The woods, meadows, ponds, and various athletic facilities offer ample opportunity for active as well as contemplative pursuits. In addition to on-campus activities, such as films, lectures, and readings, students have the opportunity to attend concerts, plays, and dance performances. Workshop groups may also use some of the nearby galleries and museums as sites for various forms of imaginative and reflective writing. Rolling admissions begin in early February and normally close at the beginning of June. Applying early is strongly recommended.
Financial aid is available for qualified students.
The college campus is located a short distance from downtown Portland not far from such natural wonders as the Pacific coastline, the Columbia River Gorge, and Mount Hood National Forest. These locations, with their diverse cultural resources, offer a range of settings for the reflective writing and reading at the core of this program. As in the past seven summers, members of the 2001 Fir Acres community will have the option of joining a workshop group called Exploring Women's Writing. By considering what women writers have had to say about themselves, their lives, and their world, this group explores, as all Fir Acres participants do, a range of different writing forms that reflect and foster the habits of mind of an engaged imagination. Nestled among rolling hills, woods, and farmland in central Ohio, Kenyon's neighbors include Amish communities that farm the land just north and east.