Claremont Colleges

The Claremont Colleges (known colloquially as the 7Cs) are a consortium of seven private institutions of higher education located in Claremont, California, United States. They comprise five undergraduate colleges (the 5Cs) — Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College — and two graduate schools — Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Keck Graduate Institute (KGI). All of the members except KGI have adjoining campuses that together cover roughly 1 square mile (2.6 km2).

For the school in Australia, see Claremont College (Tasmania).
Not to be confused with the Five College Consortium.
The Claremont Colleges
(clockwise from top)
Former name
Claremont University Consortium (until 2017[1][2])
TypePrivate consortium
EstablishedOctober 14, 1925 (1925-10-14)[3][4]
FounderJames Blaisdell
Endowment$27 million (2019)[5][lower-alpha 1]
Budget$47 million (2019)[5][lower-alpha 2]
CEOStig Lanesskog[4]
StudentsApprox. 8500[6]
Location
Claremont
,
California
,
United States

34.102°N 117.712°W / 34.102; -117.712
CampusSuburban, 546 acres (221 ha)[6]
NicknamePomona-Pitzer Sagehens
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division III – SCIAC
Websitewww.claremont.edu

The consortium was founded in 1925 by Pomona College president James A. Blaisdell, who proposed a collegiate university design inspired by Oxford University. He sought to provide the specialization, flexibility, and personal attention commonly found in small colleges, but with the resources of a large university.[7] Today, the consortium has roughly 7700 students and 3600 faculty and staff, and offers more than 2000 courses every semester.[8] The colleges share a central library, campus safety services, health services, and other resources managed by The Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS). Among the undergraduate schools, there is significant social interaction and academic cross-registration, but each college still maintains a distinct identity.

Admissions to the Claremont Colleges is considered highly selective.[9] For the Class of 2020 admissions cycle, four of the five most selective liberal art colleges in the U.S. by acceptance rate were among the 5Cs, and the remaining college, Scripps, had the second-lowest acceptance rate among women's colleges.[10] The Fiske Guide to Colleges describes the consortium as "a collection of intellectual resources unmatched in America."[11]

Colleges

The five undergraduate colleges are:

The two graduate universities are:

The Claremont School of Theology (founded 1885) (and thus Claremont Lincoln University) is affiliated with the consortium, but is not a member.

History
An exterior view of Pomona College in 1907, featuring its two earliest buildings: Sumner Hall (right)[12] and Holmes Hall (left)[13]

Before the idea of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona College was founded in 1887.[14] Pomona began after a group of congregationalists envisioned a “New England-type” college on the West Coast.[14][15] Pomona College relocated to Claremont, California after the college acquired an unfinished hotel in Claremont.[14] And 23 years later, James A. Blaisdell became president of Pomona. Though in 1923, Pomona College faced a problem.[14] The school's population was growing. Thus, Pomona either had to go against their ideals of expanding or limit the amount of growth at the college. James Blaisdell developed a different option. He advised the college chose to form a consortium of differentiated small colleges, modeled after Oxford and Cambridge. In October 1923, President James A. Blaisdell of Pomona College wrote to Ellen Browning Scripps describing a vision of educational excellence he had for the future Claremont Colleges:

I cannot but believe that we shall need here in the South [of California] a suburban educational institution of the range of Stanford. My own very deep hope is that instead of one great undifferentiated university, we might have a group of institutions divided into small colleges — somewhat on the Oxford type — around a library and other utilities which they would use in common. In this way I should hope to preserve the inestimable personal values of the small college while securing the facilities of the great university. Such a development would be a new and wonderful contribution to American education. Now the thing which would assure this future institution to Southern California is land ... It is now or never. To save the needed land for educational use seems to me to guarantee to Southern California one of the great educational institutions of America. Other hands through the centuries will carry on the project and perfect it. But never again can there come so fundamental a service as this.[16][17]

The start of the Claremont Colleges came in 1925 with the addition of a graduate school, now known as Claremont Graduate University.[18] The college was originally known as Claremont College and began to function in 1927.[18] The second addition came in 1926 when Ellen Browning Scripps founded Scripps College.[19] Scripps College allowed Ellen Browning Scripps to put-forth her plan of a school which offered women access to a higher education, to better their professional careers and to better their personal lives.[20] Scripps College officially opened in 1927.[19] In 1946, 86 students and 7 faculty members formed the fourth institution of the Claremont Colleges, known as Claremont McKenna College.[21] CMC was formed as a fully male undergraduate school until women were admitted in 1976.[21] In 1955, Harvey Mudd College became the fifth institute in the consortium.[22] HMC was founded by Harvey Seeley Mudd, a former chairman of the Board of Fellows of Claremont College.[22] He envisioned an undergraduate college in the consortium that focused its education in science and engineering. In 1963, Pitzer College joined the Claremont Colleges.[23] Pitzer was founded as a college for woman focusing on the social sciences.[23] Later in 1970, Pitzer enrolled 80 men.[23] The school was named after Russell K. Pitzer, an important benefactor in the development of the institution.[23] The final and seventh college to join the consortium was Keck Graduate Institute.[24] KGI was founded in 1997 after a $50 million donation from W.M. Keck Foundation.[24] The graduate school focuses on post-graduate biomedical applications.[24] Initially planned to be located on Bernard Field Station lands, protests forced the institute to relocate to a site southwest of the Claremont Village.[25] Alongside the institutions, Claremont College Services was founded on July 1, 2000.[26] The Claremont College Services provides educational support to all the institutions in the consortium.[26] Specifically, TCCS aids in projects of group planning, establishment of new institutions into the consortium and hold expansion lands.[26]

Rankings

According to the American Liberal Arts College rankings released by U.S. News & World Report in fall 2018, the "5Cs" were ranked among the top 50 liberal art colleges in the United States: Pomona College (#5), Claremont McKenna College (#9), Harvey Mudd College (#18), Scripps College (#30), and Pitzer College (#41). Additionally, all of the undergraduate colleges are categorized as "Most Selective".[27] Forbes ranked the 5C's among the top 60 undergraduate colleges (including universities and military academies) in the nation and within the top 25 liberal arts colleges for its 2017 report: Pomona College (#10 overall, #1 LAC), Claremont McKenna College (#11 overall, #2 LAC), Harvey Mudd College (#18 overall, #5 LAC), Scripps College (#43 overall, #16 LAC), and Pitzer College (#59 overall, #23 LAC).[28] Niche listed all of the undergraduate colleges within the top 30 small colleges in the United States as measured by surveys rating various components of the undergraduate experience: Pomona College (#2), Harvey Mudd College (#5), Claremont McKenna College (#10), Scripps College (#22), and Pitzer College (#29).[29] U.S. News & World Report also releases individual graduate program rankings for the Claremont Graduate University, with several of its programs ranking in the top tier of graduate programs nationwide.[30]

Shared facilities, programs, and resources
Honnold Library

Each college is independent in that, for example, students receive their degrees from the one college in which they are enrolled, and administration and admissions departments are independent. The seven-institution Claremont Colleges system is supported by The Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS), which provides centralized services, such as a library, student health, financial and human resources, telecommunications, risk management, real estate, physical plant maintenance, and other services, for those colleges.

Shared facilities include the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges, Campus Safety, the Tranquada Student Services Center (which houses Baxter Medical Center, Monsour Counseling Center, and the Health Education Outreach), McAlister Center (home of the Office of the Chaplains and the Claremont Card Center), EmPOWER Center (which works to address sexual violence), the Rick and Susan Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity (The Hive), the Huntley Bookstore, all dining facilities, and several sports facilities. The Claremont Colleges Library is an example of the level of cooperation in terms of support services. The size of the library collection ranks third among the private institutions in California, behind only Stanford and USC.[31]

Shared academic departments include the Intercollegiate Women's Studies Center, the Intercollegiate Department of Chicano Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies (formerly Black Studies), the Intercollegiate Department of Religious Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Media Studies, and the Five-College Theater Department.

Shared intercollegiate programs include the European Union Center of California, the Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Center, the Office of Black Student Affairs, the Office of the Chaplains, Hillel, and the Queer Resource Center.

In addition, three of the Claremont Colleges—Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, and Scripps College—share a single science program. These three colleges pool their resources to create the largest academic department in Claremont, the Joint Science Department. Many research projects and courses utilize the Robert J. Bernard Field Station, an 86-acre (35 ha) natural area which consists principally of the rare Coastal Sage Scrub ecosystem.

Clubs and organizations

Many clubs are open to students from all the undergraduate colleges. The Student Life, the largest student newspaper at the 5Cs, covers all five schools and publishes a weekly print edition as well as online content. KSPC 88.7 FM is the non-profit community radio station associated with the Claremont Colleges. Students from the colleges host KSPC shows and help run the station.

Comparison of undergraduate colleges
Claremont McKenna[32]Harvey Mudd[33]Pitzer[34]Pomona[35]Scripps[36]
Students1345844111217031077
Faculty171115118240125
2017 endowment[37]$784 million$299 million$137 million$2.17 billion$337 million
2016 cost of attendance[38]$70,523$73,550$70,025$68,790$70,497
Domestic white, non-Hispanic students41.4%33.9%45.4%35.2%52.9%
Domestic students of color36.2%50.6%38.4%47.3%37.4%
International students16.9%10.1%10.9%11.5%5.5%
Receiving financial aid45.5%69.1%42.1%56.1%56.7%
Male/female ratio52:4852:4846:5450:500:100
2018 acceptance rate[39]8.9%14.5%13.2%7.0%24.1%
2017 transfer acceptance rate2.5%6.8%13.5%9.6%N/A
First-Year Admitted Yield53%36%43%54%34%
Six-year graduation rate90%96%83%93%88%
Retention rate97%98%95%98%92%
Enrolled SAT 25-75% range1340-15101470-15701310-14901370-15301284-1458
Enrolled ACT 25-75% range30-3433-3529-3230-3429-33
Ranked in top 10% of HS class82%90%63%94%73%
Ranked in top 25% of HS class96%100%88%100%91%
Percent of classes under 10 students8%32%15%18%17%
Percent of classes under 20 students84%58%71%71%80%
Percent of classes over 50 students2%4%0%0%0%

People
Main article: List of Claremont Colleges people

Athletics
A Pomona-Pitzer football game
Main articles: Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas

Pomona College and Pitzer College compete together as the Pomona-Pitzer (PP) Sagehens.[40] Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College and Scripps College also compete together as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) Stags (for male teams) and Athenas (for female teams).[41] The teams participate in NCAA Division III in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). In the Division III Final Standings for the 2016-2017 year, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps ranked fourth nationally, while Pomona-Pitzer ranked 29th; they were the top two performers in the SCIAC.[42] Culturally, the Claremont Colleges place less emphasis on sports than many other institutions.[43]

Club and intramural sports

In addition to the varsity teams, there are several 5C club sports teams.

The roller hockey club, the Claremont Centaurs, won the Division 3 Championship of the West Coast Roller Hockey League in 2009–2010, 2010–2011, and 2011–2012.

The men's and women's rugby union both attended Division II Nationals in 2004 and 2006, and the men's team won the Division II national championship in 2010.

The women's ultimate team reached Nationals in 2004, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and won the tournament in 2012, and the men's ultimate frisbee were 2008 Southern California Sectional champions and 2011 Division III National champions.

Other club sports offered at the 5Cs include men's lacrosse, field hockey, crew, and cycling.

Further reading
  • Bernard, Robert J. (1982). An unfinished dream: A chronicle of the group plan of The Claremont Colleges. Claremont, Calif.: Claremont University Center.

Notes
  1. Does not include the endowments of the member institutions.
  2. Does not include the budgets of the member institutions.

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