Following a year of uncertainty regarding the program’s future, the 5Cs’ Justice Education Center (JEC) appointed a new interim director, Tessa Hicks Peterson, last month. Peterson has since initiated plans to pilot multiple new partnership models next fall for Inside-Out, as the program navigates reconstruction following its partner institution’s, the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) — also known as Norco prison — closure in the fall.
Inside students currently participating in Pitzer’s Pathway-to-BA program are set to graduate on May 19 after fulfilling the 32-credit course requirement. They will then be relocated to other prisons in California, but they haven’t been told which facilities they’ll be transferred to, according to Peterson.
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CMC’s CARE Center celebrates 10 years of constructive dialogue
Claremont McKenna College’s Civility, Access, Resource and Expression (CARE) Center celebrated its 10-year anniversary on March 4. Students and faculty spoke to CARE’s impact on campus amid threats to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from the Trump administration.
To Vince Greer, CMC assistant vice president for dialogue and diversity, the current political climate makes the CARE center and its mission “more important [now] than ever.”
ASCMC inaugural meal packing event yields 16,000 meals for charity
Last Friday, 85 students and faculty members volunteered to package more than 16,000 meals for the Pomona Valley Food Bank in an event hosted by Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC). Ken Eckel CM ’28, community service committee chair, and Katherine Hodge CM ’27, academic affairs committee chair, organized
EcoReps bring conscious composting to Collins Dining Hall
One ton of food — equivalent to 2,000 full plates — was dumped by diners at Claremont McKenna College’s Collins Dining Hall last month, according to the college. The statistic comes as Collins enters its second semester of front-of-house composting, an effort spearheaded by the dining hall and student sustainability groups like the EcoReps.
The Claremonster under the bed: The Claremont Institute, the conservative think tank from the Claremont Colleges behind the Trump administration
Founded in 1979 by four Claremont Graduate University students, the Claremont Institute’s once mutual relationship with the Claremont Colleges has changed drastically since the Claremont Institute’s origins.
All five Claremont Colleges recognized among nation’s top liberal arts institutions in Forbes and U.S. News & World Report new rankings
All five undergraduate Claremont Colleges earned national recognition in recently released collegiate rankings, including the Forbes’ 2025 list and U.S. News & World Report.
Keeping up with Collins: New composting initiatives and Coca-Cola products set to improve campus dining
Claremont McKenna recently installed composting and Coke products in Collins Dining Hall.
From a vision to a reality: Robert Day Science Center celebrates opening ceremony
Claremont McKenna College held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 26 for their newly opened Robert Day Science Center.
CMC’s Robert Day Sciences Center opens nearly four years after breaking ground
This fall, the Robert Day Sciences Center (RDSC) at Claremont McKenna College has officially opened after starting construction nearly four years ago.
CMC tops FIRE free speech rankings, remaining 4Cs receive failing grades
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) released their 2026 Free Speech Rankings, a report on speech climates on college and university campuses nationwide Sept. 9.