The Telluride Association is a non-profit organization in the United States that provides young people with free educational programs emphasizing intellectual curiosity, democratic self-governance, and social responsibility. Students are invited to apply based on academic criteria, such as high standardized test scores. The Association's principal programs are summer seminars for high school students, called TASSes and TASPs, and scholarship houses, called Telluride Houses, for college students. These residential programs are offered at no cost to the students, who are encouraged to pay for their education through service to society. The Association is run largely by its recent alumni and current students. A non-profit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes, without concern for monetary profit. ...

History

Lucien L. Nunn founded the Association in 1911 after building the first Telluride House at Cornell University in 1910. The first President of the Telluride Association was Charles Walcott, the famous paleontologist and fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The house originally provided room and board for young men who had worked for Nunn and were studying engineering at Cornell. It has since expanded to encompass a variety of summer programs, scholarships, and additional houses, all coeducational. The association is named after the town of Telluride, Colorado where L.L. Nunn resided for much of his adult life. In Lucien Lucius Nunn, an uncommonly high moral standard and diminutive physical stature met a demonic will to achieve. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... “Cornell” redirects here. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Charles Doolittle Walcott (March 31, 1850 _ February 9, 1927) was an eminent American invertebrate paleontologist. ... The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ...

Programs

Telluride Association seeks out young people with the desire and the ability to contribute to society, and helps them develop intellectually and as community members. Telluride Association promotes no particular political or religious viewpoint.

Telluride Houses, or Branches, have operated at Cornell University since 1911 and at the University of Michigan since 1999. Each house is populated by a diverse group of graduate students and undergraduates who share an interest in self-governance and intellectual community. Students participate in a year-round public speaking program and plan academic seminars. The houses are largely self-governed, with somewhat different focuses: residents of Cornell Branch take on such responsibilities such as hiring employees and maintaining and renovating the house, while residents of Michigan Branch plan and execute an annual project linking practical work in the community with theoretical and academic inquiry. A handful of faculty also live at the houses for limited terms. Distinguished faculty guests of the Cornell Branch have included Michel Foucault, Richard Feynman, Frances Perkins, Linus Pauling, and Allan Bloom. “Cornell” redirects here. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan, and one of the foremost universities in the United States. ... This article is about the year. ... Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: ) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. ... This article is about the physicist. ... Frances Coralie Fannie Perkins (April 10, 1882 – May 14, 1965) was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first female cabinet member. ... Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. ... Allan Blooms translation and interpretation, Second edition 1991. ...

Telluride Houses have formerly existed in Pasadena, California, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...

Telluride Association Summer Programs, or TASPs, are six-week educational experiences for rising high school seniors offering intellectual challenges rarely found in secondary school or even in college. They are designed to bring together young people from around the world who share a passion for learning. The participants, or TASPers, attend an intensive seminar led by college and university faculty members and participate in many educational and social activities outside the classroom. Like the Telluride houses, each TASP receives a discretionary budget, whose use is democratically distributed via weekly house meetings

Admission to TASP is based on an application that includes six essay prompts and for some, an interview. Out of approximately 950 applicants, about 180 are given an interview with members or associates of the Telluride Association as well as TASP alumni. Admission is very competitive: in recent years, fewer than 10 percent of TASP applicants have been admitted. A total of 86 students are admitted to the five TASPs. Many students are invited to apply based on strong standardized test scores or the nomination of educators who are familiar with TASP. However, any high school junior may request an application, and acceptance largely ignores standardized test scores and graded academic performance. Like other Telluride programs, TASPs are free.

Since the first TASP was held in 1954, TASPs have been held at college and university campuses across the United States. Nationally known faculty who have taught TASP include: John Schaar (UC Santa Cruz), Hanna Pitkin (UC Berkeley), Donald Kagan (Yale), Kurt Heinzelman and Sue Heinzelman (University of Texas), Herbert Storing (University of Chicago), Robert Nozick (Harvard), Leon Kass (University of Chicago), and Thomas Palaima (University of Texas). Alumni of TASPs and Telluride Houses include political economist Francis Fukuyama, literary critic Gayatri Spivak, political theorist William Galston, former Stanford Law dean Kathleen Sullivan, Nobel laureate in physics Steven Weinberg, literary critic Paul Wang, and former World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz. Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Schaar is a scholar and political theorist. ... Hanna Fenichel Pitkin is a political theorist. ... Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. ... Herbert J. Storing (1928-1977) was a noted professor of Constitutional History and Law, the Federalist Papers, and, most notably, the Anti-Federalists, in which he was considered the foremost authority. ... Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. ... Leon Kass Leon Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago (currently on leave). ... Thomas G. Palaima (born October 6, 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio), is a Mycenologist, the Raymond F. Dickson Centennial Professor and the founding director of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. ... Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (b. ... Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a deconstructive literary critic and theorist of Indian extraction. ... William Galston is the current Saul I Stern Professor of Civic Engagement and the director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. ... Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto, California in Silicon Valley. ... Kathleen M. Sullivan (born August 20, 1955), scholar in constitutional law, is a professor at Stanford Law School and currently practices law at Quinn Emanuel Urquart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, a California law firm. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ), as designated in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, are awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. ... Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ... The World Bank (the Bank), a part of the World Bank Group (WBG), was formally established on December 27, 1945, following the ratification of the Bretton Woods agreement. ... Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships. ...

Telluride Association Sophomore Seminars, or TASSes, are also six-week summer programs. TASSes, which are offered to high school sophomores, have an academic focus on African American studies and related fields. Their basic plan is similar to that of the TASPs, and some TASS alumni choose to attend a TASP the following summer. African American studies, or Black studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans. ...

TASSes have been held at Indiana University since 1993 and at the University of Michigan since 2002. Indiana University is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan, and one of the foremost universities in the United States. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ...

Awards

Telluride Association Awards are awarded to members of the Telluride community by the Association.

The Mansfield-Wefald Senior Thesis Prize is awarded annually for the best scholarly thesis written by a Telluride associate who will have completed his or her final year of undergraduate education that year.

The Mike Yarrow Adventurous Education Award is given annually to a returning member of a Branch of Telluride Association, or a Deep Springs student who will be entering a Branch the following year. The award funds non-paying, public service activity during the summer that is outside of an academic institution. Deep Springs is a private, all-male, alternative college located in Deep Springs, California, in the United States. ...

The Nunn Archive Fellowship is awarded to help associates study and preserve the legacy of Lucien L. Nunn. In Lucien Lucius Nunn, an uncommonly high moral standard and diminutive physical stature met a demonic will to achieve. ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, the Telluride House at Cornell operated a two-year postgraduate exchange scholarship program with Lincoln College, Oxford, welcoming a Sidgwick Scholar to stay at Telluride House and to study at Cornell, usually for an M.A., and sending a Housemember to study for an Oxford M.Phil while resident at Lincoln College. Despite the best efforts of both sides, the program was ended in 2002. College name Lincoln College Named after Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln Established 1427 Sister college Downing College, Cambridge Rector Prof. ...

Membership

Telluride Association consists of about 100 volunteer members. Members are elected to membership, usually while in their early twenties, on the basis of demonstrated leadership and commitment to Telluride's educational goals. The Association’s membership is comprised mainly of current and former participants of its programs and alumni of Deep Springs College, a separate two-year college founded by Nunn in 1917. Deep Springs is a private, all-male, alternative college located in Deep Springs, California, in the United States. ... In Lucien Lucius Nunn, an uncommonly high moral standard and diminutive physical stature met a demonic will to achieve. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ...

See also

• Deep Springs College

Deep Springs is a private, all-male, alternative college located in Deep Springs, California, in the United States. ...

External links

• Telluride Association, official website
• Michigan Branch of the Telluride Association, official website
• Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association, official website