 Following "a contentious year of protests, including an anti-racism sit-in in Kroger’s office," college president John Kroger resigned, effective June 2018.The Reed College campus was established on a tract of land in southeast Portland known in 1910 as Crystal Springs Farm, a part of the Ladd Estate, formed in the 1870s from original land claims.The college's grounds include of contiguous land, including a wooded wetland known as Reed Canyon.