The Claremont Colleges are a consortium of five undergraduate and two graduate schools of higher education located in Claremont, California. Unlike most other collegiate consortia, such as the Five Colleges Consortium in Massachusetts and the Tri-College Consortium in Pennsylvania, the Claremont College campuses are adjoining and within reasonable walking distance of one another. Put together, the campuses cover roughly one square mile. Claremont is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, USA, about 30 miles (45 km) east of downtown Los Angeles at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in the Pomona Valley. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The Five Colleges are composed of four liberal arts colleges and one university in the Connecticut River Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, belonging to a consortium called Five Colleges, Incorporated, which was established in 1965. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... The Tri-College Consortium consists of three Pennsylvania Main Line private liberal arts colleges: Haverford College, Swarthmore College and Bryn Mawr College. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ...

The purpose of the consortium is to provide the specialization, flexibility and personal attention commonly found in a small college, with the resources of a large university. Their compartmentalized collegiate university design was inspired by Oxford University.^{[citation needed]}James A. Blaisdell, the creator of the Claremont Colleges, declared in 1923 "My own very deep hope is that instead of one great, undifferentiated university, we might have a group of institutions divided into small colleges-somewhat of an Oxford type-around a library and other utilities which they would use in common. In this way, I should hope to preserve the inestimable personal values of the small college, while securing the facilities of the great university." In the United Kingdom, a collegiate university is a university whose functions are divided between the central departments of the university and a number of colleges. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... James Arnold Blaisdell (1867-1957) was a minister, theologian and most notably the third president of Pomona College (1910-1927) and founder and “Head Fellow” of the Claremont Colleges (1927-1935). ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Julio Pérez Ferrero Library - Cúcuta, Colombia A modern-style library in Chambéry A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, and services: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. ...

The Wall Street Journal wrote that the five undergraduate Claremont colleges are the "intellectual capital of the western world," a statement that appears in many college guides.^{[citation needed]} The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ...

Colleges

Claremont McKenna College

Pomona College

Scripps College

Harvey Mudd College

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• Claremont McKenna College, a small, coeducational, liberal arts college which specializes in economics, political science, international relations, and public policy. It also maintains a broad set of majors in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
• Harvey Mudd College, a small, coeducational college specializing in engineering, mathematics, computer science, and the physical and biological sciences.
• Pitzer College, a small, coeducational, liberal arts college offering an alternative curriculum, noted for interdisciplinarity. It also has a particular emphasis upon social justice. Pitzer is part of the SAT optional movement among liberal arts colleges.
• Pomona College, a small, coeducational, liberal arts college which offers majors in both the sciences and humanities.
• Scripps College, a small, liberal arts, women's college, which offers majors in both the sciences and humanities.

The five undergraduate Claremont Colleges are commonly referred to as the "5Cs."^{[citation needed]} A member of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont McKenna College is a small, highly selective, private coeducational, liberal arts college enrolling about 1100 students with a curricular emphasis on government, economics, and public policy. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of higher education in the United States which are primarily liberal arts colleges. ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Political Science is the field concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behaviour. ... Foreign affairs redirects here. ... Public policy is a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a problem. ... The term natural science as the way in which different fields of study are defined is determined as much by historical convention as by the present day meaning of the words. ... The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. ... For other uses, see Humanities (disambiguation). ... Harvey Mudd College is a highly selective, private college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... Engineering is the discipline of acquiring and applying knowledge of design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. ... For other meanings of mathematics or uses of math and maths, see Mathematics (disambiguation) and Math (disambiguation). ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... == Headline text ==cant there be some kind of picture somewhere so i can see by picture???? Physical science is a encompassing term for the branches of natural science, and science, that study non-living systems, in contrast to the biological sciences. ... Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology is the science of life (from the Greek words bios = life and logos = word). ... Pitzer College is a small, highly selective, private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont, California, a college town approximately 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of higher education in the United States which are primarily liberal arts colleges. ... In education, the phrase alternative school usually refers to a school based on a non-traditional, new, or non-standard educational philosophy. ... For a curriculum vitae, see Résumé. In formal education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. ... Interdisciplinarity is the act of drawing from two or more academic disciplines and integrating their insights to work together in pursuit of a common goal. ... Social justice refers to the concept of an unjust society that refers to more than just the administration of laws. ... Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of higher education in the United States which are primarily liberal arts colleges. ... The Reba Taylor Stover Memorial Fountain in the Smith Campus Center courtyard at Pomona College during the inauguration of College President David Oxtoby Pomona College is a private residential liberal arts college located 33 miles (53 km) east of downtown Los Angeles in Claremont, California. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of higher education in the United States which are primarily liberal arts colleges. ... Scripps College is a liberal arts womens college in Claremont, California. ... Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of higher education in the United States which are primarily liberal arts colleges. ... Womens colleges in the United States in higher education are American undergraduate, bachelors degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are comprised exclusively or almost exclusively of women. ...

The two graduate universities are:

• Claremont Graduate University
• Keck Graduate Institute, a biomedical graduate school

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Shared facilities, programs, and resources

Each college is independent in that, for example, students receive their degrees from the one college in which they are enrolled and administration and admissions departments are independent. However, large or expensive facilities and programs are shared.^{[citation needed]}

Shared academic departments include the Intercollegiate Women's Studies Center, the Intercollegiate Department of Chicano Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Religious Studies, and the Five-College Theater Department. For other uses, see Chicano (disambiguation). ... An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...

Shared intercollegiate programs include the European Union Center of California, the Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Center, the Office of Black Student Affairs, the Office of the Chaplains, Hillel, the Asian American Resource Center, the Queer Resource Center, and the Women's Union. The Colleges also coordinate budgets and course schedules to allow for cross-registration.^{[citation needed]} For other uses, see Chicano (disambiguation). ... For the Brazilian pop singer, see Latino (singer). ...

Honnold/Mudd Library

Shared facilities include the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges, Campus Safety, the Tranquada Student Services Center (which houses Baxter Medical Center, Monsour Counseling Center, and the Health Education Outreach,) McAlister Center (home of the Office of the Chaplains and the Claremont Card Center), Huntley Bookstore, all dining facilities and several sports facilities. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2576x1932, 678 KB) Summary Creator: Jarod Hightower-Mills Source: Uploaded by creator Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2576x1932, 678 KB) Summary Creator: Jarod Hightower-Mills Source: Uploaded by creator Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...

The oldest 5C student newspaper is The Collage, and is wholly independent from the Colleges.

In addition, three of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, and Scripps College, share a single, joint science program. These three colleges pool their resources to create the largest academic department in Claremont. There are no graduate studies that take place there. However, the Joint Science Department asserts that the intimacy of the department and amount of undergrads that perform research is outstanding. Research is conducted at and courses utilize the Robert J. Bernard Field Station, an 86 acre nature preserve of native Coastal Sage Scrub ecosystem. For more information regarding the field station click here: [1]. A coral reef near the Hawaiian islands is an example of a complex marine ecosystem. ...

KSPC 88.7 FM is the non-profit community radio station associated with the Claremont Colleges. Students from the colleges host KSPC shows and help run the station. KSPC is a non-commercial radio station in Claremont, California, broadcasting on 88. ... Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more powerful broadcast groups. ...

Athletics

Athletics teams from Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College and Scripps College compete as one team. Male athletic teams are called the Stags, and women's teams are called the Athenas.^{[citation needed]} The teams participate in the NCAA's Division III and in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). Pomona College and Pitzer College compete together in the SCIAC. Their team is called the Sagehens.^{[citation needed]} The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A or N-C-Two-A ) is a voluntary association of about 1,200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) is a College Athletic Conference that operates in the NCAAs Division III. It consists of eleven small private schools which are located in Southern California and organized into eight athletic programs. ...

In addition to the Stag/Athenas and the Sagehens, there are several prominent 5C club sports teams, including men's and women's rugby union, both of whom attended Division II Nationals in 2006, men's lacrosse, field hockey, crew, cycling, women's ultimate frisbee (The Greenshirts), who attended Nationals in 2004 , and men's ultimate frisbee, (The Braineaters), who were ranked 26th in the nation in 2006, missing their chance at Nationals by one game against UCSB. For other uses, see Rugby (disambiguation). ... Lacrosse is a spring and summer team sport played by two teams of ten players each who use netted sticks (called crosses in French) in order to project a small rubber ball into the opponents goal. ... A game of field hockey in progress Field hockey is a sport for men, women and children in many countries around the world. ... Ultimate Frisbee is a competitive non-contact team sport played with a Frisbee or similar flying disc most commonly weighing 175 g. ...

Additionally, the Claremont Men's Volleyball Club had its inaugural season in 2007. Despite its novelty, it proved to be one of the most successful clubs this season, finishing in 5th place out of 48 Division II teams at the National Championship in Louisville, Kentucky. For the ball used in this sport, see Volleyball (ball). ... Louisville redirects here. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ...

Administration

All seven Claremont Colleges are served by the Claremont University Consortium. The Claremont University Consortium administers the Claremont Colleges system in Claremont, California. ...

External links

• Claremont Colleges