Editing Reed College

{{short description|Private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2012}}
{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Reed College
 | image                  = Formal Seal of Reed College, Portland, OR, USA.svg
 | image_upright          = .7
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 | established            = {{start date and age|1908}}
 | type                   = [[Private college|Private]] [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts college]]
 | endowment              = $814.45 million (2024)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |title=U.S. and Canadian 2024 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2024 Endowment Market Value, Change in Market Value from FY23 to FY24, and FY24 Endowment Market Values Per Full-time Equivalent Student |date=February 12, 2025 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) |access-date=February 12, 2025 |format=XLSX |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250212074654/https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |archive-date=February 12, 2025 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | president              = [[Audrey Bilger]]
 | faculty                = 164<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Galbraith|first1=Quinn|last2=Smart|first2=Elizabeth|last3=Smith|first3=Sara D.|last4=Reed|first4=Megan|date=2014-09-01|title=Who Publishes in Top-Tier Library Science Journals? An Analysis by Faculty Status and Tenure|journal=College & Research Libraries|volume=75|issue=5|pages=724–735|doi=10.5860/crl.75.5.724|issn=2150-6701|doi-access=free}}</ref>
 | students               = 1,358 (fall 2024)
 | undergrad              = 1,346 (fall 2024)<ref name="Enrollment">{{cite web |title = Facts about Reed - Detailed Enrollment |publisher=Institutional Research, Reed College |url=https://www.reed.edu/ir/enrollment_more.html}}</ref>
 | postgrad               = 12 (fall 2024)<ref name="Enrollment"/>
 | city                   = [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]]
 | state                  = [[Oregon]]
 | country                = United States
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 | campus                 = [[Suburb]]an, 116 acres (470,000&nbsp;m²)
 | colors                 = Reed Red<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reed.edu/public-affairs/assets/downloads/reed-graphic-standards.pdf |title=Standards Guide |publisher=Reed College |access-date=2023-04-05}}</ref><br />{{Color box|#A70E16|border=darkgray}}
 | mascot                 = [[Griffin]]
 | website                = {{URL|https://www.reed.edu}}
 | logo                   = Reed College Wordmark.png
 | logo_upright           = 1.0
 | affiliations           = {{unbulleted list
|[[Annapolis Group]]
|[[Oberlin Group]]
|[[Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges|CLAC]]
|[[National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities|NAICU]]
}}
}}

'''Reed College''' is a [[Private college|private]] [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts college]] in [[Portland, Oregon]], United States. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the [[Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon|Eastmoreland]] neighborhood, [[Tudor style architecture|Tudor]]-[[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]] style architecture,<ref name="coat-of-arms">{{cite web |url=http://web.reed.edu/facilities_and_grounds/buildings/eliot.html |title=Eliot Hall |access-date=December 18, 2007 |work=Facilities & Grounds |publisher=Reed College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015174408/http://reed.edu/facilities_services/buildings/eliot.html |archive-date=October 15, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a forested canyon nature preserve at its center. Reed [[List of Reed College people|alumni]] include 123 [[Fulbright Scholars]], 73 [[Thomas J. Watson Fellowship|Watson Fellows]], and three [[Churchill Scholarship|Churchill Scholars]]. Its 32 [[Rhodes Scholars]] are the second-most for a liberal arts college.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Awards and Fellowships - Institutional Research - Reed College |url=https://www.reed.edu/ir/awards.html |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=www.reed.edu}}</ref> Reed is ranked fourth in the United States for the percentage of its graduates who earn a PhD.<ref name="scholars">{{cite web|url=http://web.reed.edu/ir/awards.html|title=Facts about Reed: Awards and Fellowships|publisher=Reed College|work=Institutional Research|access-date=January 11, 2017}}</ref><ref name="phds">{{cite web | publisher=Reed College Institutional Research | title=Reed College PhD Productivity | url=http://web.reed.edu/ir/phd.html}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Eliot-hall-in-snow.jpg|right|thumb|Reed College's [[Eliot Hall (Reed College)|Eliot Hall]] on a snowy day]]
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).<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=http://web.reed.edu/about_reed/history |title=Mission and History |access-date=December 18, 2007 |work=About Reed |publisher=Reed College}}</ref> Simeon was an entrepreneur involved in several enterprises, including trade on the [[Willamette River|Willamette]] and [[Columbia River]]s 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/march2011/articles/features/dream/amandas_dream3.html|title=Fighting for Amanda's Dream|date=March 2011|website=Reed Magazine|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref> Reed's will provided for the gift,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ingham |first1=Jennifer |last2=Brunette |first2=Sally |last3=Lassleben |first3=Lauren |title=Timeline of Reed College Events (to 1959) |url=https://alumni.reed.edu/oral_hist_timeline.html |website=alumni.reed.edu |publisher=REED College |access-date=3 October 2018 |date=2004}}</ref> and Ladd's son, William Mead Ladd, donated 40 acres from the Ladd Estate Company to build the new college.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Colver |first1=MaryLou |title=Ladd Estate Company |url=https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/ladd_estate_company/#.W7UAFBNKii4 |website=The Oregon Encyclopedia |publisher=Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society | date=17 March 2018|access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://web.reed.edu/alumni/oral_hist_timeline.html |title= Retrieved on 19 December 2007 |publisher=Web.reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/sallyportal/posts/2011/parker-house-featured-on-holiday-tour.html |last1=Barton |first1=Randall S. |title=Parker House Featured on Holiday Tour |journal=Reed Magazine |date=June 2017 |volume=96 |issue=2 |access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref> Reed's first president (1910–1919) was [[William Trufant Foster]], a former professor at [[Bates College]] and [[Bowdoin College]].<ref name=":6" />

Reed was founded explicitly as a reaction against the "prevailing model of East Coast, [[Ivy League]] education", its lack of [[Varsity team|varsity athletics]], [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternities]], and exclusive [[Eating clubs|social clubs]] – as well as its [[coeducational]], [[nonsectarian]], and [[Egalitarianism|egalitarian]] status – intended to foster an intensely academic and intellectual college.<ref name="reaction">{{cite book |title=The Hidden Ivies |last=Greene |first=Howard |author2= Matthew Greene |year=2000 |publisher= [[HarperCollins|HarperCollins Publishers Inc.]] |location=New York |isbn= 0-06-095362-4 |pages= 206–207}}</ref>

During 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.<ref name="reedbook">{{cite book |last1=Sheehy |first1=John |title=Comrades of the Quest |date=2012 |publisher=Oregon State University Press |location=Corvallis, Oregon |isbn=978-0-87071-667-6}}</ref>

After [[World War II]] the college saw its enrollment numbers dramatically increase as veterans began enrolling in the college.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Reed College|url=https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/reed_college/#.YFU0otqSmUk|access-date=2021-03-19|website=www.oregonencyclopedia.org}}</ref>

The college has developed a reputation for the [[Progressivism in the United States|political progressivism]] of its student body.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |title=Most Liberal Colleges {{!}} The Princeton Review |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/?rankings=most-liberal-students |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=www.princetonreview.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Distinguishing features==
[[File:HauserInterior.jpg|thumb|Part of the interior of the [[Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library]]]]
According to [[sociologist]] Burton Clark, Reed is one of the most unusual institutions of higher learning in the United States,<ref name=":6">{{cite book | first = Burton | last = Clark | title= The Distinctive College: Antioch, Reed, Swarthmore | year =1964 | isbn=1-56000-592-0 | publisher = Transaction Publishers | location = New Brunswick, N.J. }}</ref> 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, the Hebrew Bible and [[Jewish history|ancient Jewish history]], and as of 2019, Ancient Mesoamerica and the Harlem Renaissance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reed.edu/humanities/hum110/index.html|title=Reed College {{!}} Humanities 110 {{!}} Home|website=www.reed.edu|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref> Reed also has a [[Reed Research Reactor|TRIGA research reactor]] on campus, making it the only school in the United States to have a [[nuclear reactor]] operated primarily by undergraduates.<ref name="reactor">{{cite web | title = Reed Research Reactor | publisher = Reed College | url = http://reactor.reed.edu/ | access-date = March 27, 2007}}</ref> Reed also requires all students to complete a thesis (a two-semester-long research project conducted under the guidance of professors) during 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.<ref name="ratio">{{cite web|url=https://www.reed.edu/ir/stufacratio.html|title=Reed College Student/Faculty Ratio|publisher=Reed College|access-date=July 9, 2017}}</ref> 

[[File:Cerenkov Effect.jpg|thumb|[[Cherenkov radiation]] at Reed's research reactor]]
Although letter grades are given to students, grades are de-emphasized at Reed and focus is placed on 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."<ref name=":0" /> Students can request copies of their official transcript from the registrar. There is no [[Dean's List|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.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/academic/gbook/acad_pol/eval_student.html |title=Reed College &#124; Guidebook &#124; Evaluation of students |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=June 7, 2014}}</ref> Many Reed students graduate without knowing their cumulative [[Grading in education|GPA]] or their grades in individual classes.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} Reed is singled out as having little to no [[grade inflation]] over the years;<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities |url=https://www.gradeinflation.com/ |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=www.gradeinflation.com}}</ref> only ten students graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA in the period from 1983 to 2012.<ref name="grades">{{cite web | title = Grades at Reed | publisher = Reed College | url = http://www.reed.edu/registrar/pdfs/grades.pdf | access-date = July 29, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140330195527/http://www.reed.edu/registrar/pdfs/grades.pdf | archive-date = March 30, 2014 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}</ref> (Transcripts are accompanied by a card contextualizing Reed's grading approach so as not to penalize students' graduate school applications.)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ruk.ca/article/4794 |title=Retrieved on 13 September 2008 |publisher=Ruk.ca |date=May 28, 2008 |access-date=November 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708195245/http://ruk.ca/article/4794 |archive-date=July 8, 2009 }}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/academic/gbook/acad_pol/awards.html |title=Reed College &#124; Guidebook to Reed &#124; Awards, fellowships and graduate awards |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref>

Reed has no [[fraternities and sororities in North America|fraternities or sororities]] and few [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] sports teams<ref>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 [[University of Oregon]] and other regional schools. See [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19371214&id=aI8RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bOgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5792,1017855 "Oregon Ski Team to meet Huskies", Eugene Register-Guard, December 14, 1937]</ref> although physical education classes (which range from [[kayaking]] to [[juggling]] to [[capoeira]]) are required for graduation. Reed also has several intercollegiate athletic clubs, notably the basketball,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2019/march-madness-zornado-classic.html|title=Young Alumni Drub Olds in Zornado Classic|first=Ethan|last=Gordon ’19|website=Reed Magazine}}</ref> rugby,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/sports_center/sports_clubs/men_rugby.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121216062603/http://www.reed.edu/sports_center/sports_clubs/men_rugby.html|url-status=dead|title=Reed rugby teams|archive-date=December 16, 2012}}</ref> Ultimate Frisbee,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/sports_center/sports_clubs/mens_ultimate_frisbee.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109000406/http://www.reed.edu/sports_center/sports_clubs/mens_ultimate_frisbee.html|url-status=dead|title=Men's ultimate frisbee|archive-date=January 9, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/sports_center/sports_clubs/womens_ultimate_frisbee.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109000726/http://www.reed.edu/sports_center/sports_clubs/womens_ultimate_frisbee.html|url-status=dead|title=Women's ultimate frisbee|archive-date=January 9, 2013}}</ref> and soccer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/sports_center/sports_clubs/mens_soccer.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108172006/http://www.reed.edu/sports_center/sports_clubs/mens_soccer.html|url-status=dead|title=Soccer|archive-date=November 8, 2012}}</ref> teams.

==Academics==
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=reed&s=all&id=209922#programs |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=U.S. Dept of Education |title=Reed College |access-date=August 21, 2024}}</ref>

===Divisions===
[[File:Reed College quad and Paradox at sunset 7 June 2006.jpg|right|thumb|The Reed College campus]]
*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
*Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics: includes the Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics Departments.

===Humanities program===
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,{{nbsp}}... the formal chronological cleavage between the graduate and the undergraduate attitude of mind".<ref>Scholz, Richard F., "Remarks to the Association of American Colleges", 1922.</ref>  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. 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/Hum110/syllabus/syllabus-preview-2010-13.html |title=Humanities 110, Syllabus for 2010–2013 |publisher=Academic.reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926205916/http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/Hum110/syllabus/syllabus-preview-2010-13.html |archive-date=September 26, 2011 }}</ref>

Reed's Humanities program includes the mandatory freshman course ''Introduction to Western Humanities'' covering ancient [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[Ancient Rome|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 [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], the [[French Revolution]], the [[Industrial Revolution]], and [[Modernism]], and/or ''Foundations of Chinese Civilization''. There is also a Humanities Senior Symposium.<ref>{{cite web |title=Humanities 411 |url=https://www.reed.edu/humanities/hum411/index.html |website=reed.edu |access-date=19 January 2021}}</ref>

===Interdisciplinary and dual-degree programs===
Reed also offers interdisciplinary programs in American studies,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/catalog/programs/interdis_majors/amstudies.html |title=American Studies |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Environmental Studies,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://academic.reed.edu/es/ |title=Environmental Studies Interdisciplinary Major |publisher=Academic.reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/catalog/programs/interdis_majors/biochem.html |title=Biochem & Molec Bio interdisc major |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Chemistry-Physics,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/catalog/programs/interdis_majors/chemphys.html |title=Chem-Physics interdisc major |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Classics-Religion,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/catalog/programs/interdis_majors/clasrel.html |title=Classics-Religion Interdisciplinary Major |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Dance/Theatre,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/catalog/programs/interdis_majors/dancethea.html |title=Dance-Theatre Interdisciplinary Major |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> History-Literature,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/catalog/programs/interdis_majors/histlit.html |title=History-Lit interdisc major |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> International and Comparative Policy Studies (ICPS),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/catalog/programs/interdis_majors/icps.html |title=Internat-Compar Policy Studies |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Literature-Theatre,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/catalog/programs/interdis_majors/litthea.html |title=Lit-Theater interdisc major |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Mathematics-Economics,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/catalog/programs/interdis_majors/mathecon.html |title=Math-Econ interdisc major |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> and Mathematics-Physics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/catalog/programs/interdis_majors/mathphys.html |title=Math-Physics interdisc major |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref>

Reed offers [[Double degree|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 the [[Pacific Northwest College of Art]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reed.edu/apply/academics/is_dd_div.html#dual |title=Dual degree program info |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031055405/http://www.reed.edu/apply/academics/is_dd_div.html#dual |archive-date=October 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

===Rankings===
{{See also|Criticism of college and university rankings (North America)}}
{{Infobox US university ranking
<!-- Liberal arts rankings -->| Forbes = 105
| THE_WSJ = 75
| USNWR_LA = 63
| Wamo_LA = 78
}}

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 the rankings in ''U.S. News'' and other popular college guides.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reed.edu/apply/college-rankings.htm |title=Reed and the Rankings Game |last=Lydgate |first=Chris |publisher=Reed College |date=September 12, 2018}}</ref> ''U.S. News'' maintains that their rankings are "a very legitimate tool for getting at a certain level of knowledge about colleges."<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1601839,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123153415/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1601839,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 23, 2007|newspaper=Time|date=March 21, 2001|last=Rawe|first=Julie|title=The College Rankings Revolt}}</ref> 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 the U.S. News scoring rubric.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2019/usnews-discrepancy.html|title=Students Find Glaring Discrepancy in US News Rankings|website=Reed Magazine|language=en-us|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref>

''[[Money (magazine)|Money]]'' magazine ranked Reed 512th in the U.S. out of 623 schools evaluated for its 2022 "Best Colleges for Your Money" edition.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Best Colleges in America of 2022 by Money |url=https://money.com/best-colleges/ |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=Money}}</ref>

Reed is ranked as tied for the 63rd best liberal arts college by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' in its 2025 rankings, and tied for 23rd in "Best Undergraduate Teaching", tied for 23rd in "Most Innovative Schools", and tied for 174th in "Top Performers on Social Mobility".<ref>{{cite web |title=Reed College Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/reed-college-3217/overall-rankings |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref>

In 2006, ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine named Reed as one of twenty-five "New Ivies",<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kantrowitz, Barbara |author2=Springen, Karen | title = America's 25 New Elite 'Ivies' | journal = [[Newsweek]] | url = http://www.newsweek.com/2006/08/20/25-new-ivies.html |date=August 21, 2006 }}</ref> listing it among "the nation's elite colleges". In 2012, ''Newsweek'' ranked Reed the 15th "most rigorous" college in the nation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2012/08/05/college-rankings-2012-most-rigorous-schools-photos.html#slide12|title=College Rankings 2012: Most Rigorous Schools|work=[[The Daily Beast|Daily Beast]]|access-date=July 29, 2013}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2015/10/29-earnings-data-college-scorecard-rothwell |title=Using earnings data to rank colleges: A value-added approach updated with College Scorecard data &#124; Brookings Institution |date=October 29, 2015 }}</ref>

An episode of [[Malcolm Gladwell|Malcolm Gladwell's]] podcast [[Revisionist History (podcast)|Revisionist History]] examines the flaws in the U.S. News system of university rankings.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-07-01|title=Lord of the Rankings - Pushkin|url=https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/lord-of-the-rankings/|access-date=2021-11-29|website=www.pushkin.fm|language=en-US}}</ref> The episode features 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.<ref>{{Citation|last=huayingq1996|title=A True Lie about Reed College: U.S News Ranking|date=2021-09-23|url=https://github.com/huayingq1996/Reed-College-Ranking|access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Students Find Glaring Discrepancy in US News Rankings |url=https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2019/usnews-discrepancy.html |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=Reed Magazine |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Krug |first=Kris |title=The Ominous Cracks in the US News College Ranking System |url=https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2021/rankings-gladwell-usnews.html |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=Reed Magazine |language=en-us}}</ref>

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=== Undergraduate ===
[[File:EliotHallReedCollege.jpg|right|thumb|[[Eliot Hall (Reed College)|Eliot Hall]] in 2007]]

The Class of 2026 had 394 students.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Admission Statistics - Institutional Research - Reed College |url=https://www.reed.edu/ir/admission.html |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=www.reed.edu}}</ref> Median [[SAT]] scores were 690 math and 720 reading. The class 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%.<ref name=":7" /> {{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.<ref name=flyin>{{cite web|url=https://apply.reed.edu/register/discover-reed-fly-in-application|title=Discover Reed Fly-In Application|website=Reed College|access-date=2021-02-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509202946/https://apply.reed.edu/register/discover-reed-fly-in-application|date=2018|archive-date=2019-05-09}}</ref>

===Tuition and finances===
The total direct cost for the 2022–23 academic year, including tuition, fees and room-and-board, was $80,710.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Costs & Financial Aid - Admission - Reed College |url=https://www.reed.edu/apply/costs.html |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=www.reed.edu}}</ref> Indirect costs (books, supplies, transportation, personal expenses) could be another $3,950.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web |last1=College |first1=Reed |title=Reed College {{!}} Admission {{!}} Costs & Financial Aid |url=http://www.reed.edu/apply/costs.html |access-date=14 April 2018 |website=www.reed.edu |language=en-us}}</ref> For the 2022&ndash;23 academic year, the average financial aid package was $52,284.<ref name=":8" /> In 2022–23 over half of students received financial aid from the college.<ref name=":8" /> In 2004, 1.4% of Reed graduates defaulted on their student loans<ref>{{cite web|title=Official Cohort Default Rate |work=U.S. Department of Education |url=http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/CFAPPS/COHORT/cohortdata_detail.cfm?Record_ID=4293&record=1&TOTAL_REC=1 |access-date=April 11, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716145707/http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/CFAPPS/COHORT/cohortdata_detail.cfm?Record_ID=4293&record=1&TOTAL_REC=1 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 }}</ref> –  below the national [[Cohort Default Rate]] average of 5.1%.<ref>{{cite web | title = Cohort Default Rates for Schools | publisher = U.S. Department of Education | url = http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/defaultmanagement/cdr.html | access-date = April 11, 2007}}</ref>

Reed's endowment as of June 30, 2023, was $764 million.<ref name="auto">As of June 30, 2023. {{cite report |title = Reed College Endowment 2023 Report |url=https://www.reed.edu/investments/assets/downloads/endowment-public-report-fy-2023.pdf}}</ref> 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.<ref>Matthew Kish, "Reed College endowment begins to recover", ''Portland Business Journal'', [http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/print-edition/2011/05/27/reed-college-endowment-begins-to-recover.html?page=all May 27, 2011].</ref> By the end of 2013, however, the endowment surpassed the $500 million mark.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2013/11/20/reed-college-endowment-above-500-million.html |url-status=live |archive-date=Dec 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131201120804/http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2013/11/20/reed-college-endowment-above-500-million.html |first=Matthew |last=Kish |title=Reed College endowment bounces back, climbs above $500 million |date=Nov 20, 2013 |website=www.bizjournals.com |language=en |access-date=21 August 2023}}</ref>

===Academic honors===
Reed has produced the second-highest number of [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes scholars]] for any liberal arts college—32—as well as over one hundred [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Scholars]], over seventy [[Watson Fellow]]s, and three [[MacArthur Fellowship|MacArthur ("Genius") Award]] winners.<ref name="scholars" /><ref name="times">{{cite magazine |title=A Thinking Reed |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date =December 28, 1962 |volume=80 |issue=26 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,827962,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120072220/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,827962,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 20, 2008 |access-date= December 18, 2007}}</ref>  A very high proportion of Reed graduates go on to earn PhDs, particularly in 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 College|Harvey Mudd]].<ref name="phds" />  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."<ref name="sascience">{{cite web |url=http://www.reed.edu/news_center/press_releases/2002-2003/489.html |title=NSF Fellowships Go to Reed Senior and Recent Graduates |access-date=December 18, 2007 |year=2002–2003 |work=Press Release |publisher=Reed College}}</ref><ref name="sascience2">{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Chris |date=October 2001 |title=News you can abuse |journal=The University of Chicago Magazine |volume=94 |issue=1 |url= http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0110/features/abuse.html}}</ref>  Reed is ranked first in producing PhDs in [[biology]], second in [[chemistry]] and [[humanities]], third in history, [[foreign language]]s, and [[political science]], fourth in [[science]] and [[mathematics]], fifth in [[physics]] and [[social sciences]], sixth in [[anthropology]], seventh in [[Area studies|area and ethnic studies]] and [[linguistics]], and eighth in [[English literature]] and [[medicine]].<ref name="phds" />

Reed's debating team was awarded the first place sweepstakes trophy for [[NCAA Division II|Division II]] schools at the final tournament of the Northwest Forensics Conference in February 2004.<ref>{{cite web |last1=College |first1=Reed |title=Reed College - Institutional Research {{!}} Distinctions |url=https://www.reed.edu/ir/distinctions.html |website=www.reed.edu |access-date=1 October 2018 |language=en-us}}</ref>

[[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 is not Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, or Stanford. It is the most intellectual college in the country — Reed in Portland, Oregon."<ref name="lpope">{{cite book | last = Pope | first = Loren | title = Colleges That Change Lives | publisher = [[Penguin Books]] |date=July 2006 | page = [https://archive.org/details/collegesthatchan00pope_0/page/354 354]  | isbn = 0-14-303736-6| title-link = Colleges That Change Lives }}</ref>

==Drug use==
Since the 1960s, Reed has had a reputation for tolerating open drug use among its students.<ref>{{cite news | title = Rogue of the Week |work = Willamette Week | date = April 24, 2002  | url= http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-955-the_federal_bureau_of_investigation.html}}</ref> ''[[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."<ref name="yaledaily">{{cite book |title=The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2006 |author=''[[Yale Daily News]]'' staff |edition=32nd |date=July 16, 2005 |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]] |location=New York |isbn= 0-312-34157-1 |page=771}}</ref>

In April 2008, student Alex Lluch died of a [[heroin overdose]] in his on-campus dorm room.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1207621554181530.xml&coll=7|title=Death on campus stuns Reed|last=Bernstein|first=Maxine|date=April 8, 2008|access-date=September 22, 2008|work=The Oregonian}}</ref> His death prompted revelations of several previous incidents, including the near-death heroin overdose of another student only months earlier.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/susan_nielsen/index.ssf?/base/editorial/120796171467460.xml&coll=7|title=Drugs on Campus|last=Nielsen|first=Susan|date=April 13, 2008|work=The Oregonian|access-date=September 22, 2008}}</ref> College President Colin Diver said "I don't honestly know" whether 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."<ref>{{cite news|last=Pitkin|first=James|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-9009-higher_ed.html|title=Higher Ed|date=May 14, 2008|newspaper=[[Willamette Week]]|access-date=January 2, 2013}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite news|title=Inbox|date=May 21, 2008|newspaper=Willamette Week|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-9031-inbox.html|access-date=January 2, 2013}}</ref>

In March 2010, another student died of drug-related causes in his off-campus residence.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/reed_college_rattled_by_second.html | work=The Oregonian | title=Reed College rattled by second student death this month | date=March 23, 2010}}</ref> This led ''[[The New York Times]]'' to conclude that "Reed{{nbsp}}... 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/education/27reed.html |title=Reed College's President Is Told to Crack Down on Campus Drug Use|work= The New York Times|date= April 27, 2010|access-date=July 29, 2013}}</ref><ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/04/college-threatened-with-crack-house-law.html "College Threatened With ‘Crack House’ Law"], ''[[Newsweek]]'', May 4, 2010</ref>

In February 2012, the Reed administration chose to call the police following the discovery of "two to three pounds of marijuana and a small amount of [[MDMA|ecstasy]] and [[LSD]] in the on-campus apartment of two juniors."<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/02/arrest_of_reed_students_on_mar.html|title=Arrest of Reed students on marijuana charges stirs campus debate|work=OregonLive.com|access-date=2018-04-14|language=en-US}}</ref> 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 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."<ref name=":1" />

==Political and social activism==
Reed has a reputation for being politically left-of-center.<ref name=":9" />

During the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy era]] of the 1950s, then-President Duncan Ballantine fired [[Marxism|Marxist]] philosopher [[Stanley Moore (professor)|Stanley Moore]], a tenured professor, for his failure to cooperate with the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) investigation.<ref>{{cite web | author= Schrecker, Ellen | title= Political Tests for Professors: Academic Freedom during the McCarthy Years | work=The University Loyalty Oath | date= October 7, 1999 | url=http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/archives_exhibits/loyaltyoath/symposium/schrecker.html | access-date=April 9, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = History of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest | publisher = Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington | url = http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Pacific%20Northwest%20History/Lessons/Lesson%2023/23.html }}</ref> 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 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."<ref>{{cite news | last=Harmon | first=Rick | title=In the eye of the storm | work=Reed Magazine | date=August 1997 | url= http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/aug1997/index.html | access-date=February 7, 2007 }}</ref>  A statement of "regret" by the Reed administration and Board of Trustees was published in 1981, formally revising 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.<ref>{{cite news | author=Munk, Michael | title=Oregon Tests Academic Freedom in (Cold) Wartime: The Reed College Trustees versus Stanley Moore | work=The Oregon Historical Quarterly | year=1996 }}</ref>

===Reedies Against Racism===
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 the issue of [[Police brutality in the United States|police brutality against African-Americans]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Students hold demonstration on Reed College campus for 'National Day of Boycott'|url=http://katu.com/news/local/students-hold-demonstration-on-reed-college-campus-for-national-day-of-boycott|access-date=24 April 2018|agency=KATU2|date=26 September 2016}}</ref> 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 the class deemed racist by the protestors was the use of the 1978 [[Steve Martin]] song "King Tut" in a discussion about [[cultural appropriation]].<ref name="atlantic">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/11/the-surprising-revolt-at-reed/544682/|title=The surprising revolt at the most liberal college in the country|first=Chris|last=Bodenner|magazine=The Atlantic|date=2017-11-02|access-date=2017-12-01}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Shepherd|first1=Katie|title=What Do Protesting Students At Reed College Want?|url=http://www.wweek.com/news/schools/2017/11/08/what-do-protesting-students-at-reed-college-want/|access-date=24 April 2018|agency=Willamette Week|newspaper=Willamette Week|date=8 November 2017}}</ref> 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 (1999 film)|Boys Don't Cry]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21728688-reed-college-oregon-shows-left-v-left-clashes-can-be-equally-vitriolic-arguments|title=Arguments over free speech on campus are not left v right|newspaper=The Economist|date=2017-09-07|access-date=2017-12-01}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Acker|first1=Lizzy|title=Reed students have been camped out in the president's office for 9 days|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/10/reed_students_have_been_camped.html|access-date=24 April 2018|agency=Oregon Live|publisher=Oregon Live LLC|date=31 October 2017}}</ref>

There was some opposition to the lecture protests, notably by Reed professor of English Lucía Martínez Valdivia, who stated that a protest during her lecture on [[Sappho]] would amplify her pre-existing case of [[PTSD]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/professors-like-me-cant-stay-silent-about-this-extremist-moment-on-campuses/2017/10/27/fd7aded2-b9b0-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html|title=Professors like me can't stay silent about this extremist moment on campus|author=Lucía Martínez Valdivia|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=2017-10-27|access-date=2017-12-01}}</ref> In November 2017, Chris Bodenner of ''[[The Atlantic (magazine)|The Atlantic]]'' wrote about growing student resentment toward the tactics of RAR.<ref name="atlantic" /> 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 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 the time of the announcement.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Richardson|first1=Bradford|title=After protests, Oregon college revises curriculum to include units on Mexico City and Harlem, in addition to Athens and Rome |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/6/reed-college-to-overhaul-eurocentric-western-civil/|access-date=24 April 2018|agency=Washington Times|newspaper=Washington Times|date=6 February 2018}}</ref>

Following "a contentious year of protests, including an anti-racism sit-in in Kroger's office", college president John Kroger resigned, effective June 2018.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Herron |first1=Elise |title=Reed College President John Kroger Stepping Down After Six-Year Tenure |url=https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/02/10/reed-college-president-john-kroger-stepping-down-after-six-year-tenure/ |access-date=3 October 2018 |newspaper=Willamette Week |date=Feb 10, 2018}}</ref>

==Campus==
{{See also|List of Reed College buildings}}
[[File:Reed College Portland OR - OpenStreetMap.png|thumb|right|Map of the Reed College campus]]
[[File:AEDoyle-Master-Plan-1920.png|thumb|right|A. E. Doyle's 1920 Master Plan]]
The Reed College campus was established on a tract of land in southeast [[Portland, Oregon|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 {{convert|116|acre|km2}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=History and Description - Facilities Services - Reed College |url=https://www.reed.edu/facilities_services/history.html |access-date=2024-07-30 |website=www.reed.edu}}</ref> of contiguous land, including 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, Oxford|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 (Reed College)|Eliot Hall]]) are brick [[Tudor style architecture|Tudor Gothic]] buildings in a style similar to [[Ivy League]] campuses. In contrast, the science section of campus, including the physics, biology, and psychology (originally chemistry) buildings, were designed in the [[Modern Architecture|Modernist]] style. The Psychology Building, completed in 1949, was designed by Modernist architect [[Pietro Belluschi]] at the same time as his celebrated [[Equitable Building (Portland)|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 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 the Rivelli farm, a {{convert|1.5|acre|ha|adj=on|lk=out}} 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.reed.edu/news_center/press_releases/2007-2008/press_release.html |title=Reed College press release |publisher=Web.reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref>

===Residence halls===
[[File:OldDormBlockReedCollege.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.25|The [[Old Dorm Block]]]]
Reed houses 945 students in 18 residence halls on campus and several college-owned houses and apartment buildings on or adjacent to campus.<ref name = "Master Plan" /><ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2018/new-dorm-at-reed.html|title=Home Away from Home|website=Reed Magazine|language=en-us|access-date=2018-04-14}}</ref> Residence halls on campus range from 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<ref name="romel">Romel Hernandez, "This New House", [http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/spring2007/features/this_new_house/index.html ''Reed''] (Spring 2007), p. 15.</ref>), 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 a dorm for students interested in outdoors activities (hiking, climbing, bicycling, kayaking, skiing, etc.).<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.reed.edu/res_life/on_campus/theme_dorms.html |title=Reed Theme Residences |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828044018/http://www.reed.edu/res_life/on_campus/theme_dorms.html |archive-date=August 28, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> 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 [[psychiatric hospital|insane asylum]].<ref name="asylum">{{cite web |url=http://web.reed.edu/apply/tour/index.html?welcome_to_campus/foster_scholz_mac.html~mainFrame |title=Foster-Scholz and Macnaughton Residence Halls |access-date=December 18, 2007 |work= Reed Virtual Tour |publisher=Reed College}}</ref> Until 2006, it 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.<ref name = "Master Plan" >{{cite web | title = Campus Facilities Master Plan | publisher = Reed College | url = http://web.reed.edu/campusmasterplan/pdfs/reed_master_plan_approved.pdf }}</ref>  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, the College provides on-campus housing for 838 students".<ref name = "Master Plan" />

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.<ref name="romel" />

Reed also has off-campus housing. Many houses in the [[Woodstock, Portland, Oregon|Woodstock]] and [[Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon|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".<ref name=":2" /> 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%.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hoffmancorp.com/hoffman_opps/reed-college-residence-hall/|title=Hoffman Construction – Reed College Residence Hall|website=www.hoffmancorp.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-14}}</ref> The addition of Trillium guarantees housing for both freshman and sophomores, as students were formerly subjected to a housing lottery after freshman year.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/res_life/seek-housing/returning-student-housing-lottery.html|title=Reed College {{!}} Residence Life {{!}} Returning Student Housing & Lottery|last=College|first=Reed|website=www.reed.edu|language=en-us|access-date=2018-04-14}}</ref> The new building is also designed to meet "LEED Platinum standards", and Reed is currently evaluating proposals to put solar panels on the roof.<ref name=":2" />

===Reed Canyon===
[[File:Blue Bridge at Reed College 2012.JPG|thumb|The eastern half of the Canyon, visible from [[Blue Bridge (Reed College)|Blue Bridge]]]]
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, a [[Spring (hydrosphere)|natural spring]] that drains into [[Johnson Creek (Oregon)|Johnson Creek]].<ref>{{cite news | first = Ben | last = Jacklet | title = One vine at a time | newspaper = Willamette Week | date = June 28, 2005 | url = http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=30595 | access-date = March 26, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070106010059/http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=30595 | archive-date = January 6, 2007 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

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.<ref name="canyon">{{cite web |url= http://web.reed.edu/canyon/cday/history.html |title= Canyon Day History |access-date=February 7, 2011 |work= Reed College Canyon |publisher= Reed College}}</ref>

A landmark of the campus, the [[Blue Bridge (Reed College)|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 – the first time this construction had been used on a span of this size: a straight bridge {{convert|132|ft|m}} long and {{convert|15|ft|m}} high. It attracted great architectural interest during its lifetime".<ref>{{cite web | title = Exploring Reed's Vanished Buildings | publisher = Reed Magazine |date=August 2005 | url = http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/aug2005/features/vanished_buildings/2.html }}</ref>

A new [[Pedestrian Bridge (Reed College)|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, is {{convert|370|ft|m}} 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".<ref name="romel"/>

===Douglas F. Cooley Gallery===
Reed's Cooley Gallery is an internationally recognized contemporary art space located at the entrance to the [[Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library]]. It was established in 1988 as the result of a gift from Susan and Edward Cooley in honor of their late son.<ref name="cooley">{{cite journal |date=February 2001 |title=Trustee Ed Cooley Dies |journal=Reed Magazine |url=http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/Feb2001/columns/NoC/NoC_Cooley.html |access-date= December 18, 2007}}</ref>  The Cooley Gallery has exhibited international artists such as [[Mona Hatoum]], [[Al Held]], [[David Reed (artist)|David Reed]] and [[Gregory Crewdson]] as well as the contemporary art collection of [[Michael Ovitz]].<ref name="collection">{{cite web |url=http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2006/02/new_trajectorie_1.html |title=New Trajectories I: Relocations, at Reed College |access-date=December 18, 2007 |last=Jahn |first=Jeff |date=February 17, 2006 |work=Portland art and reviews  |format=blog}}</ref> 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. The gallery is currently under the directorship of Stephanie Snyder,<ref name="snyder">{{cite web |url=http://www.reed.edu/news_center/press_releases/2006-2007/041607Getty.html |title=Reed College Gallery Curator Stephanie Snyder Receives Getty Research Fellowship |access-date=December 18, 2007 |date=April 26, 2007 |work=News Center |publisher=Reed College}}</ref> who succeeded founding director Susan Fillin-Yeh in 2004.

===Food services===
The cafeteria, known simply as "Commons", has a reputation for ecologically [[sustainable food systems|sustainable food]] services. The commons dining hall is operated by [[Bon Appétit Management Company|Bon Appétit]], and food is purchased on an item-by-item basis. Suiting the student body, [[vegan]] and vegetarian dishes feature heavily on the menu. It is currently the only cafeteria on the small campus, with the exception of Canyon Cafe (formerly Caffe Circo and Caffe Paradiso), a small cafe on the other side of campus which also operated by board points. Scrounging is a long tradition at Reed College allowing students to offer unfinished Commons' food to students without board points from their trays as they are returned to be washed.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2011/articles/apocrypha/traditions_myths_and_legends.html | title=Origin of the Scrounge}}</ref>

The Reed College Co-ops are a theme community that reside in the Farm and Garden Houses, after many years on the first floor of MacNaughton Hall. These are the only campus dorms that are independent of the school's board plan. They traditionally throw an alternative "Thanksgiving" celebration that has sometimes included a square-dance. The Co-ops house students who purchase and prepare food together, sharing chores and conducting weekly, consensus-based meetings. It is a close community valuing sustainability, organic food, consensus-based decisions, self-government, music, and plants.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.reed.edu/res_life/theme-housing/index.html |title=Reed College &#124; House Advisor Search |access-date=February 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215230835/http://www.reed.edu/res_life/theme-housing/index.html |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Aubrey R. Watzek Sports Center Collapse 1.jpg|thumb|The [[Aubrey R. Watzek Sports Center]] the day following its collapse.]]
The Paradox ("Est. in the 80s") is a student-run coffee shop located on campus. In 2003 the Paradox opened a second coffee shop, dubbing it the "Paradox Lost" (an allusion to [[John Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]],'') at the southern end of the biology building, in the space commonly called the "Bio Fishbowl". The new north-campus dorms, which opened in Fall 2008, feature yet another small cafe, originally dubbed "Cafe Paradiso", thereby providing three coffee shops within a {{convert|116|acre|km2|adj=on}} campus. The recent addition of a circus-themed mural to the cafe prompted a name change, and it now operates as Caffe Circo. This third shop is not student-run, but is operated by [[Bon Appétit Management Company|Bon Appétit]]. [[Bon Appétit Management Company|Bon Appétit]] has a monopoly on the food services at Reed as they are the only ones who accept board points; written into their contract is the prohibition of food carts on campus.

=== 2021 collapse of the Aubrey R. Watzek Sports Center ===
On February 15, 2021, the [[Aubrey R. Watzek Sports Center]], collapsed during [[February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm|Winter Storm Uri]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Sports Center Gyms Collapse Following Winter Storm|url=https://reedquest.org/articles/sportscentercollapse|access-date=2021-03-17|website=The Reed College Quest|date=February 26, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref> Both gyms that were part of the sports center collapsed.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last=Baldwin-Sayre|first=Carrie|title=Snowstorm Devastates Sports Center|url=https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2021/snowstorm-sports-center-roof.html|access-date=2021-03-17|website=Reed Magazine|language=en-us}}</ref> The collapse was attributed to excess snow piling up on the roof of the building causing a support truss to fracture, and strained several others, causing the roof to collapse.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /> The sports center was serving as a [[COVID-19]] testing center,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Training, Testing, Health Monitoring & Contact Tracing - COVID-19 Prevention & Response - Reed College|url=https://www.reed.edu/coronavirus/plan/health-testing-tracing.html|access-date=2021-03-17|website=www.reed.edu}}</ref> and the destruction of the testing center resulted in the loss of testing kits and other medical supplies needed for [[COVID-19 testing]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=COVID Corner: Testing Moved to Student Union|url=https://reedquest.org/articles/covid22521|access-date=2021-03-17|website=The Reed College Quest|date=February 26, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Icons and student life==
{|  style="text-align:center; float:right; font-size:85%; margin-left:2em; margin:10px;"  class="wikitable"
|+ ''[[Demographics]] of student body (Fall 2024)''<ref name="Enrollment"/>
|-
! [[African American]]
| 5.0%
|-
! [[Asian American]]
| 15.0%
|-
! Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
| <1.0%
|-
! [[Hispanics in the United States|Hispanic American]] 
| 10.0%
|-
! [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]
| 2.0%
|-
! International
| 9.0%
|-
! [[White American]]
| 57.0%
|-
! Unknown
| 2.0%
|-
! [[Female]]
| 44.0%
|-
! [[Male]]
| 33.0%
|-
! [[Nonbinary]]
| 22.0%
|}

[[File:Portland Pride 2014 - 063.JPG|thumb|Reed College students, faculty, and staff marching in Portland Pride 2014]]

===Griffin===
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 ''[[Divine Comedy|Commedia]]'' the griffin is associated with the [[Tree of the knowledge of good and evil|Tree of Knowledge]]. The griffin was featured on the coat-of-arms of founder Simeon Reed<ref name="coat-of-arms" /> and is now on the official seal of Reed College. Though the school does not have varsity sports, the mascot features prominently throughout campus iconography outside of an athletic context.

===School color===
The official school color of Reed is Richmond Rose.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.reed.edu/apply/tour/index.html?welcome_to_campus/richmond_rose.html~mainFrame |title=Reed Virtual Tour |publisher=Web.reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926205607/http://web.reed.edu/apply/tour/index.html?welcome_to_campus%2Frichmond_rose.html~mainFrame |archive-date=September 26, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Over the years, institutional memory of this fact has faded and the color appearing on the school's publications and merchandise has darkened to a shade of maroon. The most common examples of "Richmond Rose" are the satin tapes securing the degree certificate inside a Reed College diploma.

===School song===
The school song, "Fair Reed", is sung to the tune of the 1912 popular song "[[Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms]]". 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". It was composed by former president [[William Trufant Foster]] shortly after Reed's founding, and is rarely heard today.<ref>{{cite web | first = Robert | last = Reynolds | title = Reed College Alma Mater | publisher = Reed College | url= http://people.reed.edu/~reyn/almamater.html }}</ref>

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.<ref>Spencer Wyant, "Epistemology Forever", ''Reed Magazine,'' [http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/aug1998/news/letters.html August 1998]; Jim Kahan, "The Evolution of ''Epistemology Forever,'' ''Reed Magazine,'' [http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/spring2009/columns/NoAA/evolution.html Spring 2009].</ref>

===Students' nicknames===
Reed students and alumni referred to themselves as "Reedites" in the early years of the college. This term faded out in favor of the now ubiquitous "Reedie" after World War II.<ref name="reeditesreedies">{{cite journal |last=McCarthy |first=Nancy |date=May 1998 |title=A Campus Life |journal=Reed Magazine |url=http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/may1998/campus/index.html |access-date= December 18, 2007}}</ref> Around campus, prospective students are called "prospies".

===Unofficial mottos and folklore===
An unofficial motto of Reed is "Communism, Atheism, Free Love", and can be found in the Reed College Bookstore on sweaters, T-shirts, etc. It was a label that the Reed community claimed from critics during the 1920s as a "tongue-in-cheek slogan" in reference to Reed's [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformism]]. Reed's founding president William T. Foster's outspoken opposition against the entrance of the United States into World War I, as well as the college's support for feminism, its adherence to academic freedom (i.e., inviting a leader of the [[Socialist Party of America]] to speak on campus about the [[Russian Revolution (1917)|Russian Revolution]]’s potential effect on [[militarism]], emancipation of women, and ending the persecution of Jews), and its [[nonsectarian]] status made the college a natural target for what was originally meant to be a pejorative slur.<ref name="cafl">{{cite journal |last=Sheehy |first=John P. |date=Summer 2007 |title=What's so funny about communism, atheism, and free love? |journal=Reed Magazine |url=http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/summer2007/features/C_A_FL/7.html |access-date= December 18, 2007}}</ref><ref name="caflquote">{{cite journal |date=Summer 2007 |title=Ripped from the Archives: All you need is communism, atheism, and free love |journal=Reed Magazine |url=http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/summer2007/features/C_A_FL/8.html |access-date= December 18, 2007}}</ref>
[[File:ReedCollege-FauxSeal-bw.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Faux Reed Seal]]
The faux Reed Seal has changed over the years. In its original form the griffin was holding a hammer and sickle in its paws. Later versions had the griffin wearing boxing gloves.

One of the unofficial symbols of Reed is the [[Doyle Owl]], a roughly {{convert|280|lb|kg|adj=on}} concrete statue that has been continuously stolen and re-stolen since about 1919. 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). The on-campus folklore of events surrounding the Doyle Owl is sufficiently large that, in 1983, a senior thesis was written on the topic of the Owl's [[oral history]]. The original Doyle Owl was destroyed many years ago; the current avatar is Doyle Owl number 13, plus or minus 11.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2011/articles/features/almanac/almanac1.html|title=The New (Olde) Reed Almanac|website=Reed Magazine}}</ref>  At the present time only one Owl is being shown.<ref>[http://www.reed.edu/apply/about_reed/doyleowl.html Admission/The Doyle Owl.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509001544/http://www.reed.edu/apply/about_reed/doyleowl.html |date=May 9, 2014 }} [retrieved from Reed College website, 3 September 2012]</ref><ref>[http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2011/articles/features/jobs/jobs.html This article has a photo of Steve Jobs with the Doyle Owl][retrieved 17 September 2013]</ref>

===Paideia===
Each January, before the beginning of second-semester classes, the campus holds an interim period called [[Paideia]] (drawn from the Greek, meaning 'education').<ref name="reed.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/apply/student_life/favorite_traditions.html |title=Reed College &#124; Admission &#124; Reed College Admission Office |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Originally conceived and approved by the faculty in 1968 for unstructured independent study, or "UIS", Paideia ran for the full month of January from 1969 to 1981, supervised by a committee of faculty, staff and students.<ref name="Quest27jan12">{{Citation  | last = Massey  | first = Sammie  | title = Ghosts of Paideia's Past  | pages = 1, 5  | newspaper = The Quest  | location = Reed College, Portland OR  | date = January 27, 2012  | url = http://www.reedquest.org/2012/01/ghosts-of-paideias-past/  | access-date = January 29, 2012  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130101182529/http://www.reedquest.org/2012/01/ghosts-of-paideias-past/  | archive-date = January 1, 2013  | url-status = dead  | df = mdy-all  }}</ref> 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. The classes are intended to be informal, yet intellectual activities free of the usual academic pressure endemic to Reed.<ref name="reed.edu"/> 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 [[gnome]]s, includes some content relating to the construction of pre-Christian [[monolith]]s). More structured classes (such as martial arts seminars and mini-classes on obscure academic topics), tournaments, and film festivals round out the schedule, which is different every year. The objective of Paideia is not only to learn new (possibly non-useful) things, but to turn the tables on students and encourage them to teach.

In his 2005 Stanford commencement lecture, [[Apple Inc.]] founder and Reed [[dropping out|dropout]] [[Steve Jobs]] credited a Reed [[calligraphy]] class taught by [[Robert Palladino]] for his focus on choosing quality typefaces for the [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]].<ref>{{cite web |author= Jobs, Steve | title= Commencement Address | work=Stanford Report | date=June 14, 2005 | url=http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html | access-date=April 9, 2006}}</ref> While the full calligraphy course<ref>{{cite web | url = http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/aug2003/features/dance_of_pen/ | title = The Dance of the Pen | access-date = October 6, 2011 | last = Schwartz | first = Todd | date = August 2003 | work = Reed Magazine | publisher = Reed College}}</ref> is no longer taught at Reed, Paideia usually features a short course on the subject in addition to the informal, weekly gatherings (currently held every Thursday night) of aspiring calligraphy enthusiasts.

===Renn Fayre===
{{Main|Renn Fayre}}

Renn Fayre is an annual three-day celebration with a different theme each year. 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. The event is initiated by a procession of seniors throwing their thesis notes in a large bonfire after the completed theses are submitted.

===Reed Arts Week===
{{Main|Reed Arts Week}}
Reed Arts Week is a week-long celebration of the arts at Reed. It features music, dance, film, creative writing, and the visual arts.

===Student organizations===
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. The fee underwrites publication of the student newspaper and extracurricular activities, and partially supports the student union and ski cabin."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.reed.edu/catalog/admission/costs.html |title=College Catalog – Reed College |publisher=Web.reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref>
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. The funding poll uses a voting system in which each organization provides a description that is ranked by each member of the student body with either 'top six,' 'approve,' 'no opinion,' 'disapprove.' A former 'deep six' was eliminated from the system in 2019. These ranks are then tabulated by assigning numbers to each rank and summing across all voters.<ref>For more information, see [http://web.reed.edu/community/SB/senate/signators/sectiontwo.html Signators' Handbook] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214063243/http://web.reed.edu/community/SB/senate/signators/sectiontwo.html |date=February 14, 2012}}</ref> Afterwards, the top forty organizations present their budgets to the student body senate during Funding Circus. The following day the senate makes decisions about each budget in a process called Funding Hell.

The school's student-run newspaper, ''The Reed College Quest ''or simply the ''Quest,'' has been published since 1913, and its radio station KRRC had been broadcasting, with a few interruptions, from 1955<ref name=reedmag>{{cite news |title=KRRC: The (barely audible) voice of Reed College |first=Patti |last=MacRae |work=Reed Magazine |date=August 2002 |url=http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/aug2002/features/KRRC/index.html}}</ref><ref name=studmedia>{{cite web |url=http://www.reed.edu/student_activities/student_media.html |title=Reed College: Student media |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129122738/http://reed.edu/student_activities/student_media.html |archive-date=November 29, 2011 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The station now broadcasts online only at krrc.fm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://krrc.fm/|title=KRRC|publisher=KRRC}}</ref>

Although some student organizations partnered with outside groups such as [[Oxfam]] or [[Planned Parenthood]] are more structured, most student organizations are highly informal. There is no formal process for forming a student organization at Reed; a group of students (or a single student) announcing themselves as or just considering themselves a student organization is enough, but groups that desire funding from the school's Student Activities office or Student Body Fees must register with Student Activities or through the Student Senate. The Reed archive of comic books and [[graphic novel]]s, the MLLL (Comic Book Reading Room), is well into its fourth decade, and Beer Nation, the student group that organizes and manages various [[beer garden]]s throughout the year and during [[Renn Fayre]], has existed for many years. Some organizations, such as the Motorized Couch Collective—dedicated to installing motors and wheels into furniture—have become more Reed myth than reality in recent years.<ref>{{citation|author=Reed Student Senate|publisher=Reed College Quest|title=Spring 2006 Funding Poll|date=April 20, 2006}}</ref>

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.<ref name="sports">{{cite web |url=http://web.reed.edu/sports_center/ |title=Sports Center |access-date=December 18, 2007 |publisher= Reed College}}</ref>

===Crime===
According to a ''[[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]'' analysis of federal campus safety data from 2014, Reed College had 12.9 reports of rape per 1,000 students, the "highest total of reports of rape" per 1,000 students of any college in the nation on its main campus.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/06/07/these-colleges-have-the-most-reports-of-rape/|title=These colleges have the most reports of rape|newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref>

In 2012, Reed College had the third highest reported sexual assault rate among U.S. colleges and universities. 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/how_sexual_assault_rates_compa.html |title=How sexual assault rates compare among Oregon's colleges &#124; OregonLive.com |date=July 2, 2014 }}</ref>  in 2013 there were 19 reported forcible sexual offenses among the approximately 1,400 students at the college.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=reed+college&s=all&id=209922|title=College Navigator - Reed College|website=nces.ed.gov}}</ref> In 2011, a student member of Reed's Judicial Board resigned over the college's handling of sexual assault cases. An investigation by the [[Center for Public Integrity]] found that those found responsible in cases of sexual assault frequently faced few consequences, while the lives of the victims were left in turmoil.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/04/reed_college_gripped_by_debate.html |title=Reed College embroiled in debate about sexual assaults &#124; OregonLive.com |date=April 4, 2011 }}</ref>

==Notable people== <!-- include just a few examples from the main list-->
{{Main|List of Reed College people}}<gallery class="center">
File:Steve Jobs Headshot 2010-CROP.jpg|[[Steve Jobs]], founder of [[Apple Inc.]]
File:Larry Sanger cropped.jpg|[[Larry Sanger]], co-founder of [[Wikipedia]]
File:Gary Snyder, 2007 (cropped).jpg|[[Gary Snyder]], poet
File:Richard Danzig, official Navy photo.jpg|[[Richard Danzig]], 71st [[United States Secretary of the Navy|U.S. Secretary of the Navy]]
File:Suzan DelBene, official portrait, 115th Congress.jpg|[[Suzan DelBene]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
File:Richard L. Hanna 113th Congress.jpg|[[Richard L. Hanna]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[New York (state)|New York]]
File:Hope Lange 1957.jpg|[[Hope Lange]], [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-nominated actress
File:James Beard.jpg|[[James Beard]], chef and television personality
File:Arlene Blum 1977 003.jpg|[[Arlene Blum]], mountaineer
File:Emilio Pucci.jpg|[[Emilio Pucci]], fashion designer
</gallery>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 (educator)|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).

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]].

Notable Reed faculty of the past and present include former U.S. Senator from Illinois [[Paul Douglas (Illinois politician)|Paul Douglas]], and physicists [[Richard Crandall]] and  [[David Griffiths (physicist)|David Griffiths]].

== In popular culture ==
Reed has been featured in several books and movies. It is often presented as an enigmatic, eccentric institution at which people who do not fit into mainstream society come together to learn.

=== Literature ===
* ''[[Blue Like Jazz]]'' (2003) by [[Donald Miller (author)|Donald Miller]] is a semi-autobiographical account of the author's life, and details the author's encounters with other Reed students while auditing classes there in the early 2000s.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Challies|first=Tim|date=April 27, 2014|title=The Bestsellers: Blue Like Jazz {{!}} Tim Challies|url=https://www.challies.com/articles/the-bestsellers-blue-like-jazz/|access-date=2021-03-14|website=www.challies.com/}}</ref>
* ''The Other'' (2008) by [[David Guterson]] depicts a Reed College student who drops out after his freshman year to live a solitary life in the [[Olympic Mountains]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Reed in Fiction|url=http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/june2012/articles/web_special/reed_fiction.html|access-date=2021-03-14|website=Reed Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Barcott|first=Bruce|date=2008-06-15|title=Into the Woods (Published 2008)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/books/review/Barcott-t.html|access-date=2021-03-14|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* ''[[Steve Jobs (book)|Steve Jobs]]'' (2011) by [[Walter Isaacson]] is a biography commissioned by [[Steve Jobs]], a Reed College dropout, and contains a chapter on Jobs's experience attending Reed College.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson — Summary – Karlbooklover|url=https://www.karlbooklover.com/steve-jobs-by-walter-isaacson-summary/|access-date=2021-03-14|website=www.karlbooklover.com}}</ref>

=== Film ===
The Reed College campus has been the set of several motion pictures since 1977.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Oregonian/OregonLive|first=Jeff Baker {{!}} The|date=2014-07-01|title=5 movies filmed at Reed College; four are failures, one is great|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2014/07/5_movies_filmed_at_reed_colleg.html|access-date=2021-03-14|website=oregonlive|language=en}}</ref>

* ''[[The Possessed (1977 film)|The Possessed]]'' (1977) is a [[Television film|made-for-television]] [[horror film]] that follows an undead priest who fights demonic forces at a [[women's college]] in [[Salem, Oregon]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=DVD Talk|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/52637/possessed-1977-the/|access-date=2021-03-14|website=www.dvdtalk.com}}</ref>
* ''[[First Love (1977 film)|First Love]]'' (1977) depicts a love story between a male [[College soccer in the United States|college soccer]] player and an attractive female student who is loved by another man.<ref name=":3" />
* ''[[Feast of Love]]'' (2007) depicts the story of a group of friends who live in [[Portland, Oregon]], the film is composed of [[Vignette (literature)|vignettes]], some of which were filmed on the Reed College campus.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=1977-11-15|title=Clipped From Statesman Journal|pages=10|work=Statesman Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44224594/statesman-journal/|access-date=2021-03-14}}</ref>
* ''[[Into the Wild (film)|Into the Wild]]'' (2007) is an adaptation of the [[Jon Krakauer]] book of the [[Into the Wild (Krakauer book)|same name]] published in 1996, Reed College was used as a stand in during some scenes for [[Emory University]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Singh|first=Prerna|date=2020-12-31|title=Where Was Into the Wild Filmed? All Into the Wild Movie Filming Locations|url=https://thecinemaholic.com/where-was-into-the-wild-filmed-2/|access-date=2021-03-14|website=The Cinemaholic|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Blue Like Jazz (film)|''Blue Like Jazz'']] (2012) is the film adaptation of the [[Blue Like Jazz|book]] by [[Donald Miller (author)|Donald Miller]]; the film is set and partially filmed at Reed College. The film follows the story of a religiously disillusioned Texan native who moves to the progressive Pacific Northwest to attend Reed College.<ref>{{Citation|title=Blue Like Jazz (2012) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758575/plotsummary|access-date=2021-03-14}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Reed College people]]
* [[List of Reed College buildings]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=Sheehy |first=John |title=Comrades of the Quest: An Oral History of Reed College |publisher=Oregon State University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0870716676}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |first1=John |last1=Sheehy |first2=Gay |last2=Walker |url=http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/reed_college/#.U3uFnSiorqw |title=Reed College |encyclopedia=The Oregon Encyclopedia |publisher=Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society |access-date=2015-04-14}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Reed College}}
* {{official website|http://www.reed.edu/}}

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