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An Assessment of the Vassar-Poughkeepsie Town-and-Gown Divide: Strategies for a Sustainable and Collaborative Future

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2023-April-24
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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...

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An Assessment of the Vassar-Poughkeepsie Town-and-Gown Divide: Strategies for a Sustainable and Collaborative Future

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2023-April-24
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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...

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Encounters in Psychic Everywheres (Meditations on Indeterminacy and Our Grounds of Dispersion)

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2025-May-07
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I use “psychic everywheres” to articulate the explosion of our selves and entanglements in the modern era: we are hyperconnected, yet our capacities for Being (with) are limited by our terms of recognition. I understand this as a crisis of...

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