Author: Jeff Zalesin

Former Pomona College theater professor Alma Martinez’s employment discrimination lawsuit against the college will go to trial on March 25, 2015 unless the two parties find another way to end the dispute, lawyers on both sides agreed at a public conference Monday, April 7.   Although the scheduled trial is almost

The Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU), a Sacramento-based interest group that represents higher education institutions, including the Claremont Colleges, and which has 5C officials on its Executive Committee, has lobbied extensively this year against a California bill that would allow some victims of child sexual abuse to

Matthew Bradley, the late systems administrator who earned a reputation for exuberance, generosity, and technological expertise during his tenure in the Pomona College Computer Science Department, was honored with a memorial service at Pomona Sept. 9. It was the latest in a series of events dedicated to Bradley, who died

The Pomona College Board of Trustees made some mistakes related to communication and oversight of the investigation that led to the firing of 17 staff members last year, but the comprehensive audit of work authorization documents for all Pomona employees was necessary, according to a report by a subcommittee of

When Workers for Justice (WFJ) members and supporters gathered Thursday to announce that they had complained to a federal agency about allegedly poor workplace safety conditions at Pomona College, it looked like their demonstration would follow a familiar procedure. Workers, students and union organizers convened at Sixth Street and College

Claremont McKenna College’s former Vice President for Admission and Financial Aid engaged in false reporting practices that went beyond inflating SAT numbers, misrepresenting statistics on ACT scores, class ranking and application numbers, according to a report published Tuesday by O’Melveny & Meyers LLP. Richard Vos, the former top-ranking admission officer,

Scripps College has cleared two faculty members of allegations that were made against them in anonymous letters of complaint, President Lori Bettison-Varga wrote in an e-mail to the college community Thursday. Bettison-Varga wrote that Scripps could not offer any details about the allegations, citing concerns about the privacy of the

Hundreds of students, workers, immigrant rights advocates and union organizers gathered at Pomona College on March 30 in support of dining hall workers’ efforts to unionize. The rally, which came in the wake of the controversial firing of 17 Pomona employees in December, was organized by Workers for Justice (WFJ),

Pomona College trustees and faculty professors spent most of their retreat last weekend discussing the education that Pomona students receive, despite some persistent tension between the faculty and the Board of Trustees over the firing of 17 employees who could not prove their work authorization status last semester, professors who

The Pomona College Board of Trustees has opened a series of internal reviews and set up a task force on communication between students and trustees, prompted by the controversial document checks that cost 17 Pomona employees their jobs last semester. Members of the Trustee-Student Task Force on Campus Community Communication,