CMC In The News

In an opinion piece for USA Today, “America’s political future is a California-Texas duel,” Prof. Ken Miller wrote: “If you want to know the potential stakes in Tuesday's national elections, you need not look much further than California and Texas.”

The New York Times Sunday Book Review of Corinna Vallianatos’ new novel, “The Beforeland,” called her writing “haunting and precise.”

The Daily Bulletin featured Randall Lewis '73 P'10 P'11 P'13 and his $3.75 million gift to CMC to support innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Sacramento Bee featured one of the Rose Institute’s white papers about California’s voting rights, which noted that "it is likely, but not guaranteed" that by-district election systems can increase Latino representation in local government.

Seventeen magazine featured Aishat Jimoh ’23 as their first-ever Voice of Change for her volunteer work this past summer rebuilding homes and feeding the community of New Orleans.

Prof. Lily Geismer, who studies suburban voters, was cited in the New York Times.

In their New York Times op-ed, Prof. Jon Shields and Stephanie Muravchik contended that Democrats in working-class communities who flipped red to vote for Donald Trump in 2016 might just find Joe Biden appealing in 2020.

Claremont McKenna College was featured in a story about how campuses are preparing for a number of scenarios due to the lack of clear and timely state guidance for campus re-openings. The uncertainty has resulted in a “wild array of different configurations of approaches and solutions” among campuses, said Hiram Chodosh, president of CMC. According to the story, CMC had begun planning a fall return months ago, envisioning classes in larger spaces or outdoors, students in single rooms or small-group dorms, takeout food eaten outside with safe distances among friends. His campus plans far exceed Los Angeles County’s draft reopening protocols for colleges and universities, which Chodosh helped create as a member of the higher education task force. He said failing to take “measured risks” to reopen and simply waiting for a vaccine was not a “sensible way to confront the challenge.”

In a front-page story, “Covid Tests and Quarantines: Colleges Brace for an Uncertain Fall,” President Hiram Chodosh was quoted on the challenges facing U.S. colleges: “We have learned how to close safely. But the big question now is, can we open safely?”

President Hiram Chodosh was interviewed by the Associated Press about challenges colleges and universities are facing in the uncertain times of COVID-19.

Sharon Basso, vice president of student affairs, was interviewed in Fox 11’s series “New California,” which highlights a different industry and how it's changing in the midst of COVID-19. Basso spoke about how college campuses are planning alterations.

CMC President Hiram Chodosh was interviewed by Fortune magazine for an article featuring CMC’s “heroic” effort to meet the needs of their 2020 graduates, who were facing the “worst career environment” that college students “have faced since the Great Depression.”

CMC expanded its robust internship program, accomplishing something “unprecedented.”

“We’re expanding our internship program into the immediate postgraduate environment,” Chodosh said. Thanks to “a very generous anonymous donor,” Chodosh explained that 2020 grads would be eligible for a summer of training in high-value skills and potentially for financial support in low-paid or unpaid work—à la internships—until next June, up to $10,000 per quarter. As Chodosh told the class of 2020, “This funding will enable you to work for an employer who may not be able initially to hire you.”

CMC was featured in a Los Angeles Times story about how colleges may look when they reopen to students — from teaching classes outdoors to offering food to go. “These strategies may not work. They may not be feasible,” President Hiram Chodosh cautioned. “But we need to exhaust the path before we get to that particular dead end.”

Claremont McKenna College was mentioned in a Los Angeles Times story about financial aid needs in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. CMC is hearing from more families apprehensive about college costs and remains committed to fully covering a student’s demonstrated financial need.

President Hiram Chodosh was featured in an in-depth Chronicle of Higher Education article that illustrated how four college presidents made decisions to close their campuses — and helped pave the way for the rest of the country to follow suit.