A look into CMC’s Black Men in Leadership club, one year after its inception

Black Men in Leadership (BMIL), a student-led organization at Claremont McKenna College (CMC), celebrates their one-year anniversary this month. Since its creation in 2023, BMIL has cultivated a strong, diverse community where Black male leaders at CMC can form relationships and initiate change. Elijah Touzoukou CM ’26 founded BMIL as

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Q&A with William Deresiewicz

No stranger to the Claremont Colleges, William Deresiewicz spoke at Claremont McKenna College’s Athenaeum Monday night—the writer’s fifth trip to Claremont since 2010. This time, however, Deresiewicz arrives as a New York Times bestselling author after the summer release of his book Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and

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Critic of Elite Education Targets ‘Leadership’ at CMC

Amid the resources of the 5Cs, many consider that students in the consortium—along with students at other elite colleges—are in a position of privilege. But perhaps none have articulated this sentiment as strongly as William Deresiewicz, the vocal critic of American higher education and author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the

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