Dear Student, Thank you for your interest in applying to Telluride Association Summer Seminars (TASS) in 2022. Telluride Association has made major changes to our summer offerings for this year. In this letter, we explain the most important changes and how they affect you as an applicant. TASP...
Dear Friends, Supporters, and Associates of Telluride Association: Telluride Association is pleased to announce the launch of the Telluride Association Summer Seminars in the summer of 2022. These programs for high-school sophomores and juniors replace our previous summer programs, the Telluride Association Sophomore Seminars (TASS) and...
Dear TA Friends, After many years, Telluride Association is pleased to announce that we once again have a searchable directory of alumnx (“associates”) of our programs! We invite you to register for your account, update your profile, and choose what information you want to display to...
September 26, 2020 Dear Telluride Friends, As the summer has progressed, Telluride Association has been grappling with our obligation to combat anti-Black racism and white supremacy within our summer programs, in our board governance, and in the landscape of American secondary and higher education. This, in addition...
Update August 2021: After careful review and preparation, Telluride Association has reopened its Cornell and Michigan Branches for the Fall of 2021. Telluride is following University guidelines for operating under the conditions of the COVID pandemic, and will continue to adapt and respond to changing...
UPDATED 3/13: Cornell University has suspended classes on its Ithaca campus as of 5 PM. Virtual classes will begin April 6th. Telluride is working to assist its Cornell branchmembers to return home or who are, in accordance with Cornell guidelines, permitted to stay at Cornell...
by Grace Wang MB18 I wasn’t a foreigner to the number of zeroes on the Excel spreadsheet… the summer before, I had interned at a hedge fund and gotten used to how the word “millions” could be casually thrown around. However, for the first time, I...
by Nate Sibinga DS07 CB16 A generation before L.L. Nunn founded Telluride Association and Deep Springs College, John Stuart Mill argued for the necessity of a diverse educational landscape to a free society: “A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly...
by Puneet Singh MB16 TA17 The Board of Custodians met for their quarterly meeting and conducted some on-site Manager visits in beautiful Boston this weekend. Currently, one of the major issues that is on everyone’s mind is how to incorporate our values as an Association to...
Thoughts from a Pubspeak at the Michigan Branch by Jess Allen MB18 [caption id="attachment_3589" align="alignleft" width="225"] Jess Allen in Potsdam, Germany age 17 in 2011 at an international summer school[/caption] This was a difficult question to answer, because with under six months before the United Kingdom is scheduled...
Historical Perspectives and Current Trends for Black Hair By Aixa Marchand MB17 & Natasha Johnson MB16 Slides, notes, music and videos from a PubSpeak at MBTA on September 27, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTtrnDbOQAU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QhOoanzh60 https://tnj.com/black-hair-business/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtYarYhKa9c https://www.facebook.com/theRoot/videos/1820640728053129/?hc_ref=ARRU4AFJ_DN5HL3Ygi6HBEyIUVjrenS22-cREy-dUFCQTeJOwoRqwXI_t95eZkV1mvU...
Some facts and discussion about concussions in contact sports (Afterthoughts from a Pubspeak at MBTA on September 13, 2018) By Marianna Coulentianos MB17 After watching the movie "Concussion" in which Will Smith plays the role of Dr Omalu, the doctor who discovered CTE, a condition where protein accumulates...
By Jess Falcone CB04 TA07 [caption id="attachment_3447" align="aligncenter" width="689"] Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built[/caption] My book, Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built, has just been published by Cornell University Press....
by Puneet Singh MB16 TA17 This Labor Day weekend, MBTA began its yearly operations welcoming 23 students and 3 faculty guests. Eleven of the students are new, while 12 of them are returning to the house from last year. Three of the current housemembers are summer...
by Chris Opila MB17 Editor's Note: In our Spring 2018 Newsletter, Michael Becker SP08 TA13, wrote about Telluriders working in the area of immigrant rights. You can read the article here. Post publication, we reached out to Michigan Branch member Chris Opila, who is a JD...
By Joaquin Brito Jr. CB17 TA18 [caption id="attachment_3385" align="alignright" width="300"] CBTA Dining Area[/caption] As the climate continues to change, how we transform ourselves, our communities, and society towards sustainable practices will be a hot (pun intended) topic of conversation. Last year at CBTA, we continued engaging in...
by Marina Tinone SP15 TA17 They were pretty. The little red flowers, all bunched together. The apartment window open, and the light coming through. I watered the flowers. And I thought that if Grandma were the one watering them, she would be singing. So, I sang the...
A 10-minute Free-Writing Poetry Workshop with Telluride & GEAR-UP Ypsilanti © by Emily P. Lawsin I am from The paneled library with its George Nelson lamps Warmed by the grand piano next door, and eclectic books donated from graduating seniors; An army of stubborn ants crawling up the first floor...
On Mar 6, 2018, MBTA housemembers enjoyed a PubSpeak by Allina Chang (MB'17) on Chinese Food and Cooking. As part of the PubSpeak, she taught housemembers how to make Chinese Scallion Pancakes (Vegan) and Steamed dumplings. Anthony Zheng (MB'17) was her sous chef for the...
by Pepper Trail CB72 TA73 SYLLABUS FOR THE WARMING WORLD Teach me now the epistemology of melt The inflexible rules of liquefaction How broad white glaciers, bovine and calm Drop their slippery calves into the sea How ice, crystalline and blue, can rot Pock, crack, fissure, flow Send secret rivers twisting beneath...
By Helena Ratté MB13 I received the 2017 Yarrow Award to conduct research in Germany and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as part of an evaluation project for the German humanitarian women’s organization AMICA e.V. Over the course of a six-month period, I assisted in designing a strategy...
by Amy Bao For all of us fortunate enough to have experienced a Nunnian education in some way, shape, or form, we know it is much more than a scholarship or summer program. At its core, it is about the people we meet and the...
The excerpts below refer to a very early effort on the part of Telluride Association to develop an emblem for itself. The effort was “crowd-sourced,” and generated a fair amount of discussion. Apparently, however, the early efforts led to naught… From 1912 Proceedings, pp. 23-24. Mr. Ray...
Anthony W. Mariano The Telluride Association’s Investment Policy Statement, passed at the 2016 Convention dictates that our investment strategy “will utilize both passively and actively managed investments.” A later section states: “The asset allocation will be implemented using both active and passive investment managers. Highly efficient...
We drove twelve hours across four states and stopped to pee seven times. We smiled secretly at each other when I turned down champagne at the wedding and sucked it in for photos. When my brother-in-law threw up because he drank too much I felt...
Has Telluride Ever Hosted Summer Programs at Stanford University? Yes! Telluride has sponsored TASPs at 15 different sites since 1954, and TASS at 3. Here’s the list: TASP: Cornell: 1954 – Deep Springs College: 1957-60, 1969-73, 1978-90 Stanford: 1961-62 Princeton: 1963-66 Hampton University: 1966-70 Cremona Field TASP:...
In our Alumni Profile series, we'll be sitting down with Telluride alumni from a wide variety of fields who are making their mark on their profession and their communities. For our inaugural interview, we sat down with Tiffany Yizar, SS01 SP02. Tiffany holds a bachelor's...