Telluride Association Summer Program

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Telluride Association Summer Program
Formation1954
Founder Telluride Association
Founded at Cornell University
Dissolved2021
TypeHigh school summer program

Telluride Association Summer Programs, or TASPs, are selective six-week educational experiences for rising high school seniors offering intellectual challenges beyond secondary school level. [1]

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Description

The programs are designed to bring together young and intellectually bright students 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.

Many students are invited to apply based on strong standardized test scores, such as by scoring highly on the PSAT, [2] or through 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.

TASPs also advocate a self-contained community of learning among the TASPers at any one of the four TASP seminars. TASPers are encouraged to engage in activities together outside of seminars. Often, TASPers form close bonds over six weeks as a result of the self-contained community that forms. [3]

Since the first TASP was held in 1954, TASPs have been held at college and university campuses across the United States, including Cornell University, the University of Texas at Austin, Deep Springs College, Johns Hopkins University, Williams College, the University of Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis, Kenyon College, and St. John's College. [4]

Admissions

Applicants to TASP were required to write essays in response to six prompts, with each essay a maximum length of 1,500 words. Sample essay prompts included "Discuss a specific problem or topic in a field that interests you" and "Write a critical analysis of a book, poem, play, essay, or other text you have read outside of school." [5] Promising candidates received an interview with one or more Telluride associates. Applicants' test scores and transcripts were given only limited consideration, with application readers selecting for "geographic, economic, and racial diversity" and students who would thrive in a community environment. [6] As of 2012, the program's admissions rate was 4.4 percent. [7]

Alumni

Students

Notable alumni of TASPs include:

Faculty

Nationally known faculty who taught at TASPs include: [4]

Program revamp

Starting with the summer of 2022, the Telluride Association retired the names of its two previous summer programs, including TASP and the Telluride Association Sophomore Seminar (TASS). Instead, the Association began offering summer programs under two new names: the Telluride Association Summer Seminar in Critical Black Studies (TASS-CBS) and the Telluride Association Summer Seminar in Anti-Oppressive Studies (TASS-AOS).

Criticism

Vincent Lloyd, professor and director of Africana studies at Villanova University, wrote an article about his experience teaching at one of the restructured courses that replaced Telluride Association Summer Program. He described a cult-like experience focused on parroting anti-racist slogans. He stated that two Asian students, as well as himself, were kicked out of the program for alleged racism. [24] [25] Another alumna of the program described a similarly cult-like atmosphere in 2015. [26]

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