Pomona College to increase wages for visiting professors

Pomona College has announced its plans to increase the base salaries of visiting professors in the upcoming 2023-2024 fiscal year. The decision comes after new research findings from Pomona’s Vice President for Academic Affairs, Yuqing Melanie Wu and Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer Jeff Roth, that indicate a disparity in

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Survey results highlight support for a new CMC Racial-Ethnic GE

A Racial and Ethnic Studies General Education (GE) requirement at Claremont McKenna College may progress after the results of a campus-wide survey.  The survey’s results, released on Feb. 21 at CMC’s Athenaeum, indicated that a majority of students, staff and faculty are in favor of expanding the school’s curriculum.  CMC’s

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New CMC group to improve social life announced after controversial resolution and committee termination

On Feb. 12, Claremont McKenna College’s Committee to Consider the Resolution on the Protection of CMC Social Life officially dissolved. The committee was established in late January at an ASCMC Senate meeting to address CMC party culture through the passing of a controversial resolution proposed by Austin Andersen CM ’25

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Kelly McCreary announced as Scripps commencement speaker for the class of 2023

Actress and voting rights advocate Kelly McCreary will speak at the Scripps College commencement ceremony on May 13, according to President Suzanne Keen’s email to Scripps students on Thursday, Feb. 9. McCreary is best known for her role as Dr. Maggie Pierce on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy.” She appeared on other

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ASCMC resolution to return to pre-pandemic social life sparks controversy

On Feb. 6, students crowded into the Mary Pickford Auditorium for the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC) weekly Senate meeting to discuss a resolution proposed by Claremont-Mudd-Scripps student-athlete Austin Andersen CM ’25 on Jan. 23.  The resolution demands that the Dean of Students Office (DOS) lift “arbitrary and

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Claremont’s Laemmle Theatre lives to see another year

Claremont’s pandemic burdened, local movie theater finally closes an unsteady chapter in the fate of the neighborhood’s historic landmark. To the relief of many 7C students and Claremont locals, the 16-year-old Laemmle’s Claremont 5 Theatre is not set to close any time soon. However, with sparse business since the beginning

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