Definitely Grinnell: Putting up the resources to support the rhetoric
https://www.grinnell.edu/about/social-justice
https://www.grinnell.edu/grinnellprize
Definitely not preppy. Great financial and merit aid. Huge endowment resulting in beautiful facilities, small class sizes and generous grants to support student initiatives. A Grinnell-in-Washington semester which includes an internship.
It’s sort of funny to hear a student talk about schools where social justice and related activities are a focus, yet delineates the schools on something as irrelevant as dress.
It reminds me of the interview with Mother Theresa where she got a chair, a starving infant and a bottle of formula, and told the interviewer it was time to work rather than talk.
OP, you do know they allow smoking on all these campuses, right?
@“Erin’s Dad” , having visited Bard, and having had my son similarly turned off by the clusters of kids smoking outside many buildings, I’ll attest to the fact that it’s at a different level there than any of the many other LACs I’ve visited. And @TurnerT, sure, dress is a pretty superficial metric by which to judge a student body, but heck, doesn’t whether or not a college feels “right” or “like home” to a kid when they visit often turn on pretty superficial factors? Cool buildings? Pretty campus? Surrounding neighborhood? Engaging or not so engaging tour guide? It’s all a bit of a crap-shoot, and kids latch onto whatever they can to differentiate one place from another. I think looking around and asking oneself “are there any people around here that look like me?” is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
I confess I find all this slightly disdainful finger-wagging from the adults on the board tedious. One of the primary drivers in most teen’s lives is a desperate search for a sense of belonging. Have you guys forgotten that?
It is important to some extent, but these days every kid talks about progressive issues once the “me” test is satisfied. It seems very inconsistent to me.
It would be like a kid wanting to tutor students in Princeton rather than Camden.
Kalamazoo emphasizes service learning very heavily.
http://www.kzoo.edu/servicelearning/
FWIW, USNWR has a list of colleges that “college presidents, chief academic officers, deans of students and deans of admissions from more than 1,500 schools” believe to have a strong commitment to service learning.
Bates College
Berea College
Brown University
Butler University
Canisius College
Carson-Newman University
College of the Ozarks
Duke University
Elon University
Gettysburg College
Indiana University-Purdue University—Indianapolis
Loyola University Maryland
Michigan State University
Northeastern University
Portland State University
Rollins College
Stanford University
Tufts University
Tulane University
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
Valparaiso University
Wagner College
Warren Wilson College
You just described Brandeis.
Exactly.
A lot of great suggestions here. One school I haven’t seen mentioned is Guilford. It is a Quaker school like Haverford and Swarthmore. It is in Greensboro, NC and is not as selective as those two but very heavily influenced by
Quaker values. If you have the stats to look at Oberlin and Vassar, it would be a safety for you, but a good one.
@circuitrider I have to admit I love this quote. I don’t need to know the most convenient distance, but is it best measured in meters or kilometers?
You might be interested in Brown, a portion of the student body would fit your description and it is somewhat like an LAC in undergraduate focus. It has the Swearer Center for Public Service.
https://www.brown.edu/academics/college/special-programs/public-service/
@GrudeMonk: Think about the average distance between convenience stores, that should give you some idea of the scale intended.
@BlueNerdBird: As a suggestion for a means of quantifying what you are looking for, consider mostly schools where the number of economics majors is under 10%.
New College of Florida, Pitzer, Occidental, Goucher, University of Chicago (although its academic environment is traditional). . .
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the phrase “social justice” in a context where someone wasn’t denigrating the concept (typically by referring to SJWs).
Effective July, 2015, Vassar is a smoke-free campus.
Not even 420 friendly? That’s going to be tough to enforce.
I know, right?
For a budding collegiate SJW, what is the optimal campus distance to be to poor people? Close enough that it’s drivable by car within minutes? But far enough away that the poor people can’t casually wander onto your campus?
Earlham, also Quaker, also progressive, not preppy, social justice focus.
Kalamazoo College.
Some women’s colleges.
@T26E4 I apologize if my wording wasn’t the best it could have been. I live in an area and I’ve attended a high school where “preppy” means someone of a high social class, whom is very conservative, and not very open minded. My views differ from the majority of people I know, including a great deal of my family. I do not treat anyone I consider as “preppy” less nor would I with any human. But at the same time, I just want to be surrounded by people I can better associate with. It gets tiring to fight the mass majority of public opinion on your own. While I understand it may not be the best way for me to “widen my social view” or “positively change the world,” I do believe surrounding myself with a group of people who hold similar beliefs will positively help me and my social activism grow. I’m sorry if I’ve offended you or anyone else with the wording I’ve used… but this is my shot to figure out where I’m going to spend the next 4 years of my life. I’m just trying to determine where I want to go the best I can.