[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Pages 234-235]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              REED COLLEGE

 Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, with great pride I wish to 
congratulate Reed

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College in Portland, OR, on its 100 years of delivering excellent 
higher education. Reed College has consistently demonstrated its 
devotion to academia and to developing the intellectual spirit of its 
students through demanding curricula, insightful research and 
stimulating classroom conversation. I am certain that the next century 
will prove to be as fruitful as the last for Reed and its students and 
that the strong academic tradition will continue to thrive in the 
Eastmoreland neighborhood of Portland.
  Reed's story is much like the city of Portland's. The founders of 
Reed wanted to approach higher education differently. They wanted to 
focus on creating leaders who think outside the box and who know that 
the answers of the past are not necessarily the answers of the future. 
Reed has put an emphasis on the progress of the individual student, 
emphasizing intellectual development over the pursuit of grades.
  Colleges and universities like Reed allow people to continue their 
pursuit of knowledge, to debate problems and to develop ideas. Higher 
education is also a driving force behind social mobility and has broken 
down divisions of race, religion, gender and socio-economic class. Reed 
College embraces this mission, as reflected in the small class sizes 
filled with diverse students.
  One hundred years of commitment to liberal arts education has 
produced 31 Rhodes Scholars, a great number of Fulbright grant 
recipients and countless well-educated members of the Oregon community 
and our Nation. To Colin Diver, the President of Reed College, and to 
the faculty and students of Reed: congratulations on a century of 
academic excellence.

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