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August 21, 2004

In 1917, two radical social utopias were born ... only one survives

I thought readers might find the details about Deep Spring College interesting. It is located in the high California desert, has a student body of 26, offers a full $50,000 bursary to each student, has an average class size of 4, the students must work 20 hours per week on either the college's 300 head cattle ranch or 152 acre alfalfa farm, and after earning a 2 year Associate's Degree half of the students transfer to Harvard, Brown and Chicago while the remaining students make their way to Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, Wesleyan and Oxford. Two thirds of graduates earn graduate degrees and over half of the students earn a doctorate.

Here is the official site. Here is a modest photo-essay about the College. Here is another photo-essay with follow-on links.

There is a t-shirt sold on campus that has a picture of Lenin alongside Nunn, the founder of Deep Springs, and a caption that reads "In 1917, two radical social utopias were born ... only one survives."

Posted by TangoMan at 06:53 PM