In an exclusive interview with TSL, Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr talked about grading and fall plans amid coronavirus.
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5C budget crunches loom as Harvey Mudd and Scripps freeze hiring
In response to COVID-19 related costs, Scripps College and Harvey Mudd College have frozen hiring for new and vacant positions.
Pomona faculty to re-vote Friday on struck down A/no record/incomplete policy
Pomona faculty will re-vote on Friday on an A/no record/incomplete grading policy following technical difficulties at Wednesday’s meeting.
EDITORIAL BOARD: Pomona shutting out students, reporters from faculty grading meeting is unacceptable
Pomona barred students and reporters from a faculty meeting to decide coronavirus grading policy. This is unacceptable.
As Claremont Colleges clear campuses, students watch semester disappear
With the threat of coronavirus bearing down, 5C students saw their semesters on campus cut short as administrators asked them to leave.
Right-wing foundation to sue Pomona, Pitzer
The David Horowitz Freedom Center will sue Pomona and Pitzer Colleges for alleged anti-Semitism, citing Trump’s new executive order.
Former A.G. Eric Holder advocates for SCOTUS term limits, blasts Barr at Pomona talk
Obama-era attorney general Eric Holder discussed his advocacy for voting rights during Pomona’s third annual Payton Distinguished Lecture.
5C student activists push Pomona College to divest from funds tied to fossil fuels
Student activists have rekindled the Claremont Colleges’ fossil fuel divestment movement this semester and are focusing their attention on pressuring Pomona College to divest its endowment from fossil fuel interests.
Pomona faculty initiate review process for policy on faculty-student relationships
Relationships between students and faculty/staff at Pomona College are currently permitted under certain conditions. But they may not be come 2020, as the school plans to review and possibly change the policy.
OPINION: No President Starr, ‘valuing values’ isn’t education
G. Gabrielle Starr and Kevin Dettmar’s article in the Chronicle of Higher Education is counterintuitive and has unfortunate implications.