The Icarus Project (2002–2020) was a network of peer-support groups and media projects with the stated aim of changing the social stigmas regarding mental health.
78-770: In 2002, Sascha Altman DuBrul wrote an article published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian about his experiences being diagnosed with bipolar disorder . He founded the Icarus Project with Jacks McNamara, an artist and writer. The Project sought to create spaces where people could talk freely about their lived experiences in regards to their mental health . Years later, musician-activist Bonfire Madigan Shive and counsellor/activist Will Hall became key members in The Icarus Project's administration and development. The Icarus Project's stated aims were to provide
156-512: A narrative evaluation . 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. Unsatisfactory grades are reported directly to the student and the student's adviser. Papers and exams are generally returned to students with lengthy comments but without grades affixed." Students can request copies of their official transcript from
234-500: A natural spring that drains into Johnson Creek . Canyon Day, a tradition dating back to 1915, is held twice a year. On Canyon Day students and Reed neighbors join canyon crew workers to spend a day helping with restoration efforts. A landmark of the campus, the Blue Bridge , spans the canyon. This bridge replaced the unique cantilevered bridge that served in that spot between 1959 and 1991, which "featured stressed plywood girders –
312-404: A "support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness." The responsibilities of the group are to gather people locally for support, and access to alternatives to mainstream medical diagnosis and treatment. The Project advocates self-determination and caution when approaching psychiatric care. It encourages alternatives to
390-534: A campus-wide email that the course curriculum would be restructured after years of faculty discussion and in response to student feedback as well as input from an external review committee composed of humanities faculty from other institutes, adopting a "four-module structure" that would include texts from the Americas and allow greater flexibility in the curriculum which would be integrated beginning fall 2018. The external review had not in fact been completed nor reviewed at
468-718: A diverse number of activist projects: from Earth First! road blockades of the Pacific Northwest, to the fight to save the community gardens in New York City, to the protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in November 1999. Often DuBrul would travel between activist projects on freight trains . The details of his wanderings across the country and through Mexico often ended up in zines which, according to
546-490: A dorm for students interested in outdoors activities (hiking, climbing, bicycling, kayaking, skiing, etc.). 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 . Until 2006, it
624-432: A housing lottery after freshman year. The new building is also designed to meet "LEED Platinum standards", and Reed is currently evaluating proposals to put solar panels on the roof. 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 ). The canyon is filled by Crystal Creek Springs,
702-465: A liberal arts college. Reed is ranked fourth in the United States for the percentage of its graduates who earn a PhD. The Reed Institute (the legal name of the college) was founded in 1908 and held its first classes in 1911. Reed is named for Oregon pioneers Simeon Gannett Reed (1830–1895) and Amanda Reed (died 1904). Simeon was an entrepreneur involved in several enterprises, including trade on
780-564: A model for other seed libraries across the country, including the Hudson Valley Seed Library, the first seed library in a public library in the country. According to Michael Carolan, there are currently more than 660 seed libraries in 48 states in the US. The author Ruth Ozeki drew from DuBrul’s vision of seed activism for her New York Times Notable Book All Over Creation. In 2002, DuBrul wrote "Bipolar World", an article published in
858-574: A network of mentorship to positively transform the mental health system. Dubrul is quoted as saying that “his interests lie at the intersection of the public mental health system and the Mad Underground.” In recent years, DuBrul has focused on his private practice and developing the growing Transformative Mental Health Movement. He is a public proponent and practitioner of the Internal Family Systems therapy model . In 2022, he taught
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#1732891404309936-540: A new view of mental illness. DuBrul has been quoted as claiming he has "superpowers" due to his allegedly heightened sensitivity to his surroundings. The Icarus Project is an online, international radical community support network and media project with over 14,000 participants. It has numerous local groups across North America and has released a number of publications. Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness; A Reader and Roadmap of Bipolar Worlds
1014-534: A project done by a Reed professor of statistics and her students to investigate the mechanics of the ranking algorithm, attempting to see if Reed's ranking had been purposefully devalued because the school refused to submit its information to U.S. News. Previous investigations by Reed students to re-create U.S. News's statistical ranking algorithm found that Reed's correct 2019 rank was #38 instead of its assigned rank of #90. The Class of 2026 had 394 students. Median SAT scores were 690 math and 720 reading. The class
1092-457: A protest during her lecture on Sappho would amplify her pre-existing case of PTSD . In November 2017, Chris Bodenner of The Atlantic wrote about growing student resentment toward the tactics of RAR. 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. In January 2018, Humanities 110 Chair professor Libby Drumm announced in
1170-573: A wooded wetland known as Reed Canyon. Portland architect A. E. Doyle developed a plan, never implemented in full, modeled on the University of Oxford's St. John's College . 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. In contrast,
1248-541: A year but dropped out after having a psychotic break . In a 2002 article for the San Francisco Bay Guardian , DuBrul wrote: "I was 18 years old the first time they locked me up in a psych ward. The police found me walking on the subway tracks in New York City, and I was convinced the world was about to end and I was being broadcast live on prime-time TV on all the channels.” He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder . After dropping out of Reed, DuBrul played in
1326-517: Is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon , United States. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, Tudor - Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at its center. Reed alumni include 123 Fulbright Scholars , 73 Watson Fellows , and three Churchill Scholars . Its 32 Rhodes Scholars are the second-most for
1404-425: Is a "potentially fatal choice" for those with bipolar disorder. While Icarus Project staff have described their expertise in social activism, herbalism, and labour organizing; none of them are licensed medical or mental health professionals. The Icarus Project advisory board members describe their members as educators, artists, activists, writers, healers, community organizers, and other creative types. Some members of
1482-747: Is also a Humanities Senior Symposium. Reed also offers interdisciplinary programs in American studies, Environmental Studies, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry-Physics, Classics-Religion, Dance/Theatre, History-Literature, International and Comparative Policy Studies (ICPS), Literature-Theatre, Mathematics-Economics, and Mathematics-Physics. Reed offers dual-degree programs in Computer Science (with University of Washington ), Engineering (with Caltech , Columbia University , and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ), Forestry or Environmental Management (with Duke University ), and Fine Art (with
1560-502: Is an American activist, writer, farmer and punk rock musician known as the bass player of the 1990s ska-punk band Choking Victim . He is also the co-founder of The Icarus Project , an international community support network and media project, which is attempting to redefine the language and culture of mental health and illness. He founded the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library (BASIL). He divides his time between
1638-510: Is not Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, or Stanford. It is the most intellectual college in the country — Reed in Portland, Oregon." Since the 1960s, Reed has had a reputation for tolerating open drug use among its students. 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,
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#17328914043091716-449: Is ranked first in producing PhDs in biology , second in chemistry and humanities , third in history, foreign languages , and political science , fourth in science and mathematics , fifth in physics and social sciences , sixth in anthropology , seventh in area and ethnic studies and linguistics , and eighth in English literature and medicine . Reed's debating team was awarded
1794-411: The San Francisco Bay Guardian , relating his personal experiences being diagnosed with bipolar disorder . Among the dozens of e-mails and other correspondence that he received after this publication was a letter from Jacks Ashley McNamara, an artist and writer who identified strongly with his experiences. DuBrul and McNamara corresponded for a few weeks to form The Icarus Project , devoted to creating
1872-493: The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigation. According to an article in the college's alumni magazine, "because of the decisive support expressed by Reed's faculty, students, and alumni for the three besieged teachers and for the principle of academic freedom, Reed College's experience with McCarthyism stands apart from that of most other American colleges and universities. Elsewhere in
1950-540: The Pacific Northwest College of Art ). 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. According to Reed's Office of Admissions the school's refusal to participate is based in 1994 disclosures by The Wall Street Journal about institutions flagrantly manipulating data in order to move up in
2028-668: The Village Voice , "combine[d] adventure-travel tales with thoughtful observations about the global economy.” DuBrul was the inspiration for singer Jolie Holland 's song Sascha . While interning at a CSA farm in British Columbia , DuBrul became fascinated by permaculture and the genetic relationships that arose when domestic crops intermingled with their wild relatives. Having been raised in Manhattan, his urban sensibilities spawned his thinking about agriculture and what he believed
2106-603: The Willamette and Columbia Rivers with his close friend and associate, former Portland Mayor William S. Ladd . Unitarian minister Thomas Lamb Eliot , who knew the Reeds from the church choir, is credited with convincing Reed of the need for the school. Reed's will provided for the gift, and Ladd's son, William Mead Ladd, donated 40 acres from the Ladd Estate Company to build the new college. Reed's first president (1910–1919)
2184-571: The Woodstock and Eastmoreland Portland neighborhoods are traditionally rented to Reed students. On February 21, 2018, Reed announced the construction of the "largest residence hall in its history". 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%. The addition of Trillium guarantees housing for both freshman and sophomores, as students were formerly subjected to
2262-582: The ska-punk band Choking Victim . In 1995, he co-organized a traveling punk circus, which he then wrote about in his first book Carnival of Chaos: On the Road With the Nomadic Festival , published by Autonomedia . For eight years, DuBrul wrote a quarterly column for the punk zine Slug and Lettuce . DuBrul has written and lectured about the perceived relationships between punk, activist culture, racial identity, oppression, and privilege. His memoir Maps to
2340-463: The 15th "most rigorous" college in the nation. 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. An episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History examines the flaws in the U.S. News system of university rankings. The episode features
2418-465: The 1930s, President Dexter Keezer was concerned about the fraternization among male and female students and the consumption of alcohol by students. A large portion of the Student Council took the position that Oregon's liquor laws did not apply to Reed's campus. Policies restricting the ability of students from visiting the dormitories of the opposite sex were fiercely resisted. After World War II
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2496-413: The 2022–23 academic year, including tuition, fees and room-and-board, was $ 80,710. Indirect costs (books, supplies, transportation, personal expenses) could be another $ 3,950. For the 2022–23 academic year, the average financial aid package was $ 52,284. In 2022–23 over half of students received financial aid from the college. In 2004, 1.4% of Reed graduates defaulted on their student loans – below
2574-594: The Birchwood Apartments complex and former medical administrative offices on either side of SE 28th Avenue, and the Parker House, across SE Woodstock from Prexy. At the same time the Willard House (donated to Reed in 1964), across from the college's main entrance at SE Woodstock and SE Reed College Place, was converted from faculty housing to administrative use. Reed announced on July 13, 2007, that it had purchased
2652-545: The College provides on-campus housing for 838 students". 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). They opened on the northwest side of campus in Fall 2008. A new Spanish House residence was completed. Together, the five new residences added 142 new beds. Reed also has off-campus housing. Many houses in
2730-535: The Hebrew Bible and ancient Jewish history , and as of 2019, Ancient Mesoamerica and the Harlem Renaissance. Reed also has a TRIGA research reactor on campus, making it the only school in the United States to have a nuclear reactor operated primarily by undergraduates. Reed also requires all students to complete a thesis (a two-semester-long research project conducted under the guidance of professors) during
2808-684: The Icarus Project to train as a clinician in the public mental health system. He attended social work school at Silberman School of Social Work, which included a year long internship (in dialogic practice) with the Parachute Project, and he was then hired by the Center for Practice Innovations at the New York State Psychiatric Institute as a trainer of Peer Specialists in First Episode Psychosis programs. While at
2886-570: The Institute, he was the first author for the Peer Specialist manual for OnTrackNY. During this period, DuBrul also helped to develop the Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA), a training institute for mental health workers. This institute offers training to clinicians and peer workers in order to think about their personal relationship to mental health and illness. It is also building
2964-687: The Other Side was released in 2013 and focuses on DuBrul's navigation of the psychiatric system and creative mental health advocacy. In recent years, his writing has focused on drawing links between punk rock, Judaism, and the power and complexities of spiritual community. In his early twenties, DuBrul traveled to Mexico and Central America and worked with the Zapatista Uprising in Chiapas . Inspired by his experiences in Mexico, he went on to participate in
3042-515: The Reed administration chose to call the police following the discovery of "two to three pounds of marijuana and a small amount of ecstasy and LSD in the on-campus apartment of two juniors." Following campus debate, Reed's president at the time, Colin Diver, issued a letter to students and staff, saying the college would not tolerate illegal drug use on campus: "Such behavior endangers the health and welfare of
3120-689: The Rivelli farm, a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha ) tract of land south of the Garden House and west of Botsford Drive. Reed's "immediate plans for the acquired property include housing a small number of students in the former Rivelli home during the 2007–08 academic year. Longer term, the college anticipates that it may seek to develop the northern portion of the property for additional student housing". Reed houses 945 students in 18 residence halls on campus and several college-owned houses and apartment buildings on or adjacent to campus. Residence halls on campus range from
3198-584: The San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. DuBrul was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the son of Anita Altman , the founder and deputy director of the ReelAbilities : NY Disabilities Film Festival. His father, Paul DuBrul, was a journalist and speechwriter who died the night before DuBrul's Bar Mitzvah . In an interview with the Village Voice , DuBrul described his childhood: "I
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3276-602: The U.S. News scoring rubric. Money magazine ranked Reed 512th in the U.S. out of 623 schools evaluated for its 2022 "Best Colleges for Your Money" edition. Reed is ranked as tied for the 72nd best liberal arts college by U.S. News & World Report in its 2022 rankings, and tied for 16th in "Best Undergraduate Teaching", tied for 13th in "Most Innovative Schools", and tied for 185th in "Top Performers on Social Mobility". In 2006, Newsweek magazine named Reed as one of twenty-five "New Ivies", listing it among "the nation's elite colleges". In 2012, Newsweek ranked Reed
3354-418: The academic world both tenured and nontenured professors with alleged or admitted communist party ties were fired with relatively little fuss or protest. At Reed, however, opposition to the political interrogations of the teachers was so strong that some believed the campus was in danger of closure." A statement of "regret" by the Reed administration and Board of Trustees was published in 1981, formally revising
3432-630: The basketball, rugby, Ultimate Frisbee, and soccer teams. Reed categorizes its academic program into five Divisions and the Humanities program. Overall, Reed offers five Humanities courses, twenty-six department majors, twelve interdisciplinary majors, six dual-degree programs with other colleges and universities, and programs for pre-medical and pre-veterinary students. Its three most popular majors, based on 2023 graduates, were Psychology, Biology/Biological Sciences, and Computer and Information Sciences. Reed President Richard Scholz in 1922 called
3510-450: The class deemed racist by the protestors was the use of the 1978 Steve Martin song "King Tut" in a discussion about cultural appropriation . Students began a protest campaign against the curriculum by sitting in during lectures with signs with quotations from various African-American and non-white academics. Other protests separate from the Humanities course also included efforts to shout down speakers, including Kimberly Peirce after she
3588-539: The college saw its enrollment numbers dramatically increase as veterans began enrolling in the college. The college has developed a reputation for the political progressivism of its student body. According to sociologist Burton Clark, Reed is one of the most unusual institutions of higher learning in the United States, featuring a traditional liberal arts and natural sciences curriculum. It requires freshmen to take Humanities 110, an intensive introduction to multidisciplinary inquiry, covering ancient Greece and Rome,
3666-541: The drug death was an isolated incident or part of a larger problem. "When you say Reed," Diver said, "two words often come to mind. One is brains. One is drugs." 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
3744-418: 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". The Humanities program, which came into being in 1943 (as the union of two year-long courses, one in "world" literature,
3822-487: The entire community, attracts potentially dangerous criminal activity on campus, undermines the academic mission of the college, and violates the college's obligations under state and federal law." Reed has a reputation for being politically left-of-center. During the McCarthy era of the 1950s, then-President Duncan Ballantine fired Marxist philosopher Stanley Moore , a tenured professor, for his failure to cooperate with
3900-604: The first place sweepstakes trophy for Division II schools at the final tournament of the Northwest Forensics Conference in February 2004. Loren Pope , former education editor for The New York Times , writes about Reed in Colleges That Change Lives , saying, "If you're a genuine intellectual, love the life of the mind, and want to learn for the sake of learning, the place most likely to empower you
3978-401: The first time this construction had been used on a span of this size: a straight bridge 132 feet (40 m) long and 15 feet (4.6 m) high. It attracted great architectural interest during its lifetime". A new pedestrian and bicycle bridge spanning the canyon was opened in Fall 2008. This bridge, dubbed the "Bouncy Bridge", "Orange Bridge", and in some cases the "Amber Bridge" by students,
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#17328914043094056-609: 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." In March 2010, another student died of drug-related causes in his off-campus residence. 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." Law enforcement authorities promised to take action, including sending undercover agents to Reed's annual Renn Fayre celebration. In February 2012,
4134-882: The group identify as Latinx, queer, trans, people of colour or mixed race, and trauma survivors. The Icarus Project was under the fiscal sponsorship of FJC, a non-profit 501(c)3 umbrella organization arm of an investment firm, based in New York City. The Icarus Project formerly got the bulk of its money from foundation grants, including the Ittleson Foundation, but it also had many individual donors. Educational materials published by The Icarus Project have been published in Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Greek, and Bosnian/Croatian. Some of these publications are listed below: Films about Icarus Project members are listed below: Sascha Scatter Sascha Altman DuBrul , a.k.a. Sascha DuBrul or Sascha Scatter , (born 1974)
4212-482: The issue of police brutality against African-Americans . 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. The primary demand concerned Reed's mandatory freshman Humanities course, proposing that the course either be changed to be more inclusive of world literature and classics or to be made not mandatory. One element of
4290-556: The judgment of the 1954 trustees. 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. On September 26, 2016, students organized a boycott of all college operations in participation with the National Day of Boycott, a national day of protest which was proposed by actor Isaiah Washington on Twitter in response to
4368-616: The mandatory freshman course Introduction to Western Humanities covering ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, art, religion, and philosophy. 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 . There
4446-436: The medical model that is accepted by mental health professionals. In 2005, journalist Jennifer Itzenson noted that while the Icarus Project may accept those with a wide range of "perspectives" on mental health issues, there is also "an edge of militancy within the group," particularly among those who reject medication. Itzenson also writes that's the group's questioning of medical care is "misguided" and that rejecting medication
4524-691: The national Cohort Default Rate average of 5.1%. Reed's endowment as of June 30, 2023, was $ 764 million. In the economic downturn that began in late 2007, Reed's total endowment had declined from $ 455 million in June 2007 to $ 311 million in June 2009. By the end of 2013, however, the endowment surpassed the $ 500 million mark. Reed has produced the second-highest number of Rhodes scholars for any liberal arts college—32—as well as over one hundred Fulbright Scholars , over seventy Watson Fellows , and three MacArthur ("Genius") Award winners. A very high proportion of Reed graduates go on to earn PhDs, particularly in
4602-461: The natural sciences, history, political science , and philosophy. Reed is ranked third in the percentage of graduates who go on to earn PhDs in all disciplines, after only Caltech and Harvey Mudd . In 1961, Scientific American declared that second only to Caltech, "This small college in Oregon has been far and away more productive of future scientists than any other institution in the U.S." Reed
4680-481: The other in "world" history) is one manifestation of this effort. One change to the program was the addition of a course in Chinese Civilization in 1995. The faculty has also recently approved several significant changes to the introductory syllabus. These changes include expanding the parameters of the course to include more material regarding urban and cultural environments. Reed's Humanities program includes
4758-443: The rankings in U.S. News and other popular college guides. U.S. News maintains that their rankings are "a very legitimate tool for getting at a certain level of knowledge about colleges." 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. The students found the college to be ranked an estimated 52 places below an unbiased application of
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#17328914043094836-410: The registrar. There is no dean's list or honor roll per se , but students who maintain a GPA of 3.5 or above for an academic year receive academic commendations at the end of the spring semester which are noted on their transcripts. Many Reed students graduate without knowing their cumulative GPA or their grades in individual classes. Reed is singled out as having little to no grade inflation over
4914-423: The school does not bust students for drug or alcohol use unless they cause harm or embarrassment to another student." In April 2008, student Alex Lluch died of a heroin overdose in his on-campus dorm room. His death prompted revelations of several previous incidents, including the near-death heroin overdose of another student only months earlier. College President Colin Diver said "I don't honestly know" whether
4992-640: The science section of campus, including the physics, biology, and psychology (originally chemistry) buildings, were designed in the Modernist style. The Psychology Building, completed in 1949, was designed by Modernist architect Pietro Belluschi at the same time as his celebrated Equitable Building in downtown Portland. The campus and buildings have undergone several phases of growth, and there are now 21 academic and administrative buildings and 18 residence halls. Since 2004, Reed's campus has expanded to include adjacent properties beyond its historic boundaries, such as
5070-402: The senior year as a prerequisite of graduation. Upon completion of the senior thesis, students must also pass an oral defense of ninety minutes related to the thesis topic and how the thesis relates to the larger context of the student's studies. Reed maintains a 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio. Although letter grades are given to students, grades are de-emphasized at Reed and focus is placed on
5148-580: The summers of 2010 and 2012, he co-taught month long seminars at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur . In the Spring of 2013, in conjunction with the release of his book, Maps to the Other Side, DuBrul, along with Icarus Project co-founder Ashley Jacks McNamara, toured the United States giving readings, and conducting workshops and discussions on mental health. After 12 years, DuBrul stepped back from his work with
5226-578: The time of the announcement. Following "a contentious year of protests, including an anti-racism sit-in in Kroger's office", college president John Kroger resigned, effective June 2018. 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. The college's grounds include 116 acres (0.47 km ) of contiguous land, including
5304-558: The traditional (i.e., Gothic Old Dorm Block, referred to as "ODB") to the eclectic (e.g., Anna Mann, a Tudor-style cottage built in the 1920s by Reed's founding architect A. E. Doyle, originally used as a women's hall ), language houses (Spanish, Russian, French, German, and Chinese), "temporary" housing, built in the 1960s (Cross Canyon – Chittick, Woodbridge, McKinley, Griffin), to more recently built dorms (Bragdon, Naito, Sullivan). There are also theme residence halls including everything from substance-free living to Japanese culture to music to
5382-670: The years; only ten students graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA in the period from 1983 to 2012. (Transcripts are accompanied by a card contextualizing Reed's grading approach so as not to penalize students' graduate school applications.) 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 . Reed has no fraternities or sororities and few NCAA sports teams although physical education classes (which range from kayaking to juggling to capoeira ) are required for graduation. Reed also has several intercollegiate athletic clubs, notably
5460-574: The “Severe Mental Illness” course at the Community Mental Health program at the California Institute of Integral Studies . Later that year, DuBrul spoke on a panel hosted by IDHA called “Movement Lineages” where he and other movement leaders reflected “on how radical mental health organizing has shifted and evolved over the past several decades” to “share key lessons that can inform future work.” Reed College Reed College
5538-431: Was William Trufant Foster , a former professor at Bates College and Bowdoin College . Founded explicitly as a reaction against the "prevailing model of East Coast, Ivy League education", the college's lack of varsity athletics , fraternities , and exclusive social clubs – as well as its coeducational , nonsectarian , and egalitarian status — gave way to an intensely academic and intellectual college. During
5616-532: Was accused of profiting from transphobia while making the film Boys Don't Cry . 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. There was some opposition to the lecture protests, notably by Reed professor of English Lucía Martínez Valdivia, who stated that
5694-504: Was drawn from the largest pool ever— 9,023 applicants—and was the most selective in Reed's history, with an admittance rate of 30.8%. As of 2018 , to increase student enrollment from historically underrepresented minorities, Reed encourages application to the college's "Discover Reed Fly-In Program", an all-inclusive, all-expenses-paid, multi-day campus tour and open to all high school seniors who are US citizens or permanent residents, regardless of race or ethnicity. The total direct cost for
5772-530: Was published by the Icarus Project in March 2004 and is currently in its 10th printing. Shortly after the Icarus launched, DuBrul embarked on a tour of North America, facilitating workshops and leading discussions on alternative conceptions of mental illness and wellness. After the tour, Dubrul worked with McNamara and other Icarus members to create a guide for creating community support around madness and mental health. This
5850-557: Was published under the title "Friends Make the Best Medicine." In 2007, DuBrul and a group of fellow Icarus Project members organized the "Mad Gifts Tour." As part of this tour, the group visited Virginia Tech soon after the April 16th massacre of 32 students, which stirred controversy about mental health on college campuses. DuBrul toured Europe in 2011, facilitating workshops and giving talks about radical mental health support. During
5928-632: Was raised by democratic socialists who believed in electoral politics…but my political education happened amidst the Tompkins Square riots of the late '80s.” In his teens, DuBrul found community among punks and anarchist squatters on the Lower East Side . After attending Hunter College Elementary School and Bronx High School of Science , DuBrul graduated from St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon for
6006-488: Was the need to revitalize older methods of community seed production. In 2000, he founded the first urban seed lending library : the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library, or BASIL. In an interview with the New York Times , DuBrul said: “An urban seed library is about the relationship between biological and cultural diversity, and people having a direct connection to the seeds that are growing their foods.” BASIL has become
6084-412: Was thought that these residence halls had been designed by architect Pietro Belluschi . Under the 10-year Campus Master Plan adopted in 2006, Foster-Scholz is scheduled to be demolished and replaced, and MacNaughton to be remodeled. According to the master plan, "The College's goal is to provide housing on or adjacent to the campus that accommodates 75% of the [full-time] student population. At present,
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