Angie Estes, Winner of Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Visits Claremont Classrooms

It was a week full of poetry and the arts at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) this past week with poet Angie Estes, recipient of CGU's Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, who spent a week at the university as its resident poet.  Estes won the award in February 2015 for her most recent book of poetry, Enchantée. Her work was lauded by

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Pitzer Installs Security Cameras to Combat Campus Crime

Over the summer, new security cameras were installed at the entrances to Pitzer College's residence halls as a result of a resolution passed by the Pitzer Student Senate on Dec. 7, 2014. The student-driven resolution was in response to an increasing campus crime rate, particulary surrounding bike thefts and crimes involving individuals not affiliated

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Pitzer Faculty Vote No Confidence On President Trombley

Before officially leaving Pitzer College on June 30, President Laura Trombley wrote an op-ed for the Chronicle of Higher Education published April 6. In it, she writes, “‘Please don’t let me be the one to…’ Fill in the blank: melt down, ruin the college, get a vote of no confidence, underperform, embarrass myself.” One of

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