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Unique Colleges
Le s s a S c h e r re rYo u r C o l l e g e Yo u r Wa y
For Unconventional Students
The Work Colleges
Pa y f o r c o l l e g e w i t h s w e a t e q u i t y
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-Dennis Jacobs P ro jec t D i rec to r , Work Co l l eges Conso r t ium
Work is not just career development, not just educational, not just an opportunity to provide service, but it is all of these things.
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Deep Springs College
Learn on a working cattle ranch
in Dyer, NV
-Deep Springs Student quoted in Cool Col leges by Donald Asher
You’re not going to show a picture of a guy on a horse, are you?
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Other Work Colleges
*Al ice Lloyd Col lege, Pippa Passes, KY*Berea Col lege, Berea, KY
Blackburn Col lege, Carl invi l le, IL*Col lege of the Ozarks, Pt. Lookout,
MOGoddard Col lege, Plainfi eld, VT
Sterl ing Col lege, Craftsbury Common, VT
Warren Wilson Col lege, Ashevi l le, NC
Go Grade Free
G PA ? W h a t G PA ?
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Reed CollegePortland, OR
So much glorious
weirdness,
so l i tt le t ime
Students burn drafts of their thesis during thesis paradeReed College/Leah Nash
My high school guidance counselor told me about Reed and it became the light at the end of my tunnel. The first time I visited Reed with my parents, we drove into Eliot Circle, the cherry trees were in bloom, and I started sobbing. My mother said, “Is everything okay?” and I said, “It’s perfect. It’s beautiful here. It’s everything I thought college should look like. ~Adrien Schless-Meier ‘12
-Auden Lincoln-Vogel Reed C lass o f 2013
…There were times when I actively felt the way I think changing.
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Evergreen State College
OMNIA EXTARES!
(Let it al l hang out)
-Cel i Tamayo-Lee Eve rg reen C lass o f ‘ 14
People come here wanting to figure out ways they can be most useful in society.
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Take One Class at a
Time
I n t e n s e f o c u s , g re a t re s u l t s
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Colorado College,Colorado Springs
Block plan, with lots of
travel
The Film Studies department’s block-in-Hollywood students enjoy their moment in the spotlight.
Photo credit: Colorado College
Instead of jumping on the MOOC bandwagon, we aim to be SSIP (Selective, Small, Immersive and Personal…. Yes, we just made that up).
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Cornell College,Cornell, IA
Not Cornel l University
-Loren Pope Co l l eges That Change L ives
It produces much more than its share of writers, scholars and executives.
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Cornell Rams fans celebrate the men’s basketball team’s first home basket of the year against rival Coe College by filling the court with toilet paper streamers.
Photo courtesy CornellCollege.com
Other colleges that follow a block plan
Tusculum
Col lege,
Greenevi l le, TN
Prescott
Col lege*,
Prescott, AZ
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Study the Great Books
S t u d y l i ke i t s 1 1 9 9 , A . D .
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St. John’s CollegeAnnapolis/Santa Fe
From ancient Greek to
modern French
Days Hours Fresh Soph Jr Sr
3 1 Lang Lang Lang Lang
2 3 Lab Lab Lab
3 1.5 Math Math Math Math
1 6 Music Music
2 2 Sem Sem Sem Sem
- Janet S t . J ohn ’ s ‘ 18
We read The Bible like it’s any other book, and we read every other book like it’s The Bible.
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Other schools who teach the Great Books
Shimer, Thomas Aquinas and Sir
Thomas More Col leges
Reed Col lege and University of
Chicago
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Support for Learning
Differences
H e l p t o g e t t h ro u g h
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University of Denver
Learning Eff ectiveness
Program
Landmark CollegePutney, VT
Pioneering col lege-level
programs for dyslexia, ADHD
and autism
-McKenzie Landmark Co l l ege s tuden t
It was a total relief to find someplace so accepting.
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“Albert Einstein had a learning disability and he did great things because he looked at things differently. Landmark helps us to realize our potential and our strengths.”
~ Tino, Landmark College student
Other schools with special learning programs include:
University of Arizona - SALTBeacon College-dedicated to LDs
Curry College – PAL (2e)UC-Colorado Springs (flex hours)Augsberg College – CLASS (free!)
Uconn – BOLDUniversity of Iowa – REACH (career
development for cognitive disabilities)
Early College Programs
W h a t ’ s t h i s s e c t i o n a b o u t ?
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Bard College at Simon’s Rock
The First Early Col lege
Program
Mary Baldwin College
Program for the
Exceptional ly Gifted
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