Vassar Scholarship

Overview by Colton Johnson, Vassar College Historian, Dean Emeritus of the College and Professor Emeritus of English. Includes video interviews of Rose Fellowship Recipients. Physical exhibition was on view in the Vassar College Thompson Library August-May 2013. Catherine Pelton Durrell...

This paper explores the town-and-gown divide between the college and local communities in order to investigate how institutions of higher education can foster mutually beneficial relationships with their neighbors. The project culminates in a guidebook of proposals for the college...

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods, they are united in the common goals of first, identifying interesting contemporaneous...

The conventional wisdom is that postwar economic growth has been unpredictable. In the 1960s few observers accurately forecast which countries would grow quickly. In this paper we show that indexes of social development constructed in the early 1960s have considerable...

Vincent and Vassar Was organized by the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library and the Millay Society Board.

Layout and typography by George Laws, and print production oversight by Daniel Lasecki at Vassar’s Office of Publications. 500 copies were...