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Elaine and Willem de Kooning: Seeing a Similar World in Dissimilar Ways
Today’s post comes from Angela Brown, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent.
Hanging side by side, Man in a Whirl by Elaine de Kooning and Black and White Rome F by Willem de Kooning seem to be very different characters in the same complex story.
Class Chemistry Matters
The Chemistry in your classroom can create a magic potion for learning or it can blow up in your face.
Magic! Misery!
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Sustainable Community Challenge: Week 1
“Change happens when people decide they love a place”
–Natalie Jeremijenko, Environmental Health Clinic
Welcome to a new series of weekly challenges, each week we will offer up a suggestion of how one can reduce their environmental impact and/or create a just and more sustainable community. These challenges will urge us as a community to investigate our relationship with Vassar, with Poughkeepsie, with the Hudson Valley, and with the planet.
Progressing from introductory to intermediate and advanced level work
Most college curricula are organized in a progression from introductory to intermediate to advanced study in a particular discipline like biology or physics or philosophy. As students make academic progress along this trajectory, what changes?
1. The depth and the complexity of the material increases
2.