7:00 p.m. | Attendance
7:01 | The President introduces special guest Peter Leonard, Director of Field Work. “We have a lot of stuff going on in Field Work, but internally our project is academic field work. For the last 60 years we’ve ben doing it. We excel at it and we do it better than other schools, and we do it for structural reasons,” says Leonard.
7:05 | Leonard: “This semester we have 303 students doing field work, and that’s a lot. Throughout the year, we have over 600 students. Looking at that every year, we’ll have at least 65-70 percent of students graduating having completed some kind of field work.”7:23 | Raymond asks how Leonard thinks the Poughkeepsie community has reacted to Vassar’s initiatives in Field Work. Leonard: “One of the things about Poughkeepsie that is astonishing to me is how open people are not only to us, but to each other. There’s a surprising openness here. I think there’s a curiosity about Vassar as an institution, and that works out very well for us. That’s been a thrilling part of working with Field Work.”
7:48 | Student Life moves to endorse the Sustainability proposal introduced to Council last week. Motion passes unanimously. Academics moves to endorse the SAVP proposal introduced to Council last week. Motion passes unanimously.
