It may be imitative of the Harvard anthem "Fair Harvard", which is also sung to the tune of "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms". The original campus buildings (including the Library, the Old Dorm Block, and what is now the primary administration building, Eliot Hall) are brick Tudor Gothic buildings in a style similar to Ivy League campuses. He is the originator of the self-perception theory of attitude formation and change. It features music, dance, film, creative writing, and the visual arts. "[62] In 2019, a team of statistics students recreated the formula used by U.S. News and were able to identify and quantify the penalty imposed on Reed. On February 15, 2021, the Aubrey R. Watzek Sports Center, collapsed during Winter Storm Uri. Mike Davis is an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. She also serves as Key Scientist at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, California. Jonathan Grudin is a principal design researcher at Microsoft and affiliate professor at the University of Washington Information School working in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Like Murphy, Billy Crystal is an alumnus of both SNL and Nassau Community College. Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American poet from Los Angeles. Jefferson resides in Portland, Oregon. [109], In Spring 2007, the college broke ground on the construction of a new quadrangle called the Grove, with four new Leed certified residence halls (Aspen, Sequoia, Sitka, Bidwell). What are the most notable alumni events? Shannon Lee Dawdy is an American anthropologist, historian, and archaeologist. The official mascot of Reed is the griffin. In mythology, the griffin often pulled the chariot of the sun; in canto 32 of Dante's Commedia the griffin is associated with the Tree of Knowledge. He served as chairman of the department of economics from 1994 to 1997. One is drugs. In addition to famous Reed College graduates, it also includes some famous Reedies who did not graduate. [110], The Reed College Canyon, a natural area and national wildlife preserve, bisects the campus, separating the academic buildings from many of the residence halls (the so-called cross-canyon halls). His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Running the gamut, we look at the 30 most influential universities of the past 100 years. Forti first apprenticed with Anna Halprin in the 1950s and has since worked alongside artists and composers Nam June Paik, Steve Paxton, La Monte Young, Trisha Brown, Charlemagne Palestine, Peter Van Riper, Dan Graham, Yoshi Wada, Robert Morris and others. Reed College (25) Liberty University (25) Colgate University (25) Binghamton University (24) Art Center College Of Design (24) Madonna called herself a "famed high-school dropout" in a 1983 "American Bandstand" interview with Dick Clark, but she's actually a college dropout: According to the University of Michigan, the. [110] Completed in Fall 2019, Trillium houses an additional 180 students, boosting Reed's housing capacity to nearly 80% of the student body, up from 68%. Follow Department About this Department Alumni Programs https://reed.edu/alumni/ Daniel Kottke is an American businessman known for being a college friend of Steve Jobs and one of the first employees of Apple Inc. Gary Snyder is an American man of letters. Robert Klein Richard Louis Hanna was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 2011 to 2017. Christopher Michael Langan is an American horse rancher and autodidact who has been reported to score very highly on IQ tests. Michael S. Teitelbaum is a demographer and the former Vice President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City. Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. He is an alumnus of Reed College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, Interdisciplinary and dual-degree programs, 2021 collapse of the Aubrey R. Watzek Sports Center, For a list with actual percentages, see "Doctorates Awarded" at, One NCAA sports team at Reed has been the Reed College Ski Team, which as early as 1937, and as late as 1988, competed with the. One is brains. The Reed College campus was established on a tract of land in southeast Portland known in 1910 as Crystal Springs Farm, a part of the Ladd Estate, formed in the 1870s from original land claims. Daryl J. Bem is a social psychologist and professor emeritus at Cornell University. [120] In pursuit of its mission to support the curriculum of the art, art history, and humanities programs at Reed, the gallery produces three or four exhibitions each year, along with lectures, colloquia, and artist visits. California Institute of the Arts - Los Angeles County, California, USA. (Co-Founder, Former Chairman and CEO of 'Apple'), (Disc jockey, Musicologist, Radio personality), (Italian Fashion Designer Known for His Kaleidoscopic Colors and Geometric Prints), (Art collector, Programmer, Computer scientist), (One of the First Sociolinguists to Pioneer the Connection Between Speech and Social Relations), (American Pharmacologist Who Pioneered the Chemotherapy Trials Using Nitrogen Mustard). According to sociologist Burton Clark, Reed is one of the most unusual institutions of higher learning in the United States,[18] featuring a traditional liberal arts and natural sciences curriculum. His instrumental sound is characterized by a mix of Latin and North American guitar styles. Yoram Keyes Bauman is an American economist and stand-up comedian. Famous alumni include director Kathyrn Bigelow, Casey Affleck, Timothe Chalamet (who attended for one year), James Franco, Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal (Jake did not graduate), Jenny Slate,. His wide-ranging contributions to the field of experimental astrophysics of the Sun include: early work on the MSSTA, a sounding rocket that prototyped modern normal-incidence EUV optics such as are used on the Solar Dynamics Observatory; his discovery of sound waves in the solar corona in 1998; standardization of computer vision techniques that are used to measure and track magnetic fields on the solar surface; co-invention with colleague Charles Kankelborg of the fluxon semi-Lagrangian approach to numerical MHD modeling; and pioneering work on quantitative remote sensing of the solar wind via Thomson scattered light. He retired from Northwest Airlines in 1999 to return to academic life. "[95], Reed has a reputation for being politically left-of-center. The following day the senate makes decisions about each budget in a process called Funding Hell. Richard Jeffrey Danzig is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton. Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman, University of Chicago Press, 1994, p. 86, Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World, Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy, irrational base discrete weighted transform, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Katherine Verdery Appointed to the Graduate Center", "Sculptor of the Surreal, Whacker of Flowerpots", "Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche's friends: 'He's just the best person', "Paul Bragdon, longest serving Reed College president and fixture of Oregon higher ed, dies at 94", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Reed_College_people&oldid=1144858760, Kip Berman, 2002 songwriter and vocalist for, This page was last edited on 15 March 2023, at 23:45. Her husband, the anthropologist Robert A. Fernea, was a large influence in her life. Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR). There are two major alumni events at Reed you won't want to miss. The list includes people like Steve Jobs, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gary Snyder, Ry Cooder & Harry Harlow. Reed has no fraternities or sororities and few NCAA sports teams[32] although physical education classes (which range from kayaking to juggling to capoeira) are required for graduation. Lewis Webster Jones was an economist, and the President of Bennington College from 1941-1947, the University of Arkansas from 1947 to 1951 and of Rutgers University from 1951 to 1958. The gallery is currently under the directorship of Stephanie Snyder,[121] who succeeded founding director Susan Fillin-Yeh in 2004. She teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is also the Coordinator of Digital Studies and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures. He also served on the Oregon Court of Appeals, was a deputy district attorney for Multnomah County, Oregon, and worked for the United States Department of Justice. Max Gordon was a jazz promoter and founder of the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City. [75] In 202223 over half of students received financial aid from the college. Solomon's weekly column, "Media Beat", was in national syndication from 1992 to 2009. The Paradox ("Est. She is an associate professor of philosophy and religion at Montana State University Billings, and is the author or editor of nine books. Eleanor Rosch is an American psychologist. In addition to famous Reed College graduates, it also includes some famous Reedies who did not graduate. It attracted great architectural interest during its lifetime". An unofficial motto of Reed is "Communism, Atheism, Free Love", and can be found in the Reed College Bookstore on sweaters, T-shirts, etc. She was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Selena Cross in the 1957 film Peyton Place. It requires freshmen to take Humanities 110, an intensive introduction to multidisciplinary inquiry, covering ancient Greece and Rome, the Hebrew Bible and ancient Jewish history, and as of 2019, Ancient Mesoamerica and the Harlem Renaissance. [63], Money magazine ranked Reed 512th in the U.S. out of 623 schools evaluated for its 2022 "Best Colleges for Your Money" edition. The fee underwrites publication of the student newspaper and extracurricular activities, and partially supports the student union and ski cabin. Grudin is also well known for the "Grudin Paradox" or "Grudin Problem", which states basically with respect to the design of collaborative software for organizational settings, "What may be in the managers' best interests may not be in the interests of individual contributors, and therefore not used." Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, The Wire, New Amsterdam, Bosch, Treme, and The Man in the High Castle. John Elwood "Bud" Clark Jr. was an American politician and businessman who served as Mayor of Portland, Oregon, from 1985 to 1992. The Reed College campus has been the set of several motion pictures since 1977.[156]. Among those who attended but did not graduate from Reed are Academy Award-nominated actress Hope Lange, chef James Beard, horse rancher and conspiracy theorist Christopher Langan, and Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs. Broadcast syndication of the show ended on June 6, 2010, but the show continues to be produced weekly in an online version. For any questions about these trips, email alumni@reed.edu. [65], In 2006, Newsweek magazine named Reed as one of twenty-five "New Ivies",[66] listing it among "the nation's elite colleges". Discrete cases of grievance, known as "Honor Cases", are adjudicated by a Judicial Board of twelve full-time students. [146], Reed has ample recreational facilities on campus, a ski cabin on Mount Hood, recreational clubs such as the Reed Outing Club (ROC), and Club Sports (with college-paid coaches), including ultimate frisbee, co-ed soccer, rugby, basketball, and squash. 20. . Sascha Altman DuBrul, a.k.a. )[30] Although Reed does not award Latin honors to graduates, it confers several awards for academic achievement at commencement, including naming students to Phi Beta Kappa.[31]. [43], Reed's Humanities program includes the mandatory freshman course Introduction to Western Humanities covering ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, art, religion, and philosophy. Barret Eugene "Barry" Hansen, known professionally as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present. He published more than twenty books, and his memory is honored by his foundation's annual James Beard Awards. Hans Arthur Linde was a German Jewish American legal scholar and Oregon Supreme Court justice. His consistency was evident, as he posted only two game grades under 63.0 this past . This bridge, dubbed the "Bouncy Bridge", "Orange Bridge", and in some cases the "Amber Bridge" by students, is 370 feet (110m) long, about a third longer than the Blue Bridge, and "connect[s] the new north campus quad to Gray Campus Center, the student union, the library, and academic buildings on the south side of campus".[111]. Alumni [ edit] [71][72], The Class of 2026 had 394 students. The original Doyle Owl (originally "House F Owl" after the dormitory named House F that later became Doyle dormitory) was a garden sculpture from the neighborhood stolen by House F residents as a prank (there is a photo of House F residents around the original owl that has been made into a T-shirt). Howard Rheingold is an American critic, writer, and teacher, known for his specialties on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing). Reed also has several intercollegiate athletic clubs, notably the basketball,[33] rugby,[34] Ultimate Frisbee,[35][36] and soccer[37] teams. Adrian Chen is an American blogger, and former staff writer at The New Yorker. [116], Canyon Day, a tradition dating back to 1915, is held twice a year. Last Updated on December 13, 2022 by Fola Shade. Margaret Bechard is an American author of contemporary and science fiction for children and young adults. This page lists prominent, famous, and notable alumni of Reed College, an American institution of liberal arts and sciences, located in Oregons most populous city, Portland, along with their past and present positions. He is a former president of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. There are also theme residence halls including everything from substance-free living to Japanese culture to music to a dorm for students interested in outdoors activities (hiking, climbing, bicycling, kayaking, skiing, etc.). He was a key member of the arts and technology community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Reed announced on July 13, 2007, that it had purchased the Rivelli farm, a 1.5-acre (0.61ha) tract of land south of the Garden House and west of Botsford Drive. Required fields are marked *, document.getElementById("ak_js_1").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()). She is also the director of the Cooperation and Conflict lab at Arizona State University, vice president of the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer, and was the director of human and social evolution and co-founder of the Center for Evolution and Cancer at UCSF. Reed students and alumni referred to themselves as "Reedites" in the early years of the college. Alumnae/i can connect with other graduates, students, faculty, and staff on a variety of topics such as majors, industry, location, study abroad destinations, and even your CliftonStrengths identified . Alumni Academia In 2012, Solomon ran for Congress in California's 2nd congressional district. The campus and buildings have undergone several phases of growth, and there are now 21 academic and administrative buildings and 18 residence halls. These changes include expanding the parameters of the course to include more material regarding urban and cultural environments. He has written and/or produced numerous TV shows, including St. In 2010, she became "an activist on behalf of public schools". "[90] Local reporter James Pitkin of the newspaper Willamette Week editorialized that "Reed College, a private school with one of the most prestigious academic programs in the U.S., is one of the last schools in the country where students enjoy almost unlimited freedom to experiment openly with drugs, with little or no hassles from authorities", though Willamette Week stated the following week concerning Pitkin's editorial: "As of press time, almost 500 responses, many expressing harsh criticism of Willamette Week, had been posted on our website. He received the annual SoTA Typography Award of 2019. Maurice Isserman, formerly William R. Kenan and the James L. Ferguson chairs, is a long-time Professor of History at Hamilton College and important contributor to the "new history of American communism" that reinterpreted the role of the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s. Reed's prolific college career started with . Previously, he served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2013 to 2019, and was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2008 to 2012. According to Reed's website, each semester, a $130 student body fee "is collected from each full-time student by the business office, acting as agent for the student senate. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture,[5] and a forested canyon nature preserve at its center. Lawrence N. Shaw was an American physicist, curator, artist and founder of Pi Day. She won the Kundiman Poetry prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies for her book Split. He pioneered television cooking shows, taught at The James Beard Cooking School in New York City and Seaside, Oregon, and lectured widely. His books have also traced the emergence of the New Left and the 1960s. What the scouts say. Disney envisioned a . Under the 10-year Campus Master Plan adopted in 2006, Foster-Scholz is scheduled to be demolished and replaced, and MacNaughton to be remodeled. In contrast, the science section of campus, including the physics, biology, and psychology (originally chemistry) buildings, were designed in the Modernist style.