Reed College

Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland Oregon. Reed was begun in 1908 and had its first classes in 1911. Reed is an undergraduate school. An unusually high number of Reed's students go on to get Ph.D.s after they graduate. Reed is the only private undergraduate school to have a nuclear reactor.

Reed College

A picture of Hauser Library, a part of Reed College
Established	1908
Endowment	$500,000,000[1]
President	John R. Kroger
Dean	Nigel Nicholson
Academic staff	Approximately 170 (2024)[2]
Undergraduates	1,524 (2024)[2]
Location	Portland , Oregon , United States
Mascot	Griffin
Website	http://www.reed.edu/

Tuition at Reed is $69,040 for the 2024-2025 school-year. This does not include housing, books, or other expenses.^[3] Reed is secular, meaning the school is not part of a religion. The school does not do very many NCAA sports, and it does not have any fraternities or sororities.

Reed students are called "Reedies". Students are often called nonconformists. As a joke, some students say the motto of the school is "Communism, Atheism, Free Love".

People

Some famous or important people who went to Reed include:

• James Beard - Chef, cookbook author, teacher and television personality^[4]
• Bud Clark - Mayor of Portland from 1985 to 1992.^[5]
• Richard Danzig - 71st United States Secretary of the Navy
• Suzan DelBene - United States representative from Washington's 1st congressional district since 2012.^[6]
• Richard L. Hanna - A United States representative from New York from 2011 to 2017.^[7]
• Steve Jobs - Helped start Apple Inc. and Pixar
• Hope Lange - Actress who won an Emmy Award
• Larry Sanger - Helped start Wikipedia