Vassar Education Collaboration - VEC

11/20/2020

Join Exploring College on December 4th from 3:30pm-5:00pm on Zoom! We'll talk about finding your people after high school, how to live with a roommate, whether or not college is right for you, and more! ALL ATTENDEES WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO WIN PRIZES, including JBL wireless headphones (pictured below). Email [email protected] to register today!

11/19/2020

VELLOP Holds it annual Gift Drive for young students at the Early Learning Center. Donations welcomed.

09/19/2020

Club VAST (Vassar After School Tutoring) is up and running! We are offering Homework Help/Mentor Hour on Tuesdays from 3-4pm and an Activity Hour from 3-4pm on Thursdays.

Fill out an application at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe45QhVw6ME7Xw6NEuQKwj79SqnATdgcVd4ajq6Boa6huJYUg/viewform

09/19/2020

If you're interested in learning more about Exploring College and how we've moved virtual for Fall 2020, join one of our interest meetings on September 24th! We will give you a rundown on what our program offers and answer any of your questions. Fill out the Google form below and we will send you the official Zoom link!

https://forms.gle/WMvAH8w7McucVHY58

08/21/2020

VCUEI Programming will be virtual this Fall as Vassar students are committed to staying on campus and the Poughkeepsie Schools are on-line. But Exploring College, Vassar After School Tutoring, and Vassar English Language Learners Program will innovate and continue. If you are a Vassar student and would like to participate we can use you.

08/10/2020

We're happy to announce that VELLOP (our English Language Learners Outreach Program) is currently accepting applications to tutor this Fall!

If you're a Vassar student interested in tutoring and mentoring K-12 ENL (English as a New Language) students in the Poughkeepsie City School District, don't hesitate to apply.

Feel free to spread the link to our application: https://tinyurl.com/VellopSummerSurvey

Please direct any and all inquiries to our VELLOP Coordinator at [email protected]

Thank you!

08/05/2020

Check out this amazing article on our two summer programs: Getting Ready for High School and the Exploring College Summer Intensive! We are so proud of our students and thankful for our educators.

More than 30 Poughkeepsie High School students took part in Exploring College and Getting Ready for High School, two programs run by the Vassar College Urban Education Initiative to help prepare community youth for their next academic challenges.

07/31/2020

We ended the two-week program Getting Ready for High School last Friday. Students explored Poughkeepsie. One said at the end "Poughkeepsie is way cooler than I thought after 12 years of living here. I'm now realizing that." That was our hope.

07/24/2020

In our Exploring College Summer Intensive, students identified plants in the local area using the iNaturalist phone application and created journal entries. Here are two beautiful examples of their work!

07/22/2020

We are in the middle of a 2-week program called Getting Ready for High School. 16 upcoming 9th graders at PHS are participating. They read, discuss, learn and also chose activities around Poughkeepsie to undertake. One is going to the Walkway over the Hudson. There's lots to do in Poughkeepsie.

07/18/2020

It has been a very busy two weeks for Exploring College! Yesterday morning our students gave fantastic final presentations on their digital narratives and yesterday afternoon we held a virtual closing ceremony to celebrate their successes! During the program, students received a comprehensive introduction to environmental science and applied this knowledge by writing letters to local policy makers, outlining policy ideas for sustainability within their own communities. We are constantly inspired and impressed by the thoughtful ideas our students bring into the world and we are so honored to work with them. We cannot wait to see where they go next!

07/07/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/health/school-learning-online-education.html
We're learning the online courses are more effective if the student has a coach. So we are exploring how the VCUEI mentors can do that in the Fall if schools are not fully back in person.

As virtual classrooms and online learning proliferate, researchers are working to quantify what works and what doesn’t.