Reed College
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| Type | Private liberal arts college |
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| Established | 1908 |
| Endowment | $496.6 million (2016) |
| President | John Kroger |
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Academic staff
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135 |
| Students | 1,394 (Fall 2014) |
| Undergraduates | 1,374 (Fall 2014) |
| Postgraduates | 20 (Fall 2014) |
| Location |
Portland, Oregon, United States 45°29′N 122°38′W / 45.48°N 122.63°WCoordinates: 45°29′N 122°38′W / 45.48°N 122.63°W |
| Campus | Suburban, 116 acres (470,000 m²) |
| Colors | Reed Red |
| Mascot | Griffin |
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| Website | reed.edu |
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| University rankings | |
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| National | |
| Forbes | 52 |
| Liberal arts colleges | |
| U.S. News & World Report | 93 |
| Washington Monthly | 78 |
Reed College is a private liberal arts college in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon nature preserve at its center.
Reed is known for its mandatory freshman humanities program, required senior-year thesis, and the unusually high proportion of graduates who go on to earn doctorates and other postgraduate degrees. The college has many prominent alumni, including over 90 Fulbright Scholars, 67 Watson Fellows, 3 MacArthur Fellows, and 32 Rhodes Scholars—the second-highest number of any liberal arts college.
The Reed Institute (the legal name of the college) was founded in 1908, and held its first classes in 1911. Reed is named for Oregon pioneers Simeon Gannett Reed (1830–1895) and Amanda Reed (died 1904). Simeon was an entrepreneur in trade on the Columbia River. Unitarian minister Thomas Lamb Eliot, who knew the Reeds from the church choir, is credited with convincing Reed of the need for "a lasting legacy, a 'Reed Institute of Lectures,' and joked it would 'need a mine to run it.' " Reed's will suggested his wife could "devote some portion of my estate to benevolent objects, or to the cultivation, illustration, or development of the fine arts in the city of Portland, or to some other suitable purpose, which shall be of permanent value and contribute to the beauty of the city and to the intelligence, prosperity, and happiness of the inhabitants". Reed's first president (1910–1919) was William Trufant Foster, a former professor at Bates College and Bowdoin College in Maine.
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