Feature Stories (page 71)
Introducing: Visiting Professor Jennifer Miller
I first met Jennifer Miller last year in the faculty parking lot behind the Humanities Building. Since then, I have come to learn that her virtues are far greater than her patient appreciation of useless information.
Read Moreľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº Featured in The Princeton Review’s “The Best 357 Colleges”
ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº was recently featured in The Princeton Review’s 2005 edition of “The Best 357 Colleges.” The annual “Best Colleges” guide offers two-page profiles on each school featured.
Read MoreHumanities Institute Fall Series Draws Crowds
Where can ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº students and the community find a speaker series featuring lecturers ranging from an Emmy Award-winning news correspondent to the Executive Director of the Federalist Society? This fall, students and the Claremont community had to look no further than the ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº campus and the Humanities Institute fall lecture and film series, “The Politics of Knowledge Production.”
Read MoreOne Vote Matters: ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº First-Year Learns the Value of the Vote
ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº first-year Eli Winkelman knows the importance of one vote. The rigorous “boot camp” she endured this summer taught her everything she needed to know about the voting process.
Read MoreA Death in the ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº Family
ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº President Nancy Y. Bekavac announced the passing of an important member of the ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº community, Katharine Miller, with the following words about her contributions to the college and beyond.
Read MoreU.S. News & World Report Ranks ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº 26th Best Liberal Arts College in Nation
The US News & World Report College Rankings for 2005 lists ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº-the women’s college of the Claremont Colleges Consortium-as the 26th best liberal arts college in the nation, up from 34th place in 2004.
Read Moreľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº Welcomes Five New Faculty Members
John G. Milton has been named the William Rand Keenan, Jr. Professor in Computational Neuroscience for the Joint Sciences Department of ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº, Pitzer, and Claremont McKenna Colleges.
Read MoreHigh Schoolers Get College Education: ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº Summer Academy
On June 12, thirty-four highly motivated young women moved into Eleanor Joy Toll Hall to participate in an academically intensive two-week residential program. The women, who attend public and parochial high schools from the greater Los Angeles and Inland Empire area, are participating in the ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº Summer Academy, now in its third year.
Read MoreAn Assignment in Perspective: Kate Sims
When choosing what to major in, junior Kate Sims knew she didn’t want to follow the usual path. Instead, she decided to blaze her own trail. She knew she wanted to combine management and art, so with the help of her advisor, Mary MacNaughton, Sims created a major in arts administration.
Read MoreNational Commentator Robin Gerber To Discuss “Women and Leadership” at ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº Fall Convocation
Robin Gerber — national commentator, scholar, and author of Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage — will give the keynote address at ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº’s fall academic convocation exercises on Thursday, September 11, at 11:00 a.m. in Garrison Theater in the new Performing Arts Center on the ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº campus.
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