CMC trustees return race GE proposal to faculty, call for broader alternative instead

During a Sept. 30 executive session, Claremont McKenna College’s Board of Trustees unanimously agreed to return a proposal for a racial-ethnic general education requirement to faculty, favoring an alternative proposal that would be broader in scope. 

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Cross-campus dining to return this fall, beginning Aug. 27

Following a two-year interruption and a brief appearance last spring, cross-campus dining is back on the menu at the 5Cs for the upcoming fall semester.

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Trabajadores de Pitzer alegan que la administración cometió prácticas ilícitas mientras ellos organizaban un sindicato

Este primero de mayo, algunos trabajadores de Pitzer hicieron pública su campaña de elecciones sindicales. Dos semanas después, junto a otros miembros de la comunidad de los Claremont Colleges, los trabajadores le entregaron al entonces presidente Melvin Oliver la primera de tres quejas sobre prácticas ilícitas (o ULPs, por sus siglas en inglés) que han presentado desde el 10 de mayo.   

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Union or bust? Pitzer workers raise allegations of administrative wrongdoing while organizing

Two weeks after Pitzer College staff workers went public with a union campaign on May Day, staff members and other members of the 5C community delivered the paperwork for the first of three Unfair Labor Practices (ULPs) organizers have filed since May 10. 

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Getting hired at the 7Cs is one ordeal. Affording life near Claremont is another

The Claremont housing market has changed since Pomona College economics professor Michael Kuehlwein and his family bought their permanent home in the 1990s. In just the past decade alone, Kuehlwein explained, the median home price in Claremont has exploded. 

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At Scripps conference on abolition, Kaba and Ritchie re-envision ‘a liberatory state’

Updated April 16 at 3:53 p.m. Calling for a reimagination of the carceral state, scholar-activists and abolitionists Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie convened over the weekend as part of Scripps College’s “Abolition is Feminism, Feminism is Abolition” conference.  The three-day conference was held in partnership between the 5Cs’ Intercollegiate Feminist

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5Cs sharply restrict activities as case count exceeds 200 this week

At least 190 people have tested positive across the Claremont Colleges since Monday, intensifying a surge in COVID-19 cases that began after students returned from spring break in late March.

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