Programs

On any given night during the academic year, the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum serves as an exemplar for how scholars, public figures, thought leaders, artists, and innovators engage with an eager campus audience on a range of important topics and diverse viewpoints. Whether it’s student fellows who are hired each year to steward programming and discussion, or attending students who excitedly socialize and share insights over lunch or dinner multiple times a week, the goal is to encourage life skills including leadership, dialogue, respect, and empathy.

The Constitutional Convention functions as a student pitch competition. Teams pitch original or revised constitutional amendments to a panel of faculty judges and student peers for cash prizes. [1, 2, 3]

These small gatherings of faculty and students encourage discussions on topics curated by professors and research instituteshe informal gatherings, which continue with dinner at a CMC professor’s home or in Claremont Village, help broaden views and create stronger bonding experiences.