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Pitzer was founded in 1963 as a women's college by Russell K. Pitzer (1878–1978), a California citrus magnate, philanthropist, and Pomona College alumnus. In April 1963, John W. Atherton, the dean of faculty and a professor of English at Claremont Men's College (now Claremont McKenna College) was hired as Pitzer's first president, and over the next seventeen months he recruited students ...
1971 - Pomona combined with Pitzer College for athletics to become Pomona–Pitzer, while La Verne re-joined back to the SCIAC, both effective in the 1971-72 academic year. 1976 - Claremont–Mudd combined with Scripps College for athletics to become Claremont–Mudd–Scripps , effective in the 1976-77 academic year.
The Claremont Colleges (known colloquially as the 7Cs) are a consortium of seven private institutions of higher education located in Claremont, California, United States.They comprise five undergraduate colleges (the 5Cs)—Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College—and two graduate schools—Claremont Graduate University (CGU ...
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A number of U.S. liberal arts colleges have either joined, or have been important influences on, a movement to make the SAT optional for admission, in response to criticisms of the SAT. Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and Bates College in Lewiston, Maine were among the first to institute SAT-optional programs in 1969 and 1984, respectively ...
Pitzer College — a private residential liberal arts college and member of the Claremont Colleges, located in Claremont, Los Angeles County, Southern California. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Despite police operations that cleared Pro-Palestinian encampments at UCLA, Cal State Humboldt and USC, protesters in camps on California campuses say they will remain until their demands are met.
The college competed with Claremont Men's College (CMC) for a decade beginning in 1946, and joined with Pitzer in 1970. Pomona-Pitzer's mascot is Cecil the Sagehen, a greater sage-grouse . Its primary rival is the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas , the joint team of the three other undergraduate Claremont Colleges.