Deep Springs College
President Andy Zink | | |
Dean | Ryan Derby-Talbot | |
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Total staff | 30 (approximate) | |
Students | 26 (approximate) | |
Location | , , U.S. 37°22′26″N 117°58′48″W / 37.3739°N 117.98°W | |
Campus | Rural | |
Website | deepsprings |
Deep Springs College (known simply as Deep Springs or DS) is a
Founded in 1917 as Deep Springs, Collegiate and Preparatory, it was originally a
The college's alumni include
History
Deep Springs was founded in 1917 by L. L. Nunn, a business magnate who made a fortune building alternating current power plants in the Western United States. Nunn's first projects—a hydroelectric plant in Telluride, Colorado, and the Olmsted Power Station in Provo, Utah—served as the foundation for his inspiration to create a new type of educational institution.[3] As it became difficult to find enough engineers capable of living under rough conditions, he began schooling local men and pursued an interest in education.[4] Nunn eventually sold his industrial assets to fund the Telluride Association, an educational trust based at Cornell University, and the Telluride House.[5] After becoming dissatisfied with the association's mission, he founded Deep Springs and helped in its administration until his death in 1925.[6]
The establishment of Deep Springs was a reaction to what Nunn saw as a decline in academic standards in traditional American colleges.[7] His philosophy governing Deep Springs focused strictly around the pursuit of "academics, labor, and self-governance", something he dubbed the "three pillars" which supported the "whole man".[8] The inclusion of manual labor in a college's educational program was unusual in 1917, but a number of so-called manual labor colleges had existed in the United States in the 19th century—including, at one time, Oberlin College, which Nunn attended.[9] By the early 1860s, most had either closed or had abandoned their manual labor programs.[10]
These pillars entailed students playing an active role in the administration of the college by laboring in the field and contributing to student meetings during committees, which Nunn believed was an effective method of producing "leaders for a democratic society".
In the 1990s, the school's leadership debated transitioning the college to be
Curriculum
Students attend classes during the morning and spend the afternoon working on the ranch.[24] Though the majority of learning is loosely regulated and done mainly through informal discussions, there are two required courses: freshman composition and public speaking.[25] After graduation, approximately two-thirds of the student body transfer to an Ivy League university or another similarly ranked institution,[26][27] with a substantial portion going on to attend Cornell University, Brown University or the University of California, Berkeley.[12][28]
Self-governance is a critical part of the Deep Springs educational program. Students hold decision-making authority in determinations about admissions, curriculum, and faculty hiring. Every student serves on one of four standing committees during their time as a student: Applications (ApCom), Curriculum (CurCom), Communications (ComCom) or Review and Reinvitations (RCom). The Communications Committee (ComCom) was created in the early 1990s and charged with shaping the policies that define the college's relations with the world at large.[citation needed]
Campus
Deep Springs College is isolated within
Deep Springs used to have a direct telephone line that crossed the White Mountains, but difficult maintenance made service unsustainable.
A small
Alumni
Despite the small number of admitted students, Deep Springs disproportionately produces members of academia with the majority of graduates going on to receive
- Robert B. Aird, neurologist
- Nathaniel Borenstein, computer scientist
- Baird Bryant, filmmaker
- Albert Bush-Brown, architectural historian and former President of RISD
- Rhodes Scholar
- Rhodes Scholar
- Edwin Cronk, U.S. ambassador to Singapore
- John D'Agata, essayist
- dissidentsby secretly smuggling over 20,000 works of protest art from Soviet Russia
- Sean Eldridge, American political activist and former congressional candidate
- Thomas E. Fairchild, Wisconsin Attorney General and U.S. Court of Appeals judge
- Glen Fukushima, businessman and public servant
- Newton Garver, philosopher and peace activist
- Robert F. Gatje, architect and author
- Philip S. Gorski, sociologist at Yale University
- Philip Hanawalt, biologist
- David Hitz, computer engineer and co-founder of NetApp
- Park Honan, biographer
- Raymond B. Huey, biologist
- Raymond Jeanloz, geophysicist and MacArthur fellow
- Philip Kennicott, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Rhodes Scholar
- Benjamin Kunkel, novelist, founder of n+1 magazine
- John Wilson Lewis, political scientist
- William A. Masters, food economist
- Zachary Mider, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Erik Mueggler, sinologist and MacArthur fellow
- Jim Olin, U.S. Congressman
- Rhodes Scholar
- Vern Penner, U.S. Ambassador to Cape Verde
- Emmy Award-winning television reporter
- Herbert Reich, electrical engineer and inventor
- Damon Rich, urban planner and MacArthur fellow
- Peter Rock, novelist
- Gerard Saucier, professor of psychology at the University of Oregon
- Gus Simmons, mathematician and cryptographer, E. O. Lawrence award winner
- G. William Skinner, anthropologist
- Shepard M. Smith, NOAA officer
- Robert Sproull, physicist and educator
- Julian Steward, anthropologist
- William L. Sullivan, author of outdoor guide books
- Oscar Tuazon, artist
- William vanden Heuvel, diplomat
- William T. Vollmann, novelist
- Graeme Wood, journalist
See also
References
- ^ a b Staley 2019, p. 49.
- ^ Newell 1982, p. 120.
- ^ Bailey 1933, p. 28.
- ^ Anderson & Diehl 2004, p. 13.
- ^ a b Anderson & Diehl 2004, p. 14.
- ^ Bailey 1933, p. 68.
- ^ a b Newell 1982, p. 122.
- ^ Anderson & Diehl 2004, pp. 14–15.
- ISBN 0873388879.
- ^ Lull 1914, p. 387.
- ^ Newell et al. 1993, p. 23.
- ^ a b c Newell et al. 1993, p. 24.
- ^ Fleming 2009, p. 214.
- ^ Goodyear, Dana (August 28, 2006). "The Searchers: The fate of progressive education at Deep Springs College". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ Ruiz, Rebecca R. (September 19, 2011). "Elite, All-Male University of the Wild West To Go Coed". The New York Times. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
- ^ "Deep Springs College". Archived from the original on July 17, 2012.
- ^ Jaschik, Scott (January 11, 2012). "Women Blocked at Deep Springs". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- ^ "Appeals Court Issues Final Ruling Sustaining Lower Court Ruling for Coeducation". Deep Springs College. April 14, 2017.
- ^ "California Supreme Court Denies Request for Review, Lets Stand Appeals Court Ruling in Favor of Coeducation". Deep Springs College. June 29, 2017.
- ^ "Deep Springs Board Votes to Admit Women". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
- ^ "Coeducation". Deep Springs College. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ Staley 2019, pp. 49–50.
- ^ a b c d JBHE 2004, p. 43.
- ^ Anderson & Diehl 2004, p. 16.
- ^ Anderson & Diehl 2004, p. 17.
- ^ Newell et al. 1993, p. 26.
- ^ Newell 1982, p. 124.
- ^ Fleming 2009, p. 209.
- ^ Newell 1982, p. 123.
- 619+058+121) who would then put the call through manually. 'Deep Springs Toll Station #2.' was the published number until 1987; an attempt to call this in 1989 reported 'not in service'.
- ^ a b Deep Springs College Accreditation Team Evaluation Report (PDF) (Report). March 21–24, 2011.
- ^ "Employment FAQ". Deep Springs College. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ "Monitoring". Nevada Seismological Lab. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
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- ^ Tierney 1993, p. 35.
Notes
Sources
- Anderson, Christian K.; Diehl, Kirk A. (2004). "An Analysis of Deep Springs College". Higher Education Review. 1: 9–32.
- Bailey, Stephen A. (1933). L. L. Nunn - A Memoir. Telluride Association.
- Fleming, Bruce (2009). "The Deep Springs College Cowboy Lunch". The Antioch Review. 67 (2): 207–232.
- "Deep Springs College: The Nation's Most Selective and Almost All White College". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (44): 43. 2004. JSTOR 4133728.
- Lull, Herbert Galen (June 1914). "The Manual Labor Movement In the United States". Manual Training. Bulletin of the University of Washington. University studies,no. 8: 375–388.
- Newell, L. Jackson (1982). "Among The Few At Deep Springs College: Assessing A Seven-Decade Experiment in Liberal Education". The Journal of General Education. 34 (2): 120–134. ISSN 0021-3667.
- Newell, L Jackson; Reynolds, Katherine; Marsh, L Scott; Green, Katrina; Wilson, Keith (1993). Maverick Colleges: Fourteen Notable Experiments in American Undergraduate Education (2nd ed.). University of Utah Press.
- Staley, David J. (2019). Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education (1st ed.). ISBN 978-1421427416.
- Tierney, William G. (1993). Building Communities of Difference: Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century (1st ed.). ISBN 978-0897893121.
External links
- Official website
- 60 Minutes segment aired October 10, 2021: "Deep Springs College brings rigorous academics to a ranch in the high California desert"