Across the CMC curriculum, members of our faculty are meeting the challenge of these unprecedented and historic times, delivering exceptional coursework in a fully online modality for the fall semester. In our Academic…
The story of 2020 and the story of the Class of 2024 will forever be linked.As President Hiram E. Chodosh posed in a series of questions to class members and their families during CMC’s virtual Welcome Orientation on Sa…
With the new Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum season set to begin next month, three CMC seniors are shaping the speaker series with the entire Claremont McKenna community in mind. Throughout their CMC experiences, the 2020-2…
Believe it or not, the beloved CMC planner just became a media star, featured in a CMC-student-produced video that won the national QuestBridge Spirit Day Award. The annual contest challenges students from colleges and…
Can China escape its totalitarian past? That was the central question posed by Dr. Minxin Pei, CMC’s Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and a George R. Roberts Fellow, as he delivered the prestigious Se…
How are we adapting to life during the pandemic? While many of us are experiencing brain fog, with a blurred sense of the future, David Eagleman sees a silver lining, an opportunity for our minds during lockdown. “2020…
What brings together two prominent Constitutional scholars from opposite sides of the political spectrum? For Akhil Amar and Steven Calabresi, it’s the jurisprudential theory, originalism. The two found common ground du…
Poet Henri Cole offered a soothing balm for tumultuous times during his virtual Ath appearance. Cole, who is CMC’s Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature, read 14 of his original poems and took questions from fello…
Upon graduating from CMC’s Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program, Lindsay Burton ’19, Hunter (Ash) Ashburn ’17, and John Marshall ’16 immediately launched their careers as officers in the U.S. Army.On Veterans…
Over the past few years, historical monuments in public spaces have been flash points for anti-colonial and Black Lives Matter protestors. One side has argued for their removal while the other side for their preservatio…
