This page lists prominent, famous, and notable alumni of Reed College, an American institution of liberal arts and sciences, located in Oregon's most populous city, Portland, along with their past and present positions. [12] Simeon was an entrepreneur involved in several enterprises, including trade on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers with his close friend and associate, former Portland Mayor William S. Ladd (for whom Ladd's Addition is named). He teaches Religion and Literature at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. These are the only campus dorms that are independent of the school's board plan. He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colors. 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." Join us for one of the many alumni events we have planned. [100] Following the boycott, students created an activist group called Reedies Against Racism (RAR) and presented a list of demands for the college purportedly on behalf of students from marginalized backgrounds. His weekly show went into syndication in 1974 and was syndicated by the Westwood One Radio Network from 1978 to 1992. [92] This led The New York Times to conclude that "Reed has long been known almost as much for its unusually permissive atmosphere as for its impressively rigorous academics." "[27] Students can request copies of their official transcript from the registrar. Notable Reed alumni include Tektronix co-founder Howard Vollum (1936), businessman John Sperling (1948), linguistic anthropologist Dell Hymes (1950), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder (1951), fantasy author David Eddings (1954), distance learning pioneer John Bear (1959), socialist and feminist activist and author Barbara Ehrenreich (1963), radio personality Dr. Demento (1963), programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist Peter Norton (1965), former U.S. Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig (1965), alpinist and biophysical chemist Arlene Blum (1966), chemist Mary Jo Ondrechen (1974), computer engineer Daniel Kottke (1976), and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger (1991). This page lists prominent, famous, and notable alumni of Reed College, an American institution of liberal arts and sciences, located in Oregon's most populous city, Portland, along with their past and present positions. Though the school does not have varsity sports, the mascot features prominently throughout campus iconography outside of an athletic context. John Elwood "Bud" Clark Jr. was an American politician and businessman who served as Mayor of Portland, Oregon, from 1985 to 1992. 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. [103] The group eventually focused on Reed's banking relationship with Wells Fargo, based on allegations that the bank had invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline project and the private prison industry, and staged an occupation of Reed's Eliot Hall. Previously, he served as Director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and of the Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Jefferson resides in Portland, Oregon. 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. Founded in 1961, the California Institute of the Arts - or CalArts - located in Valencia, Los Angeles County, was the brainchild of Walt Disney. The Meadow was founded in Portland, Oregon, in 2006, hand has expanded to include three locations in Portland, one in Nolita in New York City, and one in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Regarded for its intellectualism, Reed is known for a mandatory first-year humanities program, senior thesis, progressive politics, de-emphasis on grades, academic rigor, grade deflation, and high proportion of graduates who go on to earn doctorates and postgraduate degrees. George Burgess Although one of the youngest additions to our list, 27-year-old George Burgess has achieved more in a decade than most of us do in a lifetime. Margaret Bechard is an American author of contemporary and science fiction for children and young adults. Alumni Nobel laureates Stanley Cohen (Ph.D. 1949), co-winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering growth factors (proteins regulating cell growth) in human and animal tissue There is no protected realm; one can never take refuge in, seek protection from, or hide behind a doctrine of rights. 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"[18], Contrary to popular belief, the college did not grow out of student revolts and experimentation, but out of a desire to provide a "more flexible, individualized approach to a rigorous liberal arts education". Arlene Blum is an American mountaineer, writer, and environmental health scientist. She is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in cognitive psychology and primarily known for her work on categorization, in particular her prototype theory, which has profoundly influenced the field of cognitive psychology. Meredith Mentors is an online platform connecting members of the Meredith College community for mentoring and networking. She is the Ford Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Clinton was the 42nd US president, serving from 1993 to 2001. Always check official university websites for the latest enrollment information. The Co-ops house students who purchase and prepare food together, sharing chores and conducting weekly, consensus-based meetings. Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. [112] The college's least-loved complex (as measured by applications to the college's housing lottery), MacNaughton and Foster-Scholz, is known on campus as "Asylum Block" because of its post-World War II modernist architecture and interior spaces dominated by long, straight corridors lined with identical doors, said by students to resemble that of an insane asylum. Prior to coming to Reed, Foster wrote that his ideal college would be one that "combats laziness, superficiality, dissipation, excessive indulgence in college life, by making the moral and intellectual requirements an honest, sustained, and adequate challenge to the best powers of the best American youth. 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. Jessica Litman is an American expert on copyright law and author of Digital Copyright:Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet, which traces the history of lobbying that led to the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Forti's published books include Handbook in Motion (1974, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), Angel (1978, self-published), and Oh Tongue (2003, Beyond Baroque Foundation, ed. His instrumental sound is characterized by a mix of Latin and North American guitar styles. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. There is also a Humanities Senior Symposium. [42] The Humanities program, which came into being in 1943 (as the union of two year-long courses, one in "world" literature, the other in "world" history) is one manifestation of this effort. In 1993, then-President Steve Koblik invited Moore to visit the college, and in 1995 the last surviving member of the Board that fired Moore expressed his regret and apologized to him. . 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard Portland, Oregon 97202-8199 Phone: 503-771-1112 Fax: 503-777-7769. He played "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio, and DJ "The Obscene" Steven Clean said that Hansen had to be "demented" to play it, and the name stuck. Steven Raichlen is an American culinary writer, TV host, and novelist. Kelly J. McCreary is an American actress, best known for her role on the ABC drama series Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Maggie Pierce, the half-sister of series protagonist Meredith Grey. The college's grounds include 116 acres (0.47km2) of contiguous land, including a wooded wetland known as Reed Canyon. EduRank.org is an independent metric-based ranking of 14,131 universities from 183 countries. He is the author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, West of Kabul, East of New York, and other books concerning Afghan and Muslim history. He is a principal of the Bigelow and Holmes studio. [67], Reed College ranked in the bottom 6% of four year colleges nationwide in the Brookings Institution's rating of U.S. colleges by incremental impact on alumni earnings 10 years post-enrollment. Reed has been featured in several books and movies. In 2010, she became "an activist on behalf of public schools". Aktipis is the author of the book published on March 24, 2020 from Princeton University Press The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps us Understand and Treat Cancer. Its most popular majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:[41], Reed President Richard Scholz in 1922 called the educational program as a whole "an honest effort to disregard old historic rivalries and hostilities between the sciences and the arts, between professional and cultural subjects, and, the formal chronological cleavage between the graduate and the undergraduate attitude of mind". Academic Leaders John Bravman, Bucknell president Joseph Castro, California State University chancellor Sean Decatur, Kenyon College president Michael Drake, University of California president Sophomores, juniors, and seniors may take Early Modern Europe covering Renaissance thought and literature; Modern Humanities covering the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and Modernism, and/or Foundations of Chinese Civilization. [88] His death prompted revelations of several previous incidents, including the near-death heroin overdose of another student only months earlier. Tom Crosshill is a Latvian author of speculative and literary fiction, active since 2010. It is the most intellectual college in the country Reed in Portland, Oregon. Referred to as one of the most intellectual colleges in the country, Reed is known for its high standards of scholarly practice, creative thinking, and engaged citizenship. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. The faculty has also recently approved several significant changes to the introductory syllabus. We use a proprietary database with an index of 44,909,300 scientific publications and 1,237,541,960 citations to rank universities across 246 research topics. Two are about cooking with Himalayan salt blocks, and helped pioneer the concept. 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.). Victor Jorgensen was a former Navy photo journalist who probably is most notable for taking an instantly iconic photograph of an impromptu scene in Manhattan on August 14, 1945, but from a different angle and in a less dramatic exposure than that of a photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt. As such, it is a community of unfreedom. Getting to Reed Campus map. He was a key member of the arts and technology community in the San Francisco Bay Area. President Michael J. Reed and Joanna K. Flynn, dean of curriculum and instruction, participated in both ceremonies. His consistency was evident, as he posted only two game grades under 63.0 this past . Discover the notable alumni of Reed College. [81], Reed has produced the second-highest number of Rhodes scholars for any liberal arts college32as well as over fifty Fulbright Scholars, over sixty Watson Fellows, and two MacArthur ("Genius") Award winners. He pioneered television cooking shows, taught at The James Beard Cooking School in New York City and Seaside, Oregon, and lectured widely. He was educated at Reed College and Yale University, where he received his PhD in English in 1995. Mike Davis is an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. [110][115] The new building is also designed to meet "LEED Platinum standards", and Reed is currently evaluating proposals to put solar panels on the roof. 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". [56], In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in the U.S. News & World Report "best colleges" rankings, making it the first educational institution in the United States to refuse to participate in college rankings. He studied at Oxford thanks to the prestigious Rhodes scholarship, and read PPE at University College from 1969 . Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Reed College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. Student body funds (totaling roughly $370,000 annually) are distributed each semester to groups that place among the top 40 organizations in the semester's funding poll. He served as an advisor of the President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign and was later the chairman of the national security think-tank, the Center for a New American Security. The campus and buildings have undergone several phases of growth, and there are now 21 academic and administrative buildings and 18 residence halls. [75] In 2004, 1.4% of Reed graduates defaulted on their student loans[77] below the national Cohort Default Rate average of 5.1%. In his 2005 Stanford commencement lecture, Apple Inc. founder and Reed dropout Steve Jobs credited a Reed calligraphy class taught by Robert Palladino for his focus on choosing quality typefaces for the Macintosh. 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 . [102] Other protests separate from the Humanities course also included efforts to shout down speakers, including Kimberly Peirce after she was accused of profiting from transphobia while making the film Boys Don't Cry. Reed also has off-campus housing. This list of distinguished Reed College alumni is loosely ordered by relevance, so the most recognizable celebrities who attended Reed College are at the top of the list. Sanger has worked on other online projects, including Nupedia, Encyclopedia of Earth, Citizendium, WatchKnowLearn, Reading Bear, Infobitt and Everipedia. They all attended the school with the most liberal alumni-- Reed College in Portland, Ore., says a new survey by The Alumni Factor, a school-ranking publication. He served as Director of the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability in the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City. Upcoming Trips Join Professor Pancho Savery in Cuba to experience a timeless yet rapidly evolving Cuba on a behind-the-scenes travel programexclusively for Reed College alumni and parentsthis October 14-20, 2023. I look forward to making your alumni experience both meaningful and fun as you stay involved with the brotherhood that lasts a lifetime! C. Richards, 1938 poetDavid Romtvedt, 1972 poetMary Rosenblum, 1975 authorVern Rutsala, 1956 poet and writerTina Satter, 2004 playwrightLeslie Scalapino, 1966 poet, publisher, and playwright[11]Gary Snyder, 1951 Pulitzer Prize winner and poetSally Watson, 1950 writerPhilip Whalen, 1951 poetLew Welch, 1950 poetJournalism and mediaEd Cony, 1948 Editor of The Wall Street Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1961Robert Richter, 1951 documentary filmmaker and Academy Award winnerBarbara Ehrenreich, 1963 journalist, political activist, author of Nickel and DimedJim Compton, 1964 journalist at PBSHoward Rheingold, 1968 writer, critic, and virtual media theoristOz Hopkins Koglin, 1974 first African-American woman to be hired as reporter at the Oregonian.Sheila Rogers, 1980 columnist and TV producer for The Late Show With David LettermanGary Wolf, 1983 author and writer for Wired.Anya Schiffrin, 1984 business journalist and author of Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the WorldAdam L. Penenberg, 1986 writer, professor of journalism at New York UniversityPeter S. Goodman, 1989 reporter for the New York Times and author of Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American EconomyRobert Smith, 1989 journalist, host of Planet Money.Arun Rath, 1994 correspondent for NPR and WGBH, former weekend host of NPRs All Things ConsideredMichelle Nijhuis, 1996 journalistPeter Zuckerman, 2003 journalist and authorAdrian Chen, 2009 journalist and former staff writer at The New Yorker.Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, 2014 journalist and producer at NPRs Planet Money.Inventors and Innovators, Steve JobsC. Sarah Dougher /dur/ is an American singer-songwriter, author, and teacher. [104], There was some opposition to the lecture protests, notably by Reed professor of English Luca Martnez Valdivia, who stated that a protest during her lecture on Sappho would amplify her pre-existing case of PTSD. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. Your email address will not be published. The class was drawn from the largest pool ever 9,023 applicantsand was the most selective in Reed's history, with an admittance rate of 30.8%. Some of the famous people who studied at Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art are Alan Rickman, Albert Finney, Michael Sheen, Ralph Fiennes & Allison Janney . Longer term, the college anticipates that it may seek to develop the northern portion of the property for additional student housing".[108]. Walter Berns was an American constitutional law and political philosophy professor. [138] This festival of learning takes the form of classes and seminars put on by anyone who wishes to teach, including students, professors, staff members, and outside educators invited on-campus by members of the Reed Community. Louis Sanford Goodman was an American pharmacologist. It has been called a "classic text". It was composed by former president William Trufant Foster shortly after Reed's founding, and is rarely heard today. Steven Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur, inventor, business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. The official school color of Reed is Richmond Rose. Phi Theta Kappa. 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. Hans Arthur Linde was a German Jewish American legal scholar and Oregon Supreme Court justice. Sascha Altman DuBrul, a.k.a. Her innovations in Postmodern dance, including her seminal 1961 body of work, Dance Constructions, along with her contribution to the early Fluxus movement, have influenced many notable dancers and artists. He has also written about the publication culture and history of human-computer interactions. The Air Force Academy has the most conservative alumni, the survey said, with notables that include several astronauts, Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich and miracle-on-the-Hudson pilot . IRIS, which stands for Integrated Reed Information System, allows the Reed alumnus/a access to a variety of resources but requires that you create an account. Born in the 1960s as an actual renaissance fair, it has long since lost all connection to anachronism and the Renaissance, although its name has persisted. List of famous alumni from Reed College, with photos when available. According to the school, "a conventional letter grade for each course is recorded for every student, but the registrar's office does not distribute grades to students, provided that work continues at satisfactory (C or higher) levels. Division of Arts: includes the Art (Art History and Studio Art), Dance, Music, and Theatre Departments; Division of History and Social Sciences: includes the History, Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, and Sociology Departments, as well as the International and Comparative Policy Studies Program; Division of Literature and Languages: includes the Classics, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish Departments, as well as the Creative Writing and General Literature Programs; Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences: includes the Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics Departments, and. He is Senior Research Associate at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Your email address will not be published. Contact Reed College. Malati Dasi is a senior spiritual leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). 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. in the 80s") is a student-run coffee shop located on campus. 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). Born in Vallejo, California, she was part of the hippie movement before becoming an initiated disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1967. This page lists prominent, famous, and notable alumni of Reed College, an American institution of liberal arts and sciences, located in Oregon 's most populous city, Portland, along with their past and present positions. Recently, he refocused his work on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas and the United States. Event Schedule Thursday, June 8 Hope Elise Ross Lange was an American film, stage, and television actress. [75] In 202223 over half of students received financial aid from the college. It is unclear whether this high reporting rate arises from the college and student body fostering an environment that is more supportive of reporting sexual assault or due to a higher offending pattern by students. This directory is not just composed of graduates of this school, as some of the famous people on this list didn't necessarily earn a degree from Reed College. Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. [86] The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, written by the staff of Yale Daily News, notes an impression among students of institutional permissiveness: "According to students, the school does not bust students for drug or alcohol use unless they cause harm or embarrassment to another student. Athena recently launched the second season of Zombified, a podcast created to communicate the science of zombification in daily life. While inspired by traditional honor systems, Reed's Honor Principle differs from those in that it is a guide for ethical standards themselves, and provides no codified rules governing behavior. Robert Klein Reed's Cooley Gallery is an internationally recognized contemporary art space located at the entrance to the Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library. Jacob B. Tanzer was an American attorney in the state of Oregon. [137] Many such classes are explicitly trivial (one long-running tradition is to hold an underwater basket weaving class), while others are trivially academic (such as "Giant Concrete Gnome Construction", a class that, incidental to building monolithic gnomes, includes some content relating to the construction of pre-Christian monoliths). He is also a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. One is brains. 20. . 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. In addition to famous Reed College graduates, it also includes some famous Reedies who did not graduate. He was awarded the inaugural CSCW Lasting Impact Award in 2014 on the basis of this work. The list you're viewing is made up of many different graduates, like Steve Jobs and Ry Cooder. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus, California State University - San Bernardino, Phillips School of Nursing at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. Discover the notable alumni of Reed College. Pamela C. Ronald is an American plant pathologist and geneticist. Today, Murphy's net worth is estimated at $85 million. Prominent graduates from Reed College include celebrities, politicians, business people, athletes and more. [129], An unofficial Reed Alma Mater, "Epistemology Forever", sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", has been sung by Reed students since the 1950s.[130]. 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. He attended the 2016 and 2020 Democratic National Conventions as a Bernie Sanders delegate. Eleanor Rosch is an American psychologist. [68], An episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History examines the flaws in the U.S. News system of university rankings. She is married to the painter Richard Tuttle, with whom she has frequently collaborated. Hansen created the Demento persona in 1970 while working at Pasadena, California, station KPPC-FM. [101] In response to protests the faculty decided to undergo the decennial review process a year early, as well as to complete the process in three months instead of the usual year. Paul Shaw is an American designer, calligrapher and historian of design who lives in New York City. [21], After World War II the college saw its enrollment numbers dramatically increase as veterans began enrolling in the college. Fernea is commonly regarded as a pioneer for women in the field of Middle East Studies. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families.
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