Michelle Leifur Reid

Emily asked me today if there were any colleges that offered
"non-traditional forms of study." She said that she liked the idea of
pursuing a higher education, but knows that traditional university
study would not be a good match for her. So I did some surfing today
and found this one:
http://www.hampshire.edu/

They even have a page dedicated to homeschool admissions. I wrote to
a friend of mine who I respect asking about this college and she says
that this college actively pursues homeschooled students as they tend
to fit their alternative form of education better. I liked how they
addressed the lack of formal classes, transcripts, graded projects and
diplomas.

http://www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=8964

What I did find interesting is that part of the first year is spent
"teaching" students how to learn and how learning is not natural to
most incoming first years. I wonder what they would think of a bunch
of unschoolers who have had the freedom to really learn!

While I don't know that Emily will decide to go to college, it is nice
to know that there is a college that is accepting of homeschoolers
where unschoolers might feel like they fit in!

Michelle - who whishes she had found this college 25 years ago!

Tina

> Emily asked me today if there were any colleges that offered
"non-traditional forms of study.">


Michelle

In the current issue of Life Learning there is a column in the back
about this very thing. It's the Grown Without Schooling column by
Peter Kowalke. He is chatting with J.R. Morgan, 28, and he attended
Evergreen State University in Washington state, an alternative college.

She might enjoy reading the article...

Tina

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I have heard of Evergreen State and know someone who attended there. She
said it was too alternative for her at the time, but that later really
appreciated what she learned.

There is also another interesting college somewhere in So. Cal.....Riverside
or San Bernardino area. I have a friend that went there for a year, but she
couldn't stand the other alternative students, many didn't shower or use
deodorant. Her joke is that "I went to college in California for a year, but it
stank....literally stank!". :)

Leslie in SC


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Lesa ODaniel

<<Tina wrote:
In the current issue of Life Learning there is a column in the back
about this very thing. It's the Grown Without Schooling column by
Peter Kowalke. He is chatting with J.R. Morgan, 28, and he attended
Evergreen State University in Washington state, an alternative college.>>

**Matt Groening (creator and artist of The Simpsons) attended Evergreen for
a little while before he quit. I just like to point that out because I find
so many unschooling things in The Simpsons...

I also had a friend who attended Evergreen for a little while but he quit,
too. He described it as not enough structure for someone like himself. He
needed a real curriculum to feel like he was "going somewhere".

Lesa O'Daniel, AAHCC
Instructor, Bradley Method� of Natural Childbirth
323-541-5515
http://www.bradleybirth.com/ndweb.asp?ID=O123&Count=N

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