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Claremont McKenna College began as Claremont Men's College in September 1946 with a founding class of 86 students and seven faculty. [12] Many of its first students were veterans of World War II attending college on the G.I. Bill. [13] Claremont Men's College was the third Claremont College, following Pomona College and Scripps College. CMC ...
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 ...
1958 - Claremont combined with Harvey Mudd College for athletics to become Claremont–Mudd, effective in the 1958-59 academic year. 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.
Claremont McKenna College, then Claremont Men's College, started admitting women in 1976 after being founded as a men's college for World War II veterans on the G.I. Bill. Haverford College admitted its first female students in 1980 and Columbia College of Columbia University held out even longer, not admitting women until 1983. By that point ...
In 2007, the founder and Chairman of Trust Company of the West and Trustee and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College, Robert A. Day (’65), made a $200 million individual gift, the largest donation ever made to a liberal arts college at the time, to Claremont McKenna College for the purpose of creating a one-year graduate program that would emphasize finance ...
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The Institute is named after Edessa Rose, a businesswoman, lawyer, feminist, and activist, who was its founding donor. Rose was born in 1903 and was one of the few women lawyers of her generation. In 1972, she became the first female trustee of Claremont McKenna College, three years before the college began admitting women.
Harvey Mudd College was founded in 1955. [7] [8] Classes began in 1957 with a class of 48 students, 7 faculty and one building–Mildred E. Mudd Hall, a dormitory.Classes and meals took place at Claremont Men's College (Claremont McKenna College), and labs in the Baxter Science Building until additional buildings could be built: Jacobs Science Building (1959), Thomas-Garett Hall (1961) and ...