In late November, the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at Claremont McKenna released their fall semester edition of Motif, a student-run creative arts magazine. The issue included a variety of art mediums, from poetry and creative essays to pencil sketches and nail art. In the editorial board’s introductory letter, they said they were “thrilled to support CMC artists and creatives.”

The majors listed on our diplomas and qualifications inventoried on our resumes say far less about us than the intangible things that actually give our lives meaning, though we seem to forget that. The university was not always seen as a stepping stone into the corporate world or the endless frontier of networking. In the American university system’s original conception, colleges were meant to help students in their pursuit of the good, true, and beautiful. The university was

A liberal arts college with hardly over a thousand students and a billion dollar endowment, one-fifth of Claremont McKenna’s student body was drawn from the top 1% in 2017. This was not my reality. Neither of my parents completed high school, so how could I have ended up in Claremont? After a low-income upbringing, I owe my presence here to the Questbridge scholarship program for underprivileged students. Programs like this are made possible in part by the boons of legacy adm

Crime and Punishment. Photo Credit: Elizabeth Thompsen . Last spring, Josh Morganstein CMC ‘25 and I took “Dostoevsky’s Russia” with...

Charlie Kirk, right-wing commentator and father of two, was shot and killed Wednesday while speaking to a crowd of college students. Only two days earlier, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression released its 2026 report about free speech on America’s college campuses. 

Photo Credit: wiredforlego On paper, the Claremont Colleges present a unified commitment to inclusion, openness, and intellectual...

Construction work on the Robert Day Integrated Sciences Center. As the final panels are placed on the Robert Day Integrated Sciences...

Claremont McKenna's Center for Writing and Public Discourse. Alexandra Wofford contributed reporting. This spring, we were hired by...

Sir Salman Rushdie at the 2014 PEN America/Free Expression Literature Conference (credit: Ed Lederman/PEN American Center ) On April 25,...

Image via Claremont McKenna College . Much ink has been spilled over the decision of Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr to...

Image Credit: Baxter Brew On Friday, January 24, CMC faculty voted  to recommend that the Board of Trustees reinstate the school’s...

Image credit: Baxter Brew Thankfully, mental health has largely escaped the antiquated corner into which our parents’ generation pushed...

Posters set up outside Carnegie Hall. On October 23, a statement from Pomona College President Gabi Starr announced that ten students had...

Image via Calisphere. Copyright Honnold Mudd Library . As a freshman eagerly anticipating my arrival at CMC, I couldn’t wait for my...

Student protesters on October 7th. Lenny Fukshansky is a professor of mathematics at Claremont McKenna. A version of this article was...

Protesters blocking the entrance to Carnegie Hall. I attended October 7th’s pro-Palestine protests  as a reporter for the Independent ,...

Image via Flickr. Copyright The Review University of Delaware. The average CMC graduate owes the federal government $13,962 in student...

Image via Flickr. Copyright of Carpathiar . In a 2016 essay titled How My Friends and I Wrecked Pomona College ,  alumnus Harry Stein recounts how he helped precipitate a surge of anti-war activism in 1960s Claremont. His most prominent revolutionary exploit concerned Pomona’s career services office, which activists determined must not be allowed to funnel the bright minds of Pomona College into “objectionable” employment: the spineless Dow Chemical, the imperial U.S. Air For

Photograph from 2y.kang. For years, standardized test scores were the primary metric used by admissions officers. Last year, more than 80...

Colorful flags waved outside the European Union (EU) headquarters in Brussels on June 23, 2022. Inside, 27 EU leaders, protected by a...