Vassar Trustees and Board of Trustees Actions

Topics included: [Board Actions] [Individual Trustees]

Board Actions

Chronologically

• List of Original Trustees
• First Meeting of Trustees
• Alumnae Representation
• Alumnae Trustees
• Trustees Recognize 25th Anniversary
• Trustees Limit Enrollment
• Trustees Accept Pension Plan for Faculty
• Trustees Assume Some Presidential Duties After Taylor's Retirement
• Governance of Vassar College Adopted by Trustees
• Vote to Bring Off-Campus Students Back On-Campus
• Trustees Plan Arboretum
• Trustees Approve Plan for Investment in Stock
• Trustees Approve Plan to Invite Refugee Scholars to College
• Trustees Approve Three-Year Plan
• Trustees Reject of the Gift from Alumnae.
• Trustees Approve Building of Watson Faculty Housing.
• Trustees Approve Construction of Olmstead, and Renovations of Avery and the Laundry Building.
• Trustees Announce the Vassar-Yale Study.
• Vassar-Yale Joint Trustee-Fellow Committee Approve Guidelines for Vassar-Yale Study.
• Trustees Approve a Study of Alternatives to the Yale-Vassar Coordination.
• Trustees Receive Preliminary Reports on Vassar-Yale Study.
• Trustees Decide Against the Proposed Merger with Yale.
• Trustees Adopt Policy of Co-education.
• Trustees Approved the Acceptance of Male Transfer Students.
• Trustees Petition Regents for Right to Grant Degrees to Men.
• Trustees Approve a $50 Million Capital Campaign.

Individual Trustees

Alphabetically

• Augustus L. Allen
• Rufus Babcock
• Dorm Given in Honor of Florence M. Cushing, First Female Trustee
• Trustees Elect First Woman Chair, Helen Kenyon 1905
• Helen Kenyon Lecture Fund Established
• Dorm Named After Dr. Lathrop
• Russell E. Leffingwell Gives Outdoor Classroom
• E. L. Magoon
• Edgar L. Marsten Presents Concert Series
• Samuel F. B. Morse
• Lecture About Samuel F.B. Morse.
• George Henry Nettleton Becomes Acting President
• Pratt Gives Outdoor Theatre
• Francis Fitz Randolph Gives Gift to Library
• Rev. John H. Raymond
• Rockefeller Gives Skating-Rink
• Rockefeller Gives Funds for Recitation Hall
• Rockefeller Gives Dorm in Memory of Mother
• Memorial for President Roosevelt Held
• Dr. Henry M. Sanders Gives Sanders Laboratory of Chemistry
• Henry M. Sanders Gives Laboratory of Physics
• Cyrus Swan
• Frederick Ferris Thompson Gives Annual College Trips
• Frederick Ferris Thompson Establishes Loan Program
• Frederick Ferris Thompson Chair of Political Science Established
• Thompson Gives Annex to Main Building
• Vassar's Nephews Give Laboratory Building
• John Guy Vassar Bequests
• John Guy Vassar Funds President's House
• Matthew Vassar Jr. Established Endowed Chairs
• John Wilkie Dedicates Watson Apartments.

Last updated February 6, 1999, by Jeremy R. Linden, '00.