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A member of the Claremont Colleges , Claremont McKenna College is a small, highly selective, Private Coeducational , Liberal Arts College enrolling about 1100 students with a curricular emphasis on government, economics, and public policy. CMC is located in Claremont, California , 35 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles. HISTORY AND REPUTATION Claremont McKenna College was founded in 1946 soon after World War II ended as Claremont Men's College. CMC was founded with the mission to foster leadership in its students in the fields of government, business, and international affairs. The school became Coeducational in 1976 and was renamed after Donald McKenna, a founding trustee, in 1981. Its mission has stayed the same, as reflected in the College's motto, ''"Leadership in the Liberal Arts"''. Despite its youth, the College is often ranked among the top colleges in the country under numerous categories:
CAMPUS LIFE Dorms Claremont's dorms are divided into 3 regions: North Quad, Mid Quad, and South Quad. In addition, the student apartments sit on the East edge of campus, and are occupied primarily by seniors. All dorm rooms are attended to by housekeeping staff every other week. North Quad is comprised of Appleby, Boswell, Green, and Wohlford dormitories, which were the campus's first dorms. In north quad, every room opens to the outdoors instead of opening to an interior hallway. North quad rooms are all doubles grouped into suites of four rooms that share a bathroom. North Quad is the center of the social scene at CMC and at the greater 5C community. CMC's Mid Quad is home to Beckett, Benson, Berger, Marks, and Phillips Halls, which feature long interior corridors, double and single rooms, large shared-bathroom facilities, and all-dorm lounge areas. Adjacent to Mid Quad is Badgley Gardens a green space just south of Beckett Hall, where commencement was previously held. Due to the construction of a new dorm on Badgley Gardens, commencement has been moved to Pritzlaff field, behind Bauer Center, on the east end of campus. Construction on the new dorm in Badgley Gardens is scheduled to begin in summer 2007. The tallest buildings in Claremont are "The Towers," Auen, Fawcett, and Stark Halls, which make up South Quad. Each tower has seven floors with approximately twelve students per floor. Each floor has a common area and a large shared bathroom, and there is an all-dorm lounge area on the ground floor. Stark Hall, the newest of the South Quad dorms, is substance-free. Senior Apartments The Senior Apartments lie to the east of the college's athletic facilities and to the west of Claremont Boulevard, and are divided into four buildings numbered 651, 661, 671 and 681. Each apartment is divided into four bedrooms and two bathrooms, and an apartment application must have four names on it. Until recently, half the apartments were reserved for men and half for women, and apartments were allotted based on credits. However, in 2005 the college abolished the 50/50 male/female ratio and began to assign apartments strictly on credits, which has had the effect of skewing the ratio slightly toward the female side. In any given year, most of CMC's 260 - 300 seniors can live in the apartments, though due to limited space some must live in the dorms. Living in the apartments is considered highly desirable amongst CMC's senior class. Seniors get the chance to live with three friends of their choice, and do not have to worry about potentially obnoxious underclassmen. They also have the option to stay on a meal plan and eat at one of the 5-C dining halls, or cook for themselves. Apartment dwellers do not get the maid service of the dorms, but they do get a Cable hookup, which the dorms don't have. Noise levels are more manageable, and tend to be quiet during much of the week and in the days leading up to Thesis , and loud from Thursday to Saturday. Most parties and social events at the apartments take place between buildings 661 and 671 or on the "dunk hoops" (a small Basketball Court with 7 foot hoops). Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum The Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum hosts more than one hundred dinner and lecture events with distinguished speakers each year, serving as the College's central intellectual and social hub. Students enjoy getting to know their professors at wine and cheese receptions and formal dinners preceding lectures by eminent visitors such as former President Bill Clinton , Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich , Author Salman Rushdie , former Attorney General Janet Reno , filmmaker Spike Lee , environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak , NY Times Columnist Thomas Friedman , and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia . This year the Athenaeum is prominently hosting Bono . The Athenaeum hosts speakers four nights a week, and also serves daily afternoon tea in its library, featuring chocolate-covered strawberries and pastries. Afternoon tea, like all Athenaeum meals and events, is free to students, faculty, and staff. The Claremont Colleges Claremont McKenna is a member of the Claremont Colleges , and much of student life revolves around the five colleges, or "5C's." Claremont McKenna College, Pomona College , Scripps College , Pitzer College and Harvey Mudd College all interact socially, but also share dining halls, libraries, and other facilities spread throughout the bordering campuses. All five colleges are part of the ''' Claremont University Consortium '''. Students attending Claremont McKenna can enroll in up to 2/3 of their classes at the other four colleges, and can also major at any of the other colleges if the major is not offered at CMC. This is the general academic policy at all five schools, and is meant to give students the resources of a larger university while still maintaining the qualities of a small, liberal-arts college. TRADITIONS
Several of Claremont McKenna College's traditions are water-related:
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS General education requirements Although its specialty is public policy and economics, Claremont McKenna College does hold to the idea of a liberal education by requiring students to add breadth to their knowledge through the completion of course in natural and social sciences, humanities, and foreign language. Generally, most CMC students take introductory government and economics courses, calculus or discrete math, a course in both physical and biological science, physical education or participation on a team sport, a third or fourth semester equivalent of a foreign language, and at least several other humanities couses including literature, philosophy and religious studies, as well as other social science classes in psychology and history. First year requirements Literature 10 - Composition and Literary Analysis Unless waived for a transfer student, every student must take in their first year at the college. This introductory literature class covers all the major literary genres and is designed to improve each students critical thinking and writing skills. The specific works studied and course format varies depending on professor. There are plans in the Literature department to eventually phase out this class as a requirement and for the first year in 2006, students with an appropriate AP score in English may substitute any literature course for their Literature 10 requirement. Civilization 10 - Questions of Civilization Question of Civilization was designed to provide a unifying experience of Claremont McKenna students while fostering the exploration of universal thoughts and ideas. Directed by Prof. Robert J. Valenza, each year a core set of text is chosen for all section of Civilization 10, with each professor free and challenged to add his/her own insights or works to the course. Although not common in all sections, Prof. Valenza encourages the Civ faculty to provide interaction through discussion. Many students, though far from most, find this one of their most cherished CMC experiences. Majors Claremont McKenna's curricular emphasis is on its social sciences, particularly economics, government, international relations, and organizational psychology. Two in every five CMC students majors in either government or international relations. Also well known is its version of the Oxford-style from Claremont McKenna and their MBA from the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in 5 years. CMC's science program is offered through the Joint Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges. The Joint Science Department has been offering a new double year-long introductory science class {Link without Title} to allow more flexibility than the former 3 year-long introductory biology, chemistry, and physics courses that most science majors must complete. For a complete list of CMC's majors, visit the CMC catalog at the Office of Registrar's Website . Sequences Claremont McKenna College does not offer traditional minors. Instead, CMC offers a group of sequences, which are minor-like groups of courses on a particular Interdisciplinary theme. CMC's sequences include:
RESEARCH INSTITUTES CMC sponsors 11 different on-campus research institutes and centers. They seek to produce new research and publications while involving undergraduate students in rigorous academic work. Many are named in honor of the college's donors.
ATHLETICS Athletes from CMC, Harvey Mudd College , and Scripps College compete under one program - CMS Athletics. The men are the Stags, and the women are the Athenas. The teams participate in the NCAA 's Division III and in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference . Over the years, a rivalry has formed between the opposing sports teams CMS (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps) and PP (Pomona-Pitzer). These teams, however, mostly consist of students enrolled at Claremont McKenna and Pomona, which has intensified the rivalry between these particular neighbors. Recently, the rivalry has spread off the field and into classrooms and parties, making the rivalry not just athletic, but social and academic as well. CONTROVERSIES Like all colleges, CMC is not without controversy. For example:
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