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Marston Quadrangle forms the center of Pomona's campus. South Campus has several arts buildings and performance venues. Bridges Auditorium ("Big Bridges") is used for concerts and speakers and has a capacity of 2,500. [174] [175] Bridges Hall of Music ("Little Bridges") is a concert hall with seating for 550. [176]
The College of Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona is among the most selective engineering colleges in the nation. For fall 2018, the college admitted 45.3 percent of its total freshmen applicants who held an average unweighted GPA of 3.74 (out of 4.00) and SATs of 1249 (out of 1600). [16]
With an on-campus housing capacity of 3,519 students, Cal Poly Pomona has the fifth largest housing system in the California State University. [156] [157] In 2016, 39% of first-year students and 10% of all students live in college housing. [144] There are three residential styles on the Pomona campus.
It was sponsored by a $100,000 gift (equivalent to $3.01 million in 2023) from the parents of Mabel Shaw Bridges, a student in Pomona's class of 1908 who died of illness her junior year. [6] It is used for a variety of musical and non-musical purposes, and is considered the "architectural gem" of Pomona's campus and one of Hunt's finest works. [7]
In 1956, Pomona constructed a curved 200-foot-long (61 m), 5-foot-tall (1.5 m) cinder block wall along a portion of the northern edge of its campus as a flood barrier. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] In the early 1970s, students began painting messages on the wall, and Pomona recognized it as a free speech wall in 1975 after the message "Free Angela" was painted ...
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Pomona College will hold its commencement ceremony 30 miles away at Shrine Auditorium in L.A. after protesters occupy stage.
Pomona (/ p ə ˈ m oʊ n ə / ⓘ pə-MOH-nə [8]) is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. Pomona is located in the Pomona Valley, between the Inland Empire and the San Gabriel Valley. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 151,713. [7]