Armand Hammer United World College of the American West

UWC-USA (lawfully named the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West) is a United World College established in 1982 by industrialist and altruist Armand Hammer. It is a two-year, free, co-instructive life experience school with around 230 understudies speaking to 70-80 nations whenever. Understudies are somewhere around 15 and 19 years of age, and the larger part get full or halfway grants. They are chosen from 155 National Committees that speak to the United World Colleges around the world. Understudies graduate with the full International Baccalaureate Diploma, a standout amongst the most regarded auxiliary recognitions on the planet. 

The school's main goal is to show worldwide comprehension by uniting young fellows and ladies of differing ethnic and social foundations in a situation in which they cooperate for shared achievement. Notwithstanding offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, the school has a solid project in human expressions, a critical administration program, and a special wild program. The Bartos Institute for Constructive Engagement of Conflict (CEC) was additionally settled in 2001 to furnish youngsters with the abilities to recognize and figure out how to usefully draw in clashes — at individual, interpersonal, and bigger group levels.

Graduates are commonly acknowledged at the most focused schools and colleges around the world.In late 2007, the Wall Street Journal recognized UWC-USA as one of the world's main 20 schools for its accomplishment in get ready understudies to enter top American universities. In 2010, UWC-USA was positioned a "Main Ten Program" by U.S. Community for Citizen Diplomacy.

The Armand Hammer Foundation obtained the property to build up a United World College in the United States in 1981. Real remodels of existing structures went before the school's opening in the fall of 1982, an occasion that was gone to by HRH Prince Charles, president of the United World Colleges development. The school's establishing president was Theodore D. Lockwood, who served from 1982 until 1993. Philip O. Geier served as president from 1993 until 2005, when he passed the reins to Lisa A. H. Sweetheart, whose administration finished in 2013. The school's fourth president is Dr. Mukul Kumar '89, a former student and pioneer in global instruction. 

In 1998, the school's gift was essentially expanded through the liberality of speculation supervisor Shelby M.C. Davis and his wife Gale. Their blessing today secures the biggest square of the school's understudy grants and makes this school (and the various UWCs) 100% free for every single American understudy. Their underlying endowment of $45 million in 1998 was, at the time, the biggest private gift ever constructed to global education.

An ensuing association program, likewise settled by the Davis family, gives grant backing to numerous graduates at more than 90 schools and colleges in the United States, including Amherst College, Bates College, Brown University, Carleton College, Colby College, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, Harvard University, Jacobs University Bremen, Johns Hopkins University, Lake Forest College, Earlham College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Macalester College, Oberlin College, Stanford University, Smith College, Tufts University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. 

The Montezuma Castle, now the Davis International Center, houses understudy and staff living arrangements, classrooms, course rooms, and workplaces, notwithstanding the understudy focus, school eating office, and the Bartos Institute for the Constructive Engagement of Conflict. 

The Old Stone Hotel (OSH), the primary inn opened in Montezuma (as the Hot Springs Hotel) was remodeled in 1981 to serve as organization working, until the reclamation of the Montezuma Castle was finished. The OSH now houses the authoritative workplaces of the Vice President, Dean of Students, Dean of Co-curricular Programs, Registrar, Business Office, Counseling Service, Wilderness Service Program and the school Archives. Furthermore, the arithmetic division and the English workforce have its workplaces in the working, and in addition English classrooms. Devoted in 2000, to pay tribute to previous president Theodore Lockwood and previous Development Director Lu Lockwood, the Lockwood Library now houses more than 20,000 volumes and 1,800 media documents. 

The Oscar Getz Memorial Hall, given by Martha Getz, serves as the President's House. Once in the past the staff place of the Hot Springs Hotel, was redesigned in 1981 to serve as the habitation of the president and his family, and also visitor house. Recognized visitors, for example, HRH Charles, Prince of Wales and Malcolm Forbes have lived there. 

The Sasakawa Center houses the workforce club at UWC-USA, and meeting offices. The house, a previous understudy focus before the reclamation of the Castle, is a sample of nineteenth century engineering, and conveys a gift from Ryoichi Sasakawa. 

The Zeinal-Zade Science Building, given by Swiss-Azerbaijani agent Kemal Zeinal-Zade, houses the branch of trial sciences, together with two material science labs, two science labs, two science labs, and additionally an artistic stove and classrooms. A mid 2000 expansion now houses the wild program class space and an additional multi-practical research facility. 

The Kluge Auditorium was given by film big shot John W. Kluge in 1988. The building houses the fundamental assembly hall, and in addition human expressions office, including workmanship classrooms, music classroom, piano practice room, recording studio, and a work space for emotional generation. The amphitheater has near a hundred occasions a year, including congregations, social days, theater exhibitions, addresses, and meetings. 

The Geier Center for Technology and Languages, given by the Trustees to pay tribute to President Emeritus Philip O. Geier III and previous Development Director Amy Y. Geier, houses the Information Technology office, bargaining three PC labs, top of the line printing offices; and also the dialect office and class space. 

The Knutson Greenhouse was developed by understudies, staff, and nearby development organization the Knutsons in 2009. Understudies plant and tend to herbs, deliver, and blossoms in the nursery, which is arranged alongside two outside greenery enclosures. 

The Pedro Medina Fields, which isolate the nation street from the lower grounds territory, were committed in 2008 to previous maintenance man Pedro Medina, in thankfulness for his 24 years of administration to UWC-USA. The playing fields have various school conventions and occasions including graduation (climate allowing), soccer and baseball. 

The Agroecology Research Center, which sits on 20 sections of land of riparian land and gives a hands-on lab to understudies intrigued by manageability, horticulture, and ecological science.