Telluride Association

The Telluride Association is a

non-profit organization in the United States founded in 1910 by Lucien Lucius Nunn and named for his hometown, Telluride, Colorado

. The organization states its mission as providing young people with free educational programs emphasizing intellectual curiosity, democratic self-governance, and social responsibility.

The Association's principal programs are summer seminars for high school students and the operation of scholarship "branches" for college students. These residential programs are extremely selective and are offered at no cost to the students. The Association is governed largely by those elected to membership from its recent alumni, Deep Springs College alumni, and current Branch students.

History

Cornell

. It has since expanded to encompass a variety of co-educational summer programs, scholarships, and additional houses. The Association is non-denominational and tied to no particular political viewpoint.

Telluride Houses

Gayatri Spivak. Faculty guests also live at the houses for limited terms. Distinguished faculty guests have included Michel Foucault, Richard Feynman, Frances Perkins, Linus Pauling, and Allan Bloom.^[1]

Telluride Houses formerly existed in Pasadena, California, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago.

Telluride Association Summer Program

Telluride Association Summer Programs (TASPs) are six-week educational experiences for rising high school seniors. Participants attend an intensive seminar led by college and university faculty members and participate in educational and social activities outside the classroom. Like the houses, each TASP receives a discretionary budget, whose use is democratically distributed via weekly house meetings. Currently, TASPs are hosted at

University of Maryland at College Park

.

Telluride Association Sophomore Seminars

Telluride Association Sophomore Seminars (TASSes) are also six-week summer programs. TASSes, which are offered to high school sophomores, have an academic focus on

African American studies and related fields. Their basic structure is similar to that of the TASPs, and some TASS alumni choose to attend a TASP the following summer. TASSes have been held at Indiana University from 1993 to 2016, at the University of Michigan since 2002, and at Cornell University

since 2015.

Awards

Telluride Association Awards are awarded to members of the Telluride community by the Association.

The Mansfield-Wefald Senior Thesis Prize is awarded annually for the best scholarly thesis written by a Telluride associate who will have completed his or her final year of undergraduate education that year.

The Mike Yarrow Adventurous Education Award is given annually to a returning member of a Branch of Telluride Association, or a Deep Springs student who will be entering a Branch the following year. The award funds non-paying public service activity during the summer that is outside of an academic institution.

The Nunn Archive Fellowship is awarded to help associates study and preserve the legacy of Lucien Lucius Nunn.

Beginning in the late 1950s, the Telluride House at Cornell operated a two-year postgraduate exchange scholarship program with

M.Phil.

while resident at Lincoln College. Despite efforts of both sides, the program was ended in 2002.

The Reese Miller Exchange Scholarship is available to students at Cornell University, University of Michigan, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The scholarship operates as an exchange for one semester or one year between recent undergraduates and graduate students at Cornell and CEU and between students at University of Michigan and UCT.

The Atkinson-Tetreault Fellowship is available to Masters in Regional Planning students at Cornell University. The award is offered once every two years and includes room and board at the Telluride House, a stipend, and a partial tuition award.

Membership

Telluride Association consists of about 100 volunteer members who serve as the Association's trustees. Members are elected to membership, usually while in their twenties, on the basis of demonstrated leadership and commitment to Telluride's educational goals. The Association's membership is mainly current and former participants of its programs and alumni of Deep Springs College, a separate two-year college founded by Nunn in 1917.

References

^ "About > History Archived 2009-04-18 at the Wayback Machine", Telluride Association

External links

Telluride Association, official website
Michigan Branch of the Telluride Association, official website
Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association, official website

[1] "About > History Archived 2009-04-18 at the Wayback Machine", Telluride Association

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