Claremont Independent

(5/11/08) -- CMC's Robert Day School of Economics and Finance has accepted its first undergraduate students to the Robert Day Scholars Program, which was made possible by alumnus Robert A. Day's unprecedented $200 million grant to the college last year. These first 20 Robert Day Scholars, as they are called, are all 5C students who will matriculate in the program next year as seniors.… Post the First Comment

Claremont McKenna College history professor Jonathan Petropoulos will resign as director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights effective summer 2008. Dean of Faculty Gregory Hess made the announcement to CMC professors at a meeting on April 8.… 1 Comment

(5/11/08) -- The new president of the Black Student Union (BSU) at Pitzer, Jeanine Daniels, is seeking formal authorization to convert a room on Pitzer's campus into a "safe place for black students," to redress what the group sees as a misrepresentation of diversity on campus by the college's administration.… Post the First Comment

From March 24 to April 6, five of the seven Claremont consortium presidents travelled from Singapore through Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing as part of a 25-member delegation of faculty, administrators, and trustees, working to raise the profile of the consortium in Asia.… Post the First Comment

Claremont McKenna College's administration first learned of the Pissarro affair in early August 2007 when Dean of Faculty Gregory Hess and John V. Croul Professor of History Jonathan Petropoulos met for coffee at Starbucks. The situation, which has received significant mention in the European press, involves Petropoulos in a controversial effort to restitute a Nazi-looted painting to its rightful owner, in which his associate, a Munich art dealer, has been investigated for blackmail.… 18 Comments