racism and white supremacy in America, <a href="https://youtu.be/P4lL5he1s7s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including a talk at Naropa University.</a>

Naropa University is private Buddhist University that offers degrees in subjects such as Yoga Studies, Religious Studies, and Art Therapy — Syedullah was introduced as a “black feminist, political theorist of abolition.” The event title was “Surviving White Supremacy: Towards a Radical Dharma of Staying Fugitive.”

Sharing thoughts from her book “Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation,” she said:

“I studied some history [of Buddhist studies] but was mostly taken by the dharma itself, the philosophy [and] how directly did Buddhist philosophies…directly addressed the implicit paradox of the western colonial project. This paradox being on one had, we have a freedom rooted in personal sovereignty, autonomy, and will…”

She continued:

“I’ll add, this is a freedom in theory for most and [a] practice for a precious gender class and race pillaging, not privileging, few. And on the other, we have a freedom rooted in interdependence, decentered egoism, and impermanence.”

In June 2021, Syedullah signed a “<a href="https://miscellanynews.org/2021/05/25/opinions/letter-to-the-editor-vassar-community-members-statement-of-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Letter to the Editor: Vassar Community Members’ Statement of Solidarity with the Palestinian People</a>” that was published by The Miscellany News. The statement says,

“As members of the Vassar Community and people of conscience, we denounce the ongoing attacks on Palestinians by the Israeli armed forces…We affirm that the Palestinian struggled in an indigenous resistance movement confronting settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing, and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

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