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Pomona College

February 16, 2024

Not to be confused with California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Pomona College (/pəˈmoʊnə/ ⓘ pə-MOH-nə[4]) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type"[5] in Southern California. In 1925, it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions.

Pomona College
TypePrivate liberal arts college
EstablishedOctober 14, 1887 (1887-10-14)
Academic affiliation
Claremont Colleges
Endowment$2.8 billion (2023)
Budget$259 million (2023)
PresidentG. Gabrielle Starr
Academic staff
278
Total staff
880
Undergraduates1,735
Location
Claremont
,
California
,
United States

34°05′53″N 117°42′50″W / 34.09806°N 117.71389°W / 34.09806; -117.71389
CampusSuburban, 140 acres (57 ha)
ColorsBlue and white[1][a]
   
NicknameSagehens
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division III – SCIAC
MascotCecil the Sagehen
Websitewww.pomona.edu

Pomona is a four-year undergraduate institution that enrolled approximately 1,700 students as of the fall 2023 semester. It offers 48 majors in liberal arts disciplines and roughly 650 courses, as well as access to more than 2,000 additional courses at the other Claremont Colleges. Its 140-acre (57 ha) campus is in a residential community 35 miles (56 km) east of downtown Los Angeles, near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U.S. liberal arts college as of 2021 and is considered the most prestigious liberal arts college in the American West and one of the most prestigious in the country.[6] It has a $2.8 billion endowment as of June 2023, making it one of the 10 wealthiest schools in the U.S. on a per student basis. Nearly all students live on campus, and the student body is noted for its racial,[7][8][9] geographic,[10] and socioeconomic[8][11][9] diversity. The college's athletics teams, the Sagehens, compete jointly with Pitzer College in the SCIAC, a Division III conference.

Prominent alumni of Pomona include Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony award winners; U.S. Senators, ambassadors, and other federal officials; Pulitzer Prize recipients; billionaire executives; a Nobel Prize laureate; National Academies members; and Olympic athletes.[12] The college is a top producer of Fulbright scholars[13] and recipients of other fellowships.

History edit

Founding era edit

 
An exterior view of the college in 1907, featuring its two earliest buildings: Sumner Hall (right) and Holmes Hall (left)[14]

Pomona College was established as a coeducational and nonsectarian Christian institution on October 14, 1887, amidst a real estate boom and anticipated population influx precipitated by the arrival of a transcontinental railroad to Southern California.[15][16] Its founders, a regional group of Congregationalists, sought to create a "college of the New England type", emulating the institutions where many of them had been educated.[15][5][17] Classes first began at Ayer Cottage, a rental house in Pomona, California, on September 12, 1888, with a permanent campus planned at Piedmont Mesa four miles north of the city.[15][18] That year, as the real estate bubble burst, making the Piedmont campus financially untenable, the college was offered the site of an unfinished hotel (later renamed Sumner Hall[14]) in the nearby, recently founded town of Claremont. It moved there[18] but kept its name.[19][20][b] Trustee Charles B. Sumner led the college during its first years, helping hire its first official president, Cyrus G. Baldwin, in 1890.[19][18][22] The first graduating class, in 1894, had 11 members.[23][24]

 
U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Pomona in 1903[25]

Pomona suffered through a severe financial crisis during its early years,[14][24][26] but raised enough money to add several buildings to its campus.[27][28] Although the first Asian and black students enrolled in 1897[29] and 1900,[30] respectively, the student body (like most others of the era) remained almost all white throughout this period.[24][31][32] In 1905, during president George A. Gates' tenure, the college acquired a 64-acre (26 ha) parcel of land to its east known as the Wash.[33][34] In 1911, as high schools became more common in the region, the college eliminated its preparatory department, which had taught pre-college level courses.[35][36] The following year, it committed to a liberal arts model,[37] soon after turning its previously separate schools of art and music into departments within the college.[38][39] In 1914, the Phi Beta Kappa honor society established a chapter at the college.[40][41] Daily attendance at chapel was mandated until 1921,[42][43] and student culture emphasized athletics[44][45] and academic class rivalries.[46][47] During World War I, male students were divided into three military companies and a Red Cross unit to assist in the war effort.[48][49][50]

Mid-20th century edit

 
Reserve Officers' Training Corps soldiers at Pomona in 1942

Confronted with growing demand in the 1920s, Pomona's fourth president, James A. Blaisdell, considered whether to grow the college into a large university that could acquire additional resources or remain a small institution capable of providing a more intimate educational experience. Seeking both, he pursued an alternative path inspired by the collegiate university model he observed at Oxford, envisioning a group of independent colleges sharing centralized resources such as a library.[51][52] On October 14, 1925, Pomona's 38th anniversary, the college founded the Claremont Colleges consortium.[53][54] Construction of the Clark dormitories on North Campus (then the men's campus) began in 1929, a reflection of president Charles Edmunds' prioritization of the college's residential life.[55][56][57] Edmunds, who had previously served as president of Lingnan University in Guangzhou, China, inspired a growing interest in Asian culture at the college and established its Asian studies program.[58][56]

Pomona's enrollment declined during the Great Depression as students became unable to afford tuition, and its budget was slashed by a quarter.[59][60][61] The college reoriented itself toward wartime activities again during World War II,[62][63][64] hosting an Air Force military meteorology program[65] and Army Specialized Training Program courses in engineering and foreign languages.[66][67]

Postwar transformations edit

Pomona's longest-serving president, E. Wilson Lyon, guided the college through a transformational and turbulent period from 1941 to 1969.[62][68] The college's enrollment rose above 1,000 following the war,[46][69] leading to the construction of several residence halls and science facilities.[70][71] Its endowment grew steadily, due in part to the introduction in 1942 of a deferred giving fundraising scheme pioneered by Allen Hawley called the Pomona Plan, where participants receive a lifetime annuity in exchange for donating to the college upon their death.[64][72][73] The plan's model has since been adopted by many other colleges.[74][75][76]

 
Men protesting the opening of Frary Dining Hall to women in 1957[77]

Lyon made several progressive decisions relating to civil rights, including supporting Japanese-American students during internment[63][78][79] and establishing an exchange program in 1952 with Fisk University, a historically black university in Tennessee.[80][81][82] He and dean of women Jean Walton ended the gender segregation of Pomona's residential life, first with the opening of Frary Dining Hall (then part of the men's campus) to women beginning in 1957[77] and later with the elimination of parietal rules in the late 1960s[83] and the introduction of co-educational housing in 1968.[84][85] The student body, influenced by the countercultural revolution, became less socially conservative and more politically engaged in this era.[86][87][62] Protesters opposed to the Vietnam War occupied Sumner Hall to obstruct Air Force recruiters in 1968[88][89][90] and forced the cancellation of classes at the end of the spring 1970 semester.[91][92] The college's ethnic diversity also began to increase,[93][94][95] and activists successfully pushed the consortium to establish black and Latino studies programs in 1969.[31][95][96] A bomb exploded at the Carnegie Building that February, permanently injuring a secretary; no culprit was ever identified.[95][97][98][99]

During the tenure of president David Alexander from 1969 to 1991, Pomona gained increased prominence on the national stage.[100] The endowment increased ten-fold, enabling the construction and renovation of a number of buildings.[95] Several identity-based groups, such as the Pomona College Women's Union (founded in 1984),[101] were established.[102] In the mid-1980s, out-of-state students began to outnumber in-state students.[103]

In 1991, the college converted the dormitory basements used by fraternities into lounges, arguing that this created a more equitable distribution of campus space. The move lowered the profile of Greek life on campus.[104][105]

21st century edit

 
Pomona's Studio Art Hall, completed in 2014, garnered national recognition for its steel-frame design.[106][107][108]

In the 2000s, under president David W. Oxtoby, Pomona began placing more emphasis on reducing its environmental impact,[109][110] committing in 2003 to obtaining LEED certifications for new buildings[111][112] and launching various sustainability initiatives.[109][111] The college also entered partnerships with several college access groups (including the Posse Foundation in 2004 and QuestBridge in 2005[113]) and committed to meeting the full demonstrated financial need of students through grants rather than loans in 2008.[114] These efforts, combined with Pomona's previously instituted[115] need-blind admission policy, resulted in increased enrollment of low-income and racial minority students.[116][117]

In 2008, it was discovered that Pomona's alma mater may have been originally written to be sung as the ensemble finale to a student-produced blackface minstrel show performed on campus in 1910. The college stopped singing it at convocation and commencement, alienating some alumni.[110][118][119]

Pomona requested proof of legal residency from employees amid a unionization drive by dining hall workers in 2011.[120][121] Seventeen workers who were unable to provide documentation were fired, drawing national media attention and sparking criticism from activists;[120][122] the dining hall staff voted to unionize in 2013.[123][124][125] A rebranding initiative that year sought to emphasize students' passion and drive, angering students who thought it would lead to a more stressful culture.[126] Several protests in the 2010s criticized the college's handling of sexual assault,[127][128] leading to various reforms.[129][130]

In 2017,[131] G. Gabrielle Starr became Pomona's tenth president; she is the first woman and first African American to hold the office.[132][133] From March 2020 through the spring 2021 semester, the college switched to online instruction in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[134][135]

Campus edit

 
Map of Pomona College's campus[147][148]
  Academic instruction
  Administration and services
  Arts venues
  Housing and dining
  Open spaces
  Sports and recreation
  Pomona College boundary
  Claremont Colleges boundary
  Other Claremont Colleges
 
Pomona's buildings are connected via a network of visual axes, such as this one on North Campus.[148]

Pomona's 140-acre (57 ha) campus is in Claremont, California, an affluent suburban residential community[149] 35 miles (56 km) east of downtown Los Angeles.[54] It is directly northwest of the Claremont Village (the city's downtown commercial district) and directly south of the other contiguous Claremont Colleges.[150] The area has a Mediterranean climate[151] and consists of a gentle slope from the alluvial fan of San Antonio Creek in the San Gabriel Mountains to the north.[152][148]

In its early years, Pomona quickly expanded from its initial home in Sumner Hall, constructing several buildings to accommodate its growing enrollment and ambitions.[153][28] After 1908, development of the campus was guided by master plans from architect Myron Hunt, who envisioned a central quadrangle flanked by buildings connected via visual axes.[148] In 1923, landscape architect Ralph Cornell expanded on Hunt's plans, envisioning a "college in a garden" defined by native Southern California vegetation[148] but incorporating global influences in the tradition of the acclimatization movement.[154][155] President James Blaisdell's decision to purchase undeveloped land around Pomona while it was still available later gave the college room to grow and found the consortium.[156] Many of the earlier buildings were constructed in the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles, with stucco walls and red terracotta tile roofs.[49] Other and later construction incorporated elements of neoclassical, Victorian, Italian Romanesque, modern, and postmodern styles.[148] As a result, the present campus features a blend of architectural styles.[157] Most buildings are three or fewer stories in height,[147] and are designed to facilitate both indoor and outdoor use.[157]

 
Dialynas and Sontag residence halls, built 2011, are LEED Platinum certified.[158][159]
(view as a 360° interactive panorama)

The campus consists of 88 facilities as of 2023,[160] including 70 addressed buildings.[161] It is bounded by First Street on the south, Mills and Amherst Avenues on the east, Eighth Street on the north, and Harvard Avenue on the west.[147] It is informally divided into North Campus and South Campus by Sixth Street,[162] with most academic buildings in the western half and a naturalistic area known as the Wash in the east.[147] It has been featured in numerous films and television shows, often standing in for other schools.[163][164]

Pomona has undertaken initiatives to make its campus more sustainable, including requiring that all new construction be built to LEED Gold standards,[165] replacing turf with drought-tolerant landscaping,[166] and committing to achieving carbon neutrality without the aid of purchased carbon credits by 2030.[167] The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education gave the college a gold rating in its 2018 Sustainable Campus Index.[168]

South Campus edit

 
The Stanley Academic Quadrangle is home to many of Pomona's humanities departments.
(view as a 360° interactive panorama)

South Campus consists of mostly first-year and second-year housing and academic buildings for the social sciences, arts, and humanities.[147]

A row of four residence halls is south of Bonita Avenue, with Frank Dining Hall at the eastern end.[147] Sumner Hall, the home of admissions and several other administrative departments, is to the north of the dormitories.[147] Oldenborg Center, a foreign-language housing option that includes a foreign-language dining hall, is across from Sumner.[169]

 
Marston Quadrangle forms the center of Pomona's campus.
(view as a 360° interactive panorama)

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.[170][171] Bridges Hall of Music ("Little Bridges") is a concert hall with seating for 550.[172] On the western edge of campus is the Benton Museum of Art, which has a collection of approximately 19,000 items,[173] including Italian Renaissance panel paintings, indigenous American art and artifacts, and American and European prints, drawings, and photographs.[174][175] The Seaver Theatre Complex has a 335-seat thrust stage theater and 125-seat black box theater, among other facilities.[176] The Studio Art Hall garnered national recognition for its steel-frame design when it was completed in 2014.[106][107][108]

Pomona's main social science and humanities buildings are located west of College Avenue. They include the Carnegie Building, a neoclassical structure built in 1908 as a Carnegie library.[147][177] Several historic Victorian houses line the southern portion of the avenue, including the Queen Anne–style Renwick House, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.[178][179]

Marston Quadrangle, a 5-acre (2 ha) lawn framed by California sycamore and coastal redwood trees, serves as a central artery for the campus, anchored by Carnegie on the west and Bridges Auditorium on the east.[148] To its north is Alexander Hall, the college's central administration building,[147] and the Smith Campus Center (SCC), home to many student services and communal spaces.[180] East of the SCC is the Center for Athletics, Recreation and Wellness (Pomona's primary indoor athletics and recreation facility) and Smiley Hall dormitory, built in 1908.[147]

 
The college gates historically marked the northern edge of Pomona's campus.

At the intersection of Sixth Street and College Avenue are the college gates, built in 1914, which mark the historical northern edge of the campus. They bear two quotes from President Blaisdell. On the north is "let only the eager, thoughtful and reverent enter here", and on the south is "They only are loyal to this college who departing bear their added riches in trust for mankind". Per campus tradition, enrolling students walk south through the gates during orientation and seniors walk north through them shortly before graduation.[181][182]

The less-developed 40-acre (16 ha)[148] eastern portion of the campus is known as the Wash (formally Blanchard Park[160]),[34] and contains a large grove of coast live oak trees,[154] as well as many of the college's athletics facilities,[183] an outdoor amphitheater, an astronomical observatory, and the Pomona College Organic Farm, an experiment in sustainable agriculture.[147]

North Campus edit

 
Prometheus mural in Frary Dining Hall

North Campus was designed by architect Sumner Spaulding, and its initial phase was completed in 1930.[184] It consists primarily of residential buildings for third- and fourth-year students and academic buildings for the natural sciences.[147]

The academic buildings are located to the west of North College Way. This area includes Dividing the Light (2007), a skyspace by Light and Space artist and alumnus James Turrell.[185][186]

The residence halls include the Clark halls (I, III, and V[c]) and several more recent constructions.[147] The North Campus dining hall, Frary Dining Hall, features a vaulted ceiling and is the location of the murals Prometheus (1930) by José Clemente Orozco, the first Mexican fresco in the U.S.,[187] and Genesis (1960) by Rico Lebrun.[188]

Other facilities edit

The college owns the 53-acre (21 ha) Trails Ends Ranch (a wilderness area in the Webb Canyon north of campus),[189][190] the 320-acre (130 ha) Mildred Pitt Ranch in southeastern Monterey County,[191] and the Halona Lodge retreat center in Idyllwild, California.[192] The astronomy department built and operates a telescope at the Table Mountain Observatory in Big Pines, California.[138]

Along the north side of campus are several joint buildings maintained by The Claremont Colleges Services. The Claremont Colleges Library (also known as Honnold/Mudd Library) holds more than 2.7 million items as of 2020, of which 1.1 million are physical and 1.7 million are digital.[193] The consortium also owns the Robert J. Bernard Field Station north of Foothill Boulevard.[194]

Organization and administration edit

Governance edit

 
President G. Gabrielle Starr in 2023

Pomona is governed as a private, nonprofit organization by a board of trustees responsible for overseeing the long-term interests of the college.[195] The board consists of up to 42 members, most of whom are elected by existing members to four-year terms with a term limit of 12 years.[d][195] It is responsible for hiring the college's president (G. Gabrielle Starr since 2017[196]), approving budgets, setting overarching policies, and various other tasks.[195] The president, in turn, oversees the college's general operation, assisted by administrative staff and a faculty cabinet.[195] The college has 880 total employees as of the fall 2022 semester.[197] Pomona operates under a shared governance model, in which faculty and students sit on many policymaking committees and have a degree of control over other major decisions.[198][199][200]

Academic affiliations edit

Further information: Claremont Colleges
 
Honnold Library, a shared Claremont Colleges resource

Pomona is the founding member of the Claremont Colleges (colloquially "7Cs", for "seven colleges"), a consortium of five undergraduate liberal arts colleges ("5Cs")—Pomona, Scripps, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, and Pitzer—and two graduate schools—Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute. All are located in Claremont. Although each member has individual autonomy and a distinct identity,[201] there is substantial collaboration through The Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS), a coordinating entity that manages the central library, campus safety services, health services, and other resources.[202] Overall, the 7Cs have been praised by higher education experts for their close cooperation,[203] although there have been occasional tensions.[204][205] Pomona is the largest undergraduate[205] and wealthiest member.[206]

Pomona is a member of several other consortia of selective colleges, including the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges,[207] the Oberlin Group,[208] and the Annapolis Group.[209] The college is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission, which reaffirmed its status in 2021 with particular praise for its diversity initiatives.[210][211]

Finances, costs, and financial aid edit

 
Pomona's office of financial aid is in Sumner Hall.

Pomona has an endowment of $2.8 billion as of June 2023,[212] giving it one of the 10 highest endowments per student of any college or university in the U.S.[213] The college's total assets (including its campus) are valued at $3.67 billion.[212] Its operating budget for the 2023‍–‍2024 academic year was $259 million,[214] of which roughly half was funded by endowment earnings.[215] In 2022, 43% of the budget was allocated to instruction, 2% to research, 1% to public service, 14% to academic support, 16% to student services, and 25% to institutional support.[216] In 2021, Fitch Ratings gave the college a AAA bond credit rating, its highest rating, reflecting an "extremely strong financial profile".[217]

For the 2023‍–‍2024 academic year, Pomona charged a tuition fee of $61,906,[218] with a total estimated on-campus cost of attendance of $88,296.[218] In 2023‍–‍2024, 52% of students received a financial aid package, with an average award of $63,044, including 38% of international students, who received an average award of $73,927.[219] The college meets the full demonstrated need of all admitted students, including international students,[220] through grants rather than loans.[221] It does not offer merit awards or athletic scholarships.[219]

Academics and programs edit

 
Bridges Hall of Music hosts a variety of performances by the college's musical ensembles.

Pomona offers instruction in the liberal arts disciplines and awards the Bachelor of Arts degree.[222] The college operates on a semester system,[223] with a normal course load of four full-credit classes per semester.[224] 32 credits and a C average GPA are needed to graduate, along with the requirements of a major, a first-year critical inquiry seminar, at least one course in each of six "breadth of study" areas,[e] proficiency in a foreign language, two physical education courses, a writing-intensive course, a speaking-intensive course, and an "analyzing difference" course (typically examining a type of structural inequality).[225]

Pomona offers 48 majors,[222] most of which also have a corresponding minor.[f][226] For the 2023 graduation cohort, 21% of students majored in the arts and humanities, 39% in the natural sciences, 24% in the social sciences, and 16% in interdisciplinary fields.[227] 19% of students completed a double major, 29% completed a minor, and 2% completed multiple minors.[228] The college does not permit majoring in pre-professional disciplines such as medicine or law but offers academic advising for those areas[229][230] and 3-2 engineering programs with Caltech, Dartmouth, and Washington University.[231]

Courses edit

Individually, Pomona offers approximately 650 courses per semester.[232] Additionally, students may take a significant portion[g] of their courses at the other Claremont Colleges, enabling access to approximately 2,700 courses total.[224] The academic calendars and registration procedures across the colleges are synchronized and consolidated,[233] and there are no additional fees for cross-enrollment.[103] Students may also create independent study courses evaluated by faculty mentors.[234]

 
Estella Laboratory, opened in 2015, houses Pomona's physics, astronomy, and math programs.

All classes at Pomona are taught by professors (as opposed to teaching assistants).[235][198] The average class size is 15;[232] for the fall 2023 semester, 92% of traditional courses[h] had under 30 students, and only two courses had 50 or more students.[219] The college employs 278 faculty members as of the fall 2023 semester,[214] approximately four-fifths of whom are full-time,[219] resulting in a 7∶1 ratio of students to full-time equivalent professors.[219] Among full-time faculty, 36% are members of racial minority groups, 52% are women, and 96% have a doctorate or other terminal degree in their field.[219] Students and professors often form close relationships,[236][198][237] and the college provides faculty with free meals to encourage them to eat with students.[200] Semesters end with a week-long final examination period preceded by two reading days.[238] The college operates several resource centers to help students develop academic skills in quantitative tasks,[239][240] writing,[241] and foreign languages.[242]

Research, study abroad, and professional development edit

More than half of Pomona students conduct research with faculty.[243][244] The college sponsors an annual Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), in which more than 200 students are paid a stipend of up to $5,600 to conduct research with professors or pursue independent research projects with professorial mentorship.[245][246] The Pomona College Humanities Studio, established in 2018, supports research in the humanities.[247] Pomona is home to the Pacific Basin Institute, a research institute that studies issues pertaining to the Pacific Rim.[248] The Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity, colloquially termed "the Hive", was established in 2015 to support creative learning.[249][250]

Approximately half of Pomona students study abroad.[243] As of 2023, the college offers 69 pre-approved programs in 39 countries.[251] Study-away programs are available for Washington, D.C., Silicon Valley, and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, and semester exchanges are offered at Colby, Spelman, and Swarthmore colleges.[231]

 
Pomona's Career Development Office is in Alexander Hall.

The Pomona College Career Development Office (CDO) provides students and alumni with career advising, networking, and other pre-professional opportunities. It runs the Pomona College Internship Program (PCIP), which provides stipends for completing unpaid or underpaid internships during the semester or summer; more than 250 students participate annually.[252][253] The office connects students with alumni for networking and mentoring via the Sagehen Connect platform.[254] During the 2015‍–‍2016 academic year, 175 employers hosted on-site informational events at the Claremont Colleges and 265 unique organizations were represented in 9 career fairs.[255]

Outcomes edit

 
Dinner at a Pomona alumni weekend

For the 2022 entering class, 96% of students returned for their second year,[256] giving Pomona one of the highest retention rates of any college or university in the U.S.[257] For the 2017 entering class, 71% of students graduated within four years (among the highest rate of any U.S. college or university[258]) and 93% graduated within six years.[219]

Within 10 years, 81% of Pomona graduates attend graduate or professional school, according to a 2017 alumni survey.[243] The college ranked 11th among all U.S. colleges and universities for doctorates awarded to alumni per capita, according to data collected by the National Science Foundation for 2012 to 2021.[259] The top destinations between 2009 and 2018 (in order) were the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; the University of Southern California; and Stanford University.[260] A 2023 analysis of the schools that send the most students per capita to the highest-ranked U.S. medical, business, and law schools placed Pomona 17th for medical schools,[261] 22nd for business schools,[262] and 14th for law schools.[263]

The top industries for graduates are technology; education; consulting and professional services; finance; government, law, and politics; arts, entertainment, and media; healthcare and social services; nonprofits; and research.[264][265][266] Pomona alumni earn a median early career salary of $73,700 and a median mid-career salary of $146,400, according to 2023 survey data from compensation analytics company PayScale.[267]

Pomona ranks among the top producers of recipients of various competitive postgraduate fellowships, including the Churchill Scholarship,[268] Fulbright Program,[13][269][270] Goldwater Scholarship,[271] Marshall Scholarship,[272] National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship,[273] and Rhodes Scholarship.[274]

Reputation and rankings edit

Pomona is considered the most prestigious liberal arts college in the Western United States and one of the most prestigious in the country.[6] However, among the broader public, it has less name recognition than many larger schools.[279][280]

The 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking places Pomona fourth in the national liberal arts colleges category out of 211 colleges.[275] Pomona has been ranked in the top 10 liberal arts colleges every year by U.S. News since it began ranking them in 1984, and is one of five schools with such a history, alongside Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, and Williams.[281]

Pomona has rated similarly in other college rankings.[282] In 2015, the Forbes ranking placed it first among all colleges and universities in the U.S., drawing media attention.[283] Pomona is the third most desirable college or university in the U.S., according to a 2020 analysis of admitted students' revealed preferences among their college choices conducted by the digital credential service Parchment.[284]

People edit

Admissions edit

Admissions statistics
2023 entering
class[219]Change vs.
2018[285][243]
Admit rate6.8%
(  −0.8)
Yield rate50%
(  −3)
Test scores middle 50%*
SAT EBRW730–770
(  +20 median)
SAT Math750–790
(  +25 median)
ACT Composite33–35
(  +1 median)
High school GPA†
Top 10%85%
(  −6)
Top 25%97%
(  −3)
Top 50%100%
(  no change)
  • *2023 data among students who chose to submit
  • †Among students whose school ranked

Pomona offers three routes for students to apply: the Common Application, the QuestBridge application, and the Coalition Application. Applicants who want an earlier, binding decision can apply via early decision I or II; others apply through regular decision.[286] Additionally, the college enrolls two 10-student[287] Posse Foundation cohorts, from Chicago and Miami, in each class.[288]

Pomona considers various factors in its admissions process, placing greatest importance on course rigor, class rank, GPA, application essays, recommendations, extracurricular activities, talent, and character. Interviews, test scores, first generation status, geographic residence, volunteer work, and work experience are considered. Alumni relationships, religious affiliation, and level of interest are not considered.[219] Admission is need-blind for students who are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, DACA recipients, undocumented, or graduates of a U.S. high school, and need-aware for international students.[220][289] The college is part of many coalitions and initiatives targeted at recruiting underrepresented demographics.[113][290]

Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any national liberal arts college in the U.S. as of 2021.[291] The college admitted 6.8% of applicants for the 2023 entering class,[214] 49.8% of whom chose to enroll.[214] The number of transfer applicants admitted has varied by year; in 2023, Pomona admitted 34 of 474 applicants (7.2%).[219]

Student body edit

Race and ethnicity of students (fall 2023 semester)†[292][needs update]
  White (30.2%)
  Asian (17.5%)
  Hispanic (16.4%)
  Black (10.3%)
  Pacific Islander (0.6%)
  Native American (0.0%)
  Multiracial (9.2%)
  International (12.5%)
  Unknown (3.3%)

† "Hispanic" includes Hispanics of any race. All other categories refer to non-Hispanics.

As of the fall 2023 semester, Pomona's student body consisted of 1,735 degree-seeking undergraduate students and a token number of non–degree seeking students.[293] Compared to its closest liberal arts peers, Pomona has been characterized as laid back, academically oriented, mildly quirky, and politically liberal.[10]

The student body is roughly evenly split between men and women,[293] and 91% of students are under 22 years old.[294] Approximately 64% of domestic students are non-white and 13% of students are international,[292] making Pomona one of the most racially and ethnically diverse colleges in the U.S.[7][8][295][296] The geographic origins of the student body are also diverse,[10][294] with all 50 U.S. states, the major U.S. territories, and more than 60 foreign countries represented.[297][298] Students from California make up 31%, with sizable concentrations from the other western states.[298] The median family income of students was $166,500 as of 2013, with 52% of students coming from the top 10% highest-earning families and 22% from the bottom 60%.[299] The college has been increasing its enrollment of low-income students since the early 2000s,[116][117] and was ranked second among all private institutions and eighth among all institutions in The New York Times' 2017 College Access Index, a measure of economic diversity.[11] Various religious and spiritual beliefs are represented among students, with many leaning secular.[300][301]

Among students in the 2023 entering class who submitted test scores, the middle 50% scored 730‍–‍770 on the SAT evidence-based reading and writing section, 750‍–‍790 on the SAT math section, and 33‍–‍35 on the ACT.[219] Among students with an official high school class rank, 85% ranked in the top tenth and 97% ranked in the top quarter.[219]

Noted alumni and faculty edit

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Pomona College people.
Alumni
Name Class Notability Ref.
David P. Barrows 1894 Anthropologist, educator [24][302]
Chen Hansheng 1920 Chinese social scientist [303]
Joel McCrea 1928 Westerns film actor [56][304]
John Cage ‡1932‡ Avant-garde composer [305][306]
Robert Taylor 1933 Film actor [307][308]
Alan Cranston ‡1936‡ U.S. senator (D‑CA) [309][310]
James H. Howard 1937 World War II ace pilot [311][312]
Robert Shaw 1938 Choir conductor [313]
Art Clokey ‡1943‡ Stop motion animator [66][314]
Roy E. Disney 1951 Disney executive [315]
Richard Chamberlain 1956 Film actor, singer [316]
Robert Towne 1956 New Hollywood screenwriter [316]
Kris Kristofferson 1958 Outlaw country singer [71]
James Turrell 1965 Light and Space artist [317][186]
Myrlie Evers‑Williams 1968 Civil rights activist [318][85]
Bill Keller 1970 The New York Times editor [319][91]
Marianne Williamson ‡1974‡ Self-help author, activist [320]
Jennifer Doudna 1985 Biochemist, Nobel laureate [321][322]
Brian Schatz 1994 U.S. senator (D‑HI) [323][324]
‡ Did not graduate from Pomona
Faculty
Name Active tenure Notability Ref.
Leonard Pronko 1957–2014 Kabuki scholar [325][326]
Michael Armacost 1960s U.S. ambassador [327]
Stanley Crouch 1969 c. 1969 – c. 1975 Cultural critic [328][329]
Bobby Bradford 1974–2021 Jazz musician [330]
Frank Gibney 1979 c. 1979 – c. 2006 Journalist [331][332]
Gregg Popovich 1979–1988 Basketball coach [333]
Samuel H. Yamashita 1983–present Historian [334]
David Foster Wallace 2002–2008 Essayist, novelist [110]
Claudia Rankine 2006–2015 Poet [335]
Jonathan Lethem 2011–present Novelist [336][337]
Cameron Munter 2013–2015 U.S. ambassador [338][339]

Student life edit

Residential life edit

 
Common room in a Dialynas Hall suite
(view as a 360° interactive panorama)

Pomona is a residential campus, and nearly all students live on campus for all four years in one of the college's sixteen residence halls.[340] All first-year students live on South Campus, and most third- and fourth-year students live on North Campus.[340] Housing is offered in various configurations, including singles, one-room or two-room doubles, and "friendship suites" consisting of a cluster of rooms, often around a central common area.[340] All incoming students are placed into a sponsor group, with ten to twenty peers and two or three upper-class "sponsors"[341][342] tasked with easing the transition to college life but not enforcing rules (a duty given to resident advisors).[343][344][345] Sponsor groups often share activities such as "fountaining", a tradition in which students are thrown into a campus fountain on their birthday.[346] The program dates back to 1927 for women and was expanded in 1950 to include men.[347][348]

Pomona's social scene is intertwined with that of the other 5Cs, with many activities and events shared between the colleges.[201] The college's alcohol policies are aimed at encouraging responsible consumption and include a strict ban of hard liquor on South Campus.[349][350] Dedicated substance-free housing is also offered.[340] Overall, drinking culture is present but does not dominate over other elements of campus life,[351][352] nor does athletics culture.[9][353] Violations of the student code are typically handled by the student-run Judicial Council, known as "J-Board".[354][355]

 
Frary Dining Hall on North Campus is the largest of Pomona's three dining halls.[356]
(view as a 360° interactive panorama)

Pomona's dining services are run in house.[357] All on-campus students are required to have a meal plan,[358] which can be used at any of the Claremont Colleges' seven buffet-style dining halls.[i] The menus emphasize sustainable and healthy options, and the food quality is generally praised.[351][361] Every night Sunday through Wednesday, Frary Dining Hall opens for a late-night snack.[362][363] Meal plans also include "Flex Dollars" usable at the various campus eateries, including the Coop Fountain, Coop Store, and sit-down Café 47 in the SCC.[364]

Campus organizations edit

 
 
 
Scenes from a Pomona spring dance concert

Some extracurricular organizations at Pomona are specific to the college, whereas others are open to students at all of the Claremont Colleges.[201] In total, there are nearly 300 clubs and organizations across the 5Cs.[365]

The Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) is Pomona's official student government.[366][367] Composed of elected representatives and appointed committee members, ASPC distributes funding for clubs and organizations, represents the student body in discussions with the administration, runs student programming (such as the Yule Ball dance[368] and Ski-Beach Day[369]) through the Pomona Events Committee (PEC), and provides various student services such as an airport rideshare program.[370][371]

There are several media organizations at the Claremont Colleges, the largest of which is The Student Life,[372] the oldest college newspaper in Southern California.[373] It publishes a weekly print edition as well as online content.[374] Pomona also has a student-run radio station, KSPC.[375] The Claremont Independent, a conservative magazine, has produced articles about the 5Cs' political culture that have been picked up by national conservative media outlets and drawn criticism from many students.[376][377][378] The Golden Antlers publishes satirical content.[379] Pomona's yearbook, Metate, was founded in 1894 and discontinued in 2012.[380] The college's official magazine, Pomona College Magazine, is published three times per year by the communications office.[381][382]

Pomona has numerous clubs or support offices which provide resources and mentoring programs for students with particular identities, including female, non-white, Asian, South Asian, Latino, black, indigenous, multi-ethnic or multi-racial, international, queer, religious, and undocumented or DACA recipient students.[j][365][383][384] The college's first-generation and low-income community, FLI Scholars, has more than 200 members.[385] The Campus Advocates and EmPOWER Center support survivors of sexual violence and work to promote consent culture.[386][387]

 
An On the Loose hike descends from the summit of Mount Baldy toward the Devil's Backbone ridge in the San Gabriel Mountains north of campus.

On the Loose (OTL), the outing club of the 5Cs, sponsors trips to outdoors destinations.[388] Its flagship event, an annual hike up Mount Baldy in swimwear or goofy costumes,[389] can draw more than 100 participants.[390] It is affiliated with the Outdoor Education Center of Pomona College (OEC), which lends equipment to students for free and provides outdoor leadership training.[391]

The Pomona Student Union (PSU) facilitates the discussion of political and social issues on campus by hosting discussions, panels, and debates with prominent speakers holding diverse viewpoints.[392][393] Other speech and debate organizations include a mock trial team, model UN team, and debate union.[394][365] Pomona's secret society, Mufti, is known for gluing small sheets of paper around campus with cryptic puns offering social commentary on campus happenings.[395][396]

There are several dance groups on campus, including the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company (CCBDC), which has more than 130 dancers,[397] making it the third-largest collegiate program in the U.S.[398] It has won multiple national championships.[394] The Pomona College Theater Department produces four mainstage productions and a dance concert each year, and there are several smaller student-run productions as well.[399] The 5Cs have two improv groups, Without a Box and Underground Theatrical Institution (UTI).[365]

Pomona's music department manages several ensembles, including an orchestra, band, choir, glee club, jazz ensemble, and Balinese gamelan ensemble.[400] All students can receive free private music lessons.[401] There are eight a cappella groups on campus.[402] One, the Claremont Shades, hosts the annual SCAMFest concert, which draws singers from other Southern California colleges.[403]

 
Students on Alternabreak, a week-long community engagement trip held over spring break, care for trees in a Los Angeles park.

The Draper Center for Community Partnerships, established in 2009, coordinates Pomona's various community engagement programs.[404] These include mentoring for local youth communities, English tutoring for Pomona staff, and volunteering trips over spring break.[405] It also operates the Pomona Academy for Youth Success (PAYS), a three-year pre-college summer program for local low-income and first-generation students of color.[406][407]

Pomona has two remaining local Greek letter organizations, Sigma Tau and Kappa Delta, both of which are co-educational.[408] Neither have special housing, and Greek life is not considered a major part of the social scene on campus the way it is at many other U.S. colleges.[409][408][105]

Traditions edit

Main article: Traditions of Pomona College

Forty-seven reverence edit

 
The Smith Clock Tower (right) has been set up to chime on the 47th minute of the hour.

The number 47 has historical implications to the college and has been incorporated into various aspects of campus life.[410][411] The tradition began in the summer of 1964, when two students, Laurie Mets and Bruce Elgin, conducted a research project seeking to find out whether the number occurs more often in nature than would be expected by chance. They documented various 47 sightings, and professor Donald Bentley produced a false mathematical proof that 47 was equal to all other integers. The number became a meme among the class, which spread once the academic year began and snowballed over time.[412]

Notable 47 sightings include the fact that Pomona is located off of exit 47 of Interstate 10, and the fact that the largest residential building on campus, Mudd-Blaisdell (formally Florence Carrier Blaisdell and Della Mullock Mudd Hall, a title with 47 characters), was completed in 1947 and contains a staircase with 47 balusters.[412]

Many Pomona alumni have deliberately inserted 47 references into their work.[410] Joe Menosky (class of 1979), a writer for Star Trek: The Next Generation, inserted 47 mentions into nearly every episode of the show, a practice that has been picked up by other Star Trek writers.[412][413][414] Pomona hosts a community service–oriented celebration every April 7 (abbreviated 4/7 in the U.S.).[415] In the early 2010s, the college's clock tower was set up to chime on the 47th minute of the hour.[416][417]

Other traditions edit

As part of Pomona's 10-day orientation, incoming students spend four days off campus completing an "Orientation Adventure" or "OA" trip. The OA program began in 1995, and is one of the oldest outdoor orientation programs in the U.S.[418]

Every spring, the college hosts "Ski-Beach Day", in which students visit a ski resort in the morning and then head to the beach after lunch. The tradition dates back to an annual mountain picnic established in 1891.[419]

Since the 1970s, Pomona has used a cinder block flood barrier along the northern edge of its campus, Walker Wall, as a free speech wall.[420] Over the years, provocative postings on the wall have spawned numerous controversies.[421][422][423][424]

Transportation edit

 
Claremont's train station is directly south of campus.

Pomona's campus is located immediately north of Claremont Station,[150] where the Metrolink San Bernardino Line train provides regular service to Los Angeles Union Station (the city's main transit hub)[425] and the Foothill Transit bus system connects to cities in the San Gabriel Valley and Pomona Valley.[426]

Pomona's "Green Bikes" program maintains a fleet of more than 300 bicycles that are rented free to students each semester.[427] Non-first-year students are allowed to park on campus after registering their vehicle.[428][429] The college has several Zipcar vehicles on campus that may be rented and owns vehicles that can be checked out for club and extracurricular purposes. PEC and SCC off-campus events are usually served with the college's "Sagecoach" passenger bus.[430]

Athletics edit

Main article: Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens
Varsity teams[431]
Women's Men's
Basketball Baseball
Cross country Basketball
Golf Cross country
Lacrosse Football
Soccer Golf
Softball Soccer
Swimming and
diving		 Swimming and
diving
Tennis Tennis
Track and field Track and field
Volleyball Water polo
Water polo
 
A Pomona-Pitzer football game

Pomona's varsity athletics teams compete jointly with Pitzer College as the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens.[431] The 11 women's and 10 men's teams participate in NCAA Division III in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC).[431] Pomona-Pitzer's mascot is Cecil the Sagehen, a greater sage-grouse, and its colors are blue and orange.[3] Its main rival is the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas (CMS), the other sports combination of the Claremont Colleges.[432] The Sagehens ranked 21st out of 323 competing Division III schools and 2nd among SCIAC schools in the 2022‍–‍2023 Division III NACDA Directors' Cup, which ranks athletics programs and awards points relative to their finish in NCAA championships.[433]

Club and intramural sports are also offered in various areas, such as dodgeball, flag football, and surfing.[434][435] The physical education department offers a variety of activity classes each semester, such as karate, playground games, geocaching, and social dance.[436]

Athletics history edit

 
The football team in 1911

Pomona's first intercollegiate sports teams were formed in 1895.[437] They competed under several names in the school's early years; the name "Sagehen" first appeared in 1913 and became the sole moniker in 1917.[438] Pomona was one of the three founding members of the SCIAC in 1914.[437] In 1946, it joined with Claremont Men's College (which would later be renamed Claremont McKenna College) to compete as Pomona-Claremont.[439][437] The teams separated in 1956, and Pomona's athletics program operated independently until it joined with Pitzer College in 1970.[437]

Notes edit

  1. ^ The college also frequently uses  gold  as an accent color,[2] and its athletics teams use  blue  and  orange  to represent both Pomona and Pitzer, its athletics partner.[3]
  2. ^ The city of Pomona, in turn, was named after the goddess of fruitful abundance in Roman mythology, alluding to the region's citrus industry.[21]
  3. ^ The Clark numberings are derived from Spaulding's original plan for North Campus. Clark II became Frary Dining Hall, Clark VI became Walker Hall, and Clark VII became Walker Lounge; Clark IV and Clark VIII were never built.[184]
  4. ^ The unelected trustees consist of the college's president and two non-voting ex-officio members, the chair of the alumni association and chair of national giving. At least 10 trustees must be alumni, including one who has graduated within the last 11 years.
  5. ^ The six breadth of study areas are:
    1. Criticism, Analysis, and Contextual Study of Works of the Human Imagination
    2. Social Institutions and Human Behavior
    3. History, Values, Ethics and Cultural Studies
    4. Physical and Biological Sciences
    5. Mathematical and Formal Reasoning
    6. Creation and Performance of Works of Art and Literature
  6. ^ Students may also petition to create their own custom major.
  7. ^ Without special advisor approval, first-year students may cross-enroll for one course per semester, and others may cross-enroll for up to 40% of their total credits.
  8. ^ The definition of "traditional course" excludes thesis classes, lab sections, and independent study courses.
  9. ^ Meal plan credits can also be used for takeout meals[359] or at Claremont McKenna's Athenaeum.[360]
  10. ^ Acronyms and titles for these organizations include the WU, SOCA, AAMP and AARC, SAMP, CLSA, OBSA, IPMP, MERGE, ISMP, QRC, chaplains' office, and IDEAS.

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Not to be confused with California State Polytechnic University Pomona Pomona College p e ˈ m oʊ n e pe MOH ne 4 is a private liberal arts college in Claremont California It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a college of the New England type 5 in Southern California In 1925 it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent affiliated institutions Pomona CollegeTypePrivate liberal arts collegeEstablishedOctober 14 1887 1887 10 14 Academic affiliationClaremont CollegesEndowment 2 8 billion 2023 Budget 259 million 2023 PresidentG Gabrielle StarrAcademic staff278Total staff880Undergraduates1 735LocationClaremont California United States34 05 53 N 117 42 50 W 34 09806 N 117 71389 W 34 09806 117 71389CampusSuburban 140 acres 57 ha ColorsBlue and white 1 a NicknameSagehensSporting affiliationsNCAA Division III SCIACMascotCecil the SagehenWebsitewww wbr pomona wbr eduPomona is a four year undergraduate institution that enrolled approximately 1 700 students as of the fall 2023 semester It offers 48 majors in liberal arts disciplines and roughly 650 courses as well as access to more than 2 000 additional courses at the other Claremont Colleges Its 140 acre 57 ha campus is in a residential community 35 miles 56 km east of downtown Los Angeles near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U S liberal arts college as of 2021 update and is considered the most prestigious liberal arts college in the American West and one of the most prestigious in the country 6 It has a 2 8 billion endowment as of June 2023 update making it one of the 10 wealthiest schools in the U S on a per student basis Nearly all students live on campus and the student body is noted for its racial 7 8 9 geographic 10 and socioeconomic 8 11 9 diversity The college s athletics teams the Sagehens compete jointly with Pitzer College in the SCIAC a Division III conference Prominent alumni of Pomona include Oscar Emmy Grammy and Tony award winners U S Senators ambassadors and other federal officials Pulitzer Prize recipients billionaire executives a Nobel Prize laureate National Academies members and Olympic athletes 12 The college is a top producer of Fulbright scholars 13 and recipients of other fellowships Contents 1 History 1 1 Founding era 1 2 Mid 20th century 1 3 Postwar transformations 1 4 21st century 2 Campus 2 1 South Campus 2 2 North Campus 2 3 Other facilities 3 Organization and administration 3 1 Governance 3 2 Academic affiliations 3 3 Finances costs and financial aid 4 Academics and programs 4 1 Courses 4 2 Research study abroad and professional development 4 3 Outcomes 4 4 Reputation and rankings 5 People 5 1 Admissions 5 2 Student body 5 3 Noted alumni and faculty 6 Student life 6 1 Residential life 6 2 Campus organizations 6 3 Traditions 6 3 1 Forty seven reverence 6 3 2 Other traditions 6 4 Transportation 6 5 Athletics 6 5 1 Athletics history 7 Notes 8 References 9 Bibliography 10 External linksHistory editFounding era edit nbsp An exterior view of the college in 1907 featuring its two earliest buildings Sumner Hall right and Holmes Hall left 14 Pomona College was established as a coeducational and nonsectarian Christian institution on October 14 1887 amidst a real estate boom and anticipated population influx precipitated by the arrival of a transcontinental railroad to Southern California 15 16 Its founders a regional group of Congregationalists sought to create a college of the New England type emulating the institutions where many of them had been educated 15 5 17 Classes first began at Ayer Cottage a rental house in Pomona California on September 12 1888 with a permanent campus planned at Piedmont Mesa four miles north of the city 15 18 That year as the real estate bubble burst making the Piedmont campus financially untenable the college was offered the site of an unfinished hotel later renamed Sumner Hall 14 in the nearby recently founded town of Claremont It moved there 18 but kept its name 19 20 b Trustee Charles B Sumner led the college during its first years helping hire its first official president Cyrus G Baldwin in 1890 19 18 22 The first graduating class in 1894 had 11 members 23 24 nbsp U S president Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Pomona in 1903 25 Pomona suffered through a severe financial crisis during its early years 14 24 26 but raised enough money to add several buildings to its campus 27 28 Although the first Asian and black students enrolled in 1897 29 and 1900 30 respectively the student body like most others of the era remained almost all white throughout this period 24 31 32 In 1905 during president George A Gates tenure the college acquired a 64 acre 26 ha parcel of land to its east known as the Wash 33 34 In 1911 as high schools became more common in the region the college eliminated its preparatory department which had taught pre college level courses 35 36 The following year it committed to a liberal arts model 37 soon after turning its previously separate schools of art and music into departments within the college 38 39 In 1914 the Phi Beta Kappa honor society established a chapter at the college 40 41 Daily attendance at chapel was mandated until 1921 42 43 and student culture emphasized athletics 44 45 and academic class rivalries 46 47 During World War I male students were divided into three military companies and a Red Cross unit to assist in the war effort 48 49 50 Mid 20th century edit nbsp Reserve Officers Training Corps soldiers at Pomona in 1942Confronted with growing demand in the 1920s Pomona s fourth president James A Blaisdell considered whether to grow the college into a large university that could acquire additional resources or remain a small institution capable of providing a more intimate educational experience Seeking both he pursued an alternative path inspired by the collegiate university model he observed at Oxford envisioning a group of independent colleges sharing centralized resources such as a library 51 52 On October 14 1925 Pomona s 38th anniversary the college founded the Claremont Colleges consortium 53 54 Construction of the Clark dormitories on North Campus then the men s campus began in 1929 a reflection of president Charles Edmunds prioritization of the college s residential life 55 56 57 Edmunds who had previously served as president of Lingnan University in Guangzhou China inspired a growing interest in Asian culture at the college and established its Asian studies program 58 56 Pomona s enrollment declined during the Great Depression as students became unable to afford tuition and its budget was slashed by a quarter 59 60 61 The college reoriented itself toward wartime activities again during World War II 62 63 64 hosting an Air Force military meteorology program 65 and Army Specialized Training Program courses in engineering and foreign languages 66 67 Postwar transformations edit Pomona s longest serving president E Wilson Lyon guided the college through a transformational and turbulent period from 1941 to 1969 62 68 The college s enrollment rose above 1 000 following the war 46 69 leading to the construction of several residence halls and science facilities 70 71 Its endowment grew steadily due in part to the introduction in 1942 of a deferred giving fundraising scheme pioneered by Allen Hawley called the Pomona Plan where participants receive a lifetime annuity in exchange for donating to the college upon their death 64 72 73 The plan s model has since been adopted by many other colleges 74 75 76 nbsp Men protesting the opening of Frary Dining Hall to women in 1957 77 Lyon made several progressive decisions relating to civil rights including supporting Japanese American students during internment 63 78 79 and establishing an exchange program in 1952 with Fisk University a historically black university in Tennessee 80 81 82 He and dean of women Jean Walton ended the gender segregation of Pomona s residential life first with the opening of Frary Dining Hall then part of the men s campus to women beginning in 1957 77 and later with the elimination of parietal rules in the late 1960s 83 and the introduction of co educational housing in 1968 84 85 The student body influenced by the countercultural revolution became less socially conservative and more politically engaged in this era 86 87 62 Protesters opposed to the Vietnam War occupied Sumner Hall to obstruct Air Force recruiters in 1968 88 89 90 and forced the cancellation of classes at the end of the spring 1970 semester 91 92 The college s ethnic diversity also began to increase 93 94 95 and activists successfully pushed the consortium to establish black and Latino studies programs in 1969 31 95 96 A bomb exploded at the Carnegie Building that February permanently injuring a secretary no culprit was ever identified 95 97 98 99 During the tenure of president David Alexander from 1969 to 1991 Pomona gained increased prominence on the national stage 100 The endowment increased ten fold enabling the construction and renovation of a number of buildings 95 Several identity based groups such as the Pomona College Women s Union founded in 1984 101 were established 102 In the mid 1980s out of state students began to outnumber in state students 103 In 1991 the college converted the dormitory basements used by fraternities into lounges arguing that this created a more equitable distribution of campus space The move lowered the profile of Greek life on campus 104 105 21st century edit nbsp Pomona s Studio Art Hall completed in 2014 garnered national recognition for its steel frame design 106 107 108 In the 2000s under president David W Oxtoby Pomona began placing more emphasis on reducing its environmental impact 109 110 committing in 2003 to obtaining LEED certifications for new buildings 111 112 and launching various sustainability initiatives 109 111 The college also entered partnerships with several college access groups including the Posse Foundation in 2004 and QuestBridge in 2005 113 and committed to meeting the full demonstrated financial need of students through grants rather than loans in 2008 114 These efforts combined with Pomona s previously instituted 115 need blind admission policy resulted in increased enrollment of low income and racial minority students 116 117 In 2008 it was discovered that Pomona s alma mater may have been originally written to be sung as the ensemble finale to a student produced blackface minstrel show performed on campus in 1910 The college stopped singing it at convocation and commencement alienating some alumni 110 118 119 Pomona requested proof of legal residency from employees amid a unionization drive by dining hall workers in 2011 120 121 Seventeen workers who were unable to provide documentation were fired drawing national media attention and sparking criticism from activists 120 122 the dining hall staff voted to unionize in 2013 123 124 125 A rebranding initiative that year sought to emphasize students passion and drive angering students who thought it would lead to a more stressful culture 126 Several protests in the 2010s criticized the college s handling of sexual assault 127 128 leading to various reforms 129 130 In 2017 131 G Gabrielle Starr became Pomona s tenth president she is the first woman and first African American to hold the office 132 133 From March 2020 through the spring 2021 semester the college switched to online instruction in response to the COVID 19 pandemic 134 135 Campus edit nbsp Map of Pomona College s campus 147 148 Academic instruction Administration and services Arts venues Housing and dining Open spaces Sports and recreation Pomona College boundary Claremont Colleges boundary Other Claremont Colleges nbsp Pomona s buildings are connected via a network of visual axes such as this one on North Campus 148 Pomona s 140 acre 57 ha campus is in Claremont California an affluent suburban residential community 149 35 miles 56 km east of downtown Los Angeles 54 It is directly northwest of the Claremont Village the city s downtown commercial district and directly south of the other contiguous Claremont Colleges 150 The area has a Mediterranean climate 151 and consists of a gentle slope from the alluvial fan of San Antonio Creek in the San Gabriel Mountains to the north 152 148 In its early years Pomona quickly expanded from its initial home in Sumner Hall constructing several buildings to accommodate its growing enrollment and ambitions 153 28 After 1908 development of the campus was guided by master plans from architect Myron Hunt who envisioned a central quadrangle flanked by buildings connected via visual axes 148 In 1923 landscape architect Ralph Cornell expanded on Hunt s plans envisioning a college in a garden defined by native Southern California vegetation 148 but incorporating global influences in the tradition of the acclimatization movement 154 155 President James Blaisdell s decision to purchase undeveloped land around Pomona while it was still available later gave the college room to grow and found the consortium 156 Many of the earlier buildings were constructed in the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles with stucco walls and red terracotta tile roofs 49 Other and later construction incorporated elements of neoclassical Victorian Italian Romanesque modern and postmodern styles 148 As a result the present campus features a blend of architectural styles 157 Most buildings are three or fewer stories in height 147 and are designed to facilitate both indoor and outdoor use 157 nbsp Dialynas and Sontag residence halls built 2011 are LEED Platinum certified 158 159 view as a 360 interactive panorama The campus consists of 88 facilities as of 2023 update 160 including 70 addressed buildings 161 It is bounded by First Street on the south Mills and Amherst Avenues on the east Eighth Street on the north and Harvard Avenue on the west 147 It is informally divided into North Campus and South Campus by Sixth Street 162 with most academic buildings in the western half and a naturalistic area known as the Wash in the east 147 It has been featured in numerous films and television shows often standing in for other schools 163 164 Pomona has undertaken initiatives to make its campus more sustainable including requiring that all new construction be built to LEED Gold standards 165 replacing turf with drought tolerant landscaping 166 and committing to achieving carbon neutrality without the aid of purchased carbon credits by 2030 167 The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education gave the college a gold rating in its 2018 Sustainable Campus Index 168 South Campus edit nbsp The Stanley Academic Quadrangle is home to many of Pomona s humanities departments view as a 360 interactive panorama South Campus consists of mostly first year and second year housing and academic buildings for the social sciences arts and humanities 147 A row of four residence halls is south of Bonita Avenue with Frank Dining Hall at the eastern end 147 Sumner Hall the home of admissions and several other administrative departments is to the north of the dormitories 147 Oldenborg Center a foreign language housing option that includes a foreign language dining hall is across from Sumner 169 nbsp Marston Quadrangle forms the center of Pomona s campus view as a 360 interactive panorama South Campus has several arts buildings and performance venues Bridges Auditorium Big Bridges is used for concerts and speakers and has a capacity of 2 500 170 171 Bridges Hall of Music Little Bridges is a concert hall with seating for 550 172 On the western edge of campus is the Benton Museum of Art which has a collection of approximately 19 000 items 173 including Italian Renaissance panel paintings indigenous American art and artifacts and American and European prints drawings and photographs 174 175 The Seaver Theatre Complex has a 335 seat thrust stage theater and 125 seat black box theater among other facilities 176 The Studio Art Hall garnered national recognition for its steel frame design when it was completed in 2014 106 107 108 Pomona s main social science and humanities buildings are located west of College Avenue They include the Carnegie Building a neoclassical structure built in 1908 as a Carnegie library 147 177 Several historic Victorian houses line the southern portion of the avenue including the Queen Anne style Renwick House which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016 178 179 Marston Quadrangle a 5 acre 2 ha lawn framed by California sycamore and coastal redwood trees serves as a central artery for the campus anchored by Carnegie on the west and Bridges Auditorium on the east 148 To its north is Alexander Hall the college s central administration building 147 and the Smith Campus Center SCC home to many student services and communal spaces 180 East of the SCC is the Center for Athletics Recreation and Wellness Pomona s primary indoor athletics and recreation facility and Smiley Hall dormitory built in 1908 147 nbsp The college gates historically marked the northern edge of Pomona s campus At the intersection of Sixth Street and College Avenue are the college gates built in 1914 which mark the historical northern edge of the campus They bear two quotes from President Blaisdell On the north is let only the eager thoughtful and reverent enter here and on the south is They only are loyal to this college who departing bear their added riches in trust for mankind Per campus tradition enrolling students walk south through the gates during orientation and seniors walk north through them shortly before graduation 181 182 The less developed 40 acre 16 ha 148 eastern portion of the campus is known as the Wash formally Blanchard Park 160 34 and contains a large grove of coast live oak trees 154 as well as many of the college s athletics facilities 183 an outdoor amphitheater an astronomical observatory and the Pomona College Organic Farm an experiment in sustainable agriculture 147 nbsp Harwood Court view as a 360 interactive panorama nbsp Bridges Hall of Music nbsp Bridges Auditorium nbsp The Carnegie Building nbsp The Wash nbsp Path to Marston Quad nbsp Mason Hall nbsp Lebus Court nbsp Crookshank HallNorth Campus edit nbsp Prometheus mural in Frary Dining HallNorth Campus was designed by architect Sumner Spaulding and its initial phase was completed in 1930 184 It consists primarily of residential buildings for third and fourth year students and academic buildings for the natural sciences 147 The academic buildings are located to the west of North College Way This area includes Dividing the Light 2007 a skyspace by Light and Space artist and alumnus James Turrell 185 186 The residence halls include the Clark halls I III and V c and several more recent constructions 147 The North Campus dining hall Frary Dining Hall features a vaulted ceiling and is the location of the murals Prometheus 1930 by Jose Clemente Orozco the first Mexican fresco in the U S 187 and Genesis 1960 by Rico Lebrun 188 nbsp Walker Hall nbsp Norton Clark III courtyard nbsp Dividing the Light skyspace nbsp Arcade along Bixby Plaza view as a 360 interactive panorama nbsp Walker Beach looking northOther facilities edit The college owns the 53 acre 21 ha Trails Ends Ranch a wilderness area in the Webb Canyon north of campus 189 190 the 320 acre 130 ha Mildred Pitt Ranch in southeastern Monterey County 191 and the Halona Lodge retreat center in Idyllwild California 192 The astronomy department built and operates a telescope at the Table Mountain Observatory in Big Pines California 138 Along the north side of campus are several joint buildings maintained by The Claremont Colleges Services The Claremont Colleges Library also known as Honnold Mudd Library holds more than 2 7 million items as of 2020 update of which 1 1 million are physical and 1 7 million are digital 193 The consortium also owns the Robert J Bernard Field Station north of Foothill Boulevard 194 Organization and administration editGovernance edit nbsp President G Gabrielle Starr in 2023Pomona is governed as a private nonprofit organization by a board of trustees responsible for overseeing the long term interests of the college 195 The board consists of up to 42 members most of whom are elected by existing members to four year terms with a term limit of 12 years d 195 It is responsible for hiring the college s president G Gabrielle Starr since 2017 196 approving budgets setting overarching policies and various other tasks 195 The president in turn oversees the college s general operation assisted by administrative staff and a faculty cabinet 195 The college has 880 total employees as of the fall 2022 semester 197 Pomona operates under a shared governance model in which faculty and students sit on many policymaking committees and have a degree of control over other major decisions 198 199 200 Academic affiliations edit Further information Claremont Colleges nbsp Honnold Library a shared Claremont Colleges resourcePomona is the founding member of the Claremont Colleges colloquially 7Cs for seven colleges a consortium of five undergraduate liberal arts colleges 5Cs Pomona Scripps Claremont McKenna Harvey Mudd and Pitzer and two graduate schools Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute All are located in Claremont Although each member has individual autonomy and a distinct identity 201 there is substantial collaboration through The Claremont Colleges Services TCCS a coordinating entity that manages the central library campus safety services health services and other resources 202 Overall the 7Cs have been praised by higher education experts for their close cooperation 203 although there have been occasional tensions 204 205 Pomona is the largest undergraduate 205 and wealthiest member 206 Pomona is a member of several other consortia of selective colleges including the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges 207 the Oberlin Group 208 and the Annapolis Group 209 The college is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission which reaffirmed its status in 2021 with particular praise for its diversity initiatives 210 211 Finances costs and financial aid edit nbsp Pomona s office of financial aid is in Sumner Hall Pomona has an endowment of 2 8 billion as of June 2023 update 212 giving it one of the 10 highest endowments per student of any college or university in the U S 213 The college s total assets including its campus are valued at 3 67 billion 212 Its operating budget for the 2023 2024 academic year was 259 million 214 of which roughly half was funded by endowment earnings 215 In 2022 43 of the budget was allocated to instruction 2 to research 1 to public service 14 to academic support 16 to student services and 25 to institutional support 216 In 2021 Fitch Ratings gave the college a AAA bond credit rating its highest rating reflecting an extremely strong financial profile 217 For the 2023 2024 academic year Pomona charged a tuition fee of 61 906 218 with a total estimated on campus cost of attendance of 88 296 218 In 2023 2024 52 of students received a financial aid package with an average award of 63 044 including 38 of international students who received an average award of 73 927 219 The college meets the full demonstrated need of all admitted students including international students 220 through grants rather than loans 221 It does not offer merit awards or athletic scholarships 219 Academics and programs edit nbsp Bridges Hall of Music hosts a variety of performances by the college s musical ensembles Pomona offers instruction in the liberal arts disciplines and awards the Bachelor of Arts degree 222 The college operates on a semester system 223 with a normal course load of four full credit classes per semester 224 32 credits and a C average GPA are needed to graduate along with the requirements of a major a first year critical inquiry seminar at least one course in each of six breadth of study areas e proficiency in a foreign language two physical education courses a writing intensive course a speaking intensive course and an analyzing difference course typically examining a type of structural inequality 225 Pomona offers 48 majors 222 most of which also have a corresponding minor f 226 For the 2023 graduation cohort 21 of students majored in the arts and humanities 39 in the natural sciences 24 in the social sciences and 16 in interdisciplinary fields 227 19 of students completed a double major 29 completed a minor and 2 completed multiple minors 228 The college does not permit majoring in pre professional disciplines such as medicine or law but offers academic advising for those areas 229 230 and 3 2 engineering programs with Caltech Dartmouth and Washington University 231 Courses edit Individually Pomona offers approximately 650 courses per semester 232 Additionally students may take a significant portion g of their courses at the other Claremont Colleges enabling access to approximately 2 700 courses total 224 The academic calendars and registration procedures across the colleges are synchronized and consolidated 233 and there are no additional fees for cross enrollment 103 Students may also create independent study courses evaluated by faculty mentors 234 nbsp Estella Laboratory opened in 2015 houses Pomona s physics astronomy and math programs All classes at Pomona are taught by professors as opposed to teaching assistants 235 198 The average class size is 15 232 for the fall 2023 semester 92 of traditional courses h had under 30 students and only two courses had 50 or more students 219 The college employs 278 faculty members as of the fall 2023 semester 214 approximately four fifths of whom are full time 219 resulting in a 7 1 ratio of students to full time equivalent professors 219 Among full time faculty 36 are members of racial minority groups 52 are women and 96 have a doctorate or other terminal degree in their field 219 Students and professors often form close relationships 236 198 237 and the college provides faculty with free meals to encourage them to eat with students 200 Semesters end with a week long final examination period preceded by two reading days 238 The college operates several resource centers to help students develop academic skills in quantitative tasks 239 240 writing 241 and foreign languages 242 Research study abroad and professional development edit More than half of Pomona students conduct research with faculty 243 244 The college sponsors an annual Summer Undergraduate Research Program SURP in which more than 200 students are paid a stipend of up to 5 600 to conduct research with professors or pursue independent research projects with professorial mentorship 245 246 The Pomona College Humanities Studio established in 2018 supports research in the humanities 247 Pomona is home to the Pacific Basin Institute a research institute that studies issues pertaining to the Pacific Rim 248 The Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity colloquially termed the Hive was established in 2015 to support creative learning 249 250 Approximately half of Pomona students study abroad 243 As of 2023 update the college offers 69 pre approved programs in 39 countries 251 Study away programs are available for Washington D C Silicon Valley and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts and semester exchanges are offered at Colby Spelman and Swarthmore colleges 231 nbsp Pomona s Career Development Office is in Alexander Hall The Pomona College Career Development Office CDO provides students and alumni with career advising networking and other pre professional opportunities It runs the Pomona College Internship Program PCIP which provides stipends for completing unpaid or underpaid internships during the semester or summer more than 250 students participate annually 252 253 The office connects students with alumni for networking and mentoring via the Sagehen Connect platform 254 During the 2015 2016 academic year 175 employers hosted on site informational events at the Claremont Colleges and 265 unique organizations were represented in 9 career fairs 255 Outcomes edit nbsp Dinner at a Pomona alumni weekendFor the 2022 entering class 96 of students returned for their second year 256 giving Pomona one of the highest retention rates of any college or university in the U S 257 For the 2017 entering class 71 of students graduated within four years among the highest rate of any U S college or university 258 and 93 graduated within six years 219 Within 10 years 81 of Pomona graduates attend graduate or professional school according to a 2017 alumni survey 243 The college ranked 11th among all U S colleges and universities for doctorates awarded to alumni per capita according to data collected by the National Science Foundation for 2012 to 2021 259 The top destinations between 2009 and 2018 in order were the University of California Los Angeles the University of California Berkeley Harvard University the University of Southern California and Stanford University 260 A 2023 analysis of the schools that send the most students per capita to the highest ranked U S medical business and law schools placed Pomona 17th for medical schools 261 22nd for business schools 262 and 14th for law schools 263 The top industries for graduates are technology education consulting and professional services finance government law and politics arts entertainment and media healthcare and social services nonprofits and research 264 265 266 Pomona alumni earn a median early career salary of 73 700 and a median mid career salary of 146 400 according to 2023 survey data from compensation analytics company PayScale 267 Pomona ranks among the top producers of recipients of various competitive postgraduate fellowships including the Churchill Scholarship 268 Fulbright Program 13 269 270 Goldwater Scholarship 271 Marshall Scholarship 272 National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship 273 and Rhodes Scholarship 274 Reputation and rankings edit Academic rankingsLiberal arts collegesU S News amp World Report 275 4Washington Monthly 276 9NationalForbes 277 36THE WSJ 278 25Pomona is considered the most prestigious liberal arts college in the Western United States and one of the most prestigious in the country 6 However among the broader public it has less name recognition than many larger schools 279 280 The 2023 U S News amp World Report Best Colleges Ranking places Pomona fourth in the national liberal arts colleges category out of 211 colleges 275 Pomona has been ranked in the top 10 liberal arts colleges every year by U S News since it began ranking them in 1984 and is one of five schools with such a history alongside Amherst Swarthmore Wellesley and Williams 281 Pomona has rated similarly in other college rankings 282 In 2015 the Forbes ranking placed it first among all colleges and universities in the U S drawing media attention 283 Pomona is the third most desirable college or university in the U S according to a 2020 analysis of admitted students revealed preferences among their college choices conducted by the digital credential service Parchment 284 People editAdmissions edit Admissions statistics2023 enteringclass 219 Change vs 2018 285 243 Admit rate6 8 nbsp 0 8 Yield rate50 nbsp 3 Test scores middle 50 SAT EBRW730 770 nbsp 20 median SAT Math750 790 nbsp 25 median ACT Composite33 35 nbsp 1 median High school GPA Top 10 85 nbsp 6 Top 25 97 nbsp 3 Top 50 100 nbsp no change 2023 data among students who chose to submit Among students whose school rankedPomona offers three routes for students to apply the Common Application the QuestBridge application and the Coalition Application Applicants who want an earlier binding decision can apply via early decision I or II others apply through regular decision 286 Additionally the college enrolls two 10 student 287 Posse Foundation cohorts from Chicago and Miami in each class 288 Pomona considers various factors in its admissions process placing greatest importance on course rigor class rank GPA application essays recommendations extracurricular activities talent and character Interviews test scores first generation status geographic residence volunteer work and work experience are considered Alumni relationships religious affiliation and level of interest are not considered 219 Admission is need blind for students who are U S citizens permanent residents DACA recipients undocumented or graduates of a U S high school and need aware for international students 220 289 The college is part of many coalitions and initiatives targeted at recruiting underrepresented demographics 113 290 Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any national liberal arts college in the U S as of 2021 update 291 The college admitted 6 8 of applicants for the 2023 entering class 214 49 8 of whom chose to enroll 214 The number of transfer applicants admitted has varied by year in 2023 Pomona admitted 34 of 474 applicants 7 2 219 Student body edit Race and ethnicity of students fall 2023 semester 292 needs update White 30 2 Asian 17 5 Hispanic 16 4 Black 10 3 Pacific Islander 0 6 Native American 0 0 Multiracial 9 2 International 12 5 Unknown 3 3 Hispanic includes Hispanics of any race All other categories refer to non Hispanics As of the fall 2023 semester update Pomona s student body consisted of 1 735 degree seeking undergraduate students and a token number of non degree seeking students 293 Compared to its closest liberal arts peers Pomona has been characterized as laid back academically oriented mildly quirky and politically liberal 10 The student body is roughly evenly split between men and women 293 and 91 of students are under 22 years old 294 Approximately 64 of domestic students are non white and 13 of students are international 292 making Pomona one of the most racially and ethnically diverse colleges in the U S 7 8 295 296 The geographic origins of the student body are also diverse 10 294 with all 50 U S states the major U S territories and more than 60 foreign countries represented 297 298 Students from California make up 31 with sizable concentrations from the other western states 298 The median family income of students was 166 500 as of 2013 update with 52 of students coming from the top 10 highest earning families and 22 from the bottom 60 299 The college has been increasing its enrollment of low income students since the early 2000s 116 117 and was ranked second among all private institutions and eighth among all institutions in The New York Times 2017 College Access Index a measure of economic diversity 11 Various religious and spiritual beliefs are represented among students with many leaning secular 300 301 Among students in the 2023 entering class who submitted test scores the middle 50 scored 730 770 on the SAT evidence based reading and writing section 750 790 on the SAT math section and 33 35 on the ACT 219 Among students with an official high school class rank 85 ranked in the top tenth and 97 ranked in the top quarter 219 Noted alumni and faculty edit For a more comprehensive list see List of Pomona College people Alumni Name Class Notability Ref David P Barrows 1894 Anthropologist educator 24 302 Chen Hansheng 1920 Chinese social scientist 303 Joel McCrea 1928 Westerns film actor 56 304 John Cage 1932 Avant garde composer 305 306 Robert Taylor 1933 Film actor 307 308 Alan Cranston 1936 U S senator D CA 309 310 James H Howard 1937 World War II ace pilot 311 312 Robert Shaw 1938 Choir conductor 313 Art Clokey 1943 Stop motion animator 66 314 Roy E Disney 1951 Disney executive 315 Richard Chamberlain 1956 Film actor singer 316 Robert Towne 1956 New Hollywood screenwriter 316 Kris Kristofferson 1958 Outlaw country singer 71 James Turrell 1965 Light and Space artist 317 186 Myrlie Evers Williams 1968 Civil rights activist 318 85 Bill Keller 1970 The New York Times editor 319 91 Marianne Williamson 1974 Self help author activist 320 Jennifer Doudna 1985 Biochemist Nobel laureate 321 322 Brian Schatz 1994 U S senator D HI 323 324 Did not graduate from Pomona Faculty Name Active tenure Notability Ref Leonard Pronko 1957 2014 Kabuki scholar 325 326 Michael Armacost 1960s U S ambassador 327 Stanley Crouch 1969 c 1969 c 1975 Cultural critic 328 329 Bobby Bradford 1974 2021 Jazz musician 330 Frank Gibney 1979 c 1979 c 2006 Journalist 331 332 Gregg Popovich 1979 1988 Basketball coach 333 Samuel H Yamashita 1983 present Historian 334 David Foster Wallace 2002 2008 Essayist novelist 110 Claudia Rankine 2006 2015 Poet 335 Jonathan Lethem 2011 present Novelist 336 337 Cameron Munter 2013 2015 U S ambassador 338 339 Student life editResidential life edit nbsp Common room in a Dialynas Hall suite view as a 360 interactive panorama Pomona is a residential campus and nearly all students live on campus for all four years in one of the college s sixteen residence halls 340 All first year students live on South Campus and most third and fourth year students live on North Campus 340 Housing is offered in various configurations including singles one room or two room doubles and friendship suites consisting of a cluster of rooms often around a central common area 340 All incoming students are placed into a sponsor group with ten to twenty peers and two or three upper class sponsors 341 342 tasked with easing the transition to college life but not enforcing rules a duty given to resident advisors 343 344 345 Sponsor groups often share activities such as fountaining a tradition in which students are thrown into a campus fountain on their birthday 346 The program dates back to 1927 for women and was expanded in 1950 to include men 347 348 Pomona s social scene is intertwined with that of the other 5Cs with many activities and events shared between the colleges 201 The college s alcohol policies are aimed at encouraging responsible consumption and include a strict ban of hard liquor on South Campus 349 350 Dedicated substance free housing is also offered 340 Overall drinking culture is present but does not dominate over other elements of campus life 351 352 nor does athletics culture 9 353 Violations of the student code are typically handled by the student run Judicial Council known as J Board 354 355 nbsp Frary Dining Hall on North Campus is the largest of Pomona s three dining halls 356 view as a 360 interactive panorama Pomona s dining services are run in house 357 All on campus students are required to have a meal plan 358 which can be used at any of the Claremont Colleges seven buffet style dining halls i The menus emphasize sustainable and healthy options and the food quality is generally praised 351 361 Every night Sunday through Wednesday Frary Dining Hall opens for a late night snack 362 363 Meal plans also include Flex Dollars usable at the various campus eateries including the Coop Fountain Coop Store and sit down Cafe 47 in the SCC 364 Campus organizations edit nbsp nbsp nbsp Scenes from a Pomona spring dance concert Some extracurricular organizations at Pomona are specific to the college whereas others are open to students at all of the Claremont Colleges 201 In total there are nearly 300 clubs and organizations across the 5Cs 365 The Associated Students of Pomona College ASPC is Pomona s official student government 366 367 Composed of elected representatives and appointed committee members ASPC distributes funding for clubs and organizations represents the student body in discussions with the administration runs student programming such as the Yule Ball dance 368 and Ski Beach Day 369 through the Pomona Events Committee PEC and provides various student services such as an airport rideshare program 370 371 There are several media organizations at the Claremont Colleges the largest of which is The Student Life 372 the oldest college newspaper in Southern California 373 It publishes a weekly print edition as well as online content 374 Pomona also has a student run radio station KSPC 375 The Claremont Independent a conservative magazine has produced articles about the 5Cs political culture that have been picked up by national conservative media outlets and drawn criticism from many students 376 377 378 The Golden Antlers publishes satirical content 379 Pomona s yearbook Metate was founded in 1894 and discontinued in 2012 380 The college s official magazine Pomona College Magazine is published three times per year by the communications office 381 382 Pomona has numerous clubs or support offices which provide resources and mentoring programs for students with particular identities including female non white Asian South Asian Latino black indigenous multi ethnic or multi racial international queer religious and undocumented or DACA recipient students j 365 383 384 The college s first generation and low income community FLI Scholars has more than 200 members 385 The Campus Advocates and EmPOWER Center support survivors of sexual violence and work to promote consent culture 386 387 nbsp An On the Loose hike descends from the summit of Mount Baldy toward the Devil s Backbone ridge in the San Gabriel Mountains north of campus On the Loose OTL the outing club of the 5Cs sponsors trips to outdoors destinations 388 Its flagship event an annual hike up Mount Baldy in swimwear or goofy costumes 389 can draw more than 100 participants 390 It is affiliated with the Outdoor Education Center of Pomona College OEC which lends equipment to students for free and provides outdoor leadership training 391 The Pomona Student Union PSU facilitates the discussion of political and social issues on campus by hosting discussions panels and debates with prominent speakers holding diverse viewpoints 392 393 Other speech and debate organizations include a mock trial team model UN team and debate union 394 365 Pomona s secret society Mufti is known for gluing small sheets of paper around campus with cryptic puns offering social commentary on campus happenings 395 396 There are several dance groups on campus including the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company CCBDC which has more than 130 dancers 397 making it the third largest collegiate program in the U S 398 It has won multiple national championships 394 The Pomona College Theater Department produces four mainstage productions and a dance concert each year and there are several smaller student run productions as well 399 The 5Cs have two improv groups Without a Box and Underground Theatrical Institution UTI 365 Pomona s music department manages several ensembles including an orchestra band choir glee club jazz ensemble and Balinese gamelan ensemble 400 All students can receive free private music lessons 401 There are eight a cappella groups on campus 402 One the Claremont Shades hosts the annual SCAMFest concert which draws singers from other Southern California colleges 403 nbsp Students on Alternabreak a week long community engagement trip held over spring break care for trees in a Los Angeles park The Draper Center for Community Partnerships established in 2009 coordinates Pomona s various community engagement programs 404 These include mentoring for local youth communities English tutoring for Pomona staff and volunteering trips over spring break 405 It also operates the Pomona Academy for Youth Success PAYS a three year pre college summer program for local low income and first generation students of color 406 407 Pomona has two remaining local Greek letter organizations Sigma Tau and Kappa Delta both of which are co educational 408 Neither have special housing and Greek life is not considered a major part of the social scene on campus the way it is at many other U S colleges 409 408 105 Traditions edit Main article Traditions of Pomona College Forty seven reverence edit nbsp The Smith Clock Tower right has been set up to chime on the 47th minute of the hour The number 47 has historical implications to the college and has been incorporated into various aspects of campus life 410 411 The tradition began in the summer of 1964 when two students Laurie Mets and Bruce Elgin conducted a research project seeking to find out whether the number occurs more often in nature than would be expected by chance They documented various 47 sightings and professor Donald Bentley produced a false mathematical proof that 47 was equal to all other integers The number became a meme among the class which spread once the academic year began and snowballed over time 412 Notable 47 sightings include the fact that Pomona is located off of exit 47 of Interstate 10 and the fact that the largest residential building on campus Mudd Blaisdell formally Florence Carrier Blaisdell and Della Mullock Mudd Hall a title with 47 characters was completed in 1947 and contains a staircase with 47 balusters 412 Many Pomona alumni have deliberately inserted 47 references into their work 410 Joe Menosky class of 1979 a writer for Star Trek The Next Generation inserted 47 mentions into nearly every episode of the show a practice that has been picked up by other Star Trek writers 412 413 414 Pomona hosts a community service oriented celebration every April 7 abbreviated 4 7 in the U S 415 In the early 2010s the college s clock tower was set up to chime on the 47th minute of the hour 416 417 Other traditions edit As part of Pomona s 10 day orientation incoming students spend four days off campus completing an Orientation Adventure or OA trip The OA program began in 1995 and is one of the oldest outdoor orientation programs in the U S 418 Every spring the college hosts Ski Beach Day in which students visit a ski resort in the morning and then head to the beach after lunch The tradition dates back to an annual mountain picnic established in 1891 419 Since the 1970s Pomona has used a cinder block flood barrier along the northern edge of its campus Walker Wall as a free speech wall 420 Over the years provocative postings on the wall have spawned numerous controversies 421 422 423 424 Transportation edit nbsp Claremont s train station is directly south of campus Pomona s campus is located immediately north of Claremont Station 150 where the Metrolink San Bernardino Line train provides regular service to Los Angeles Union Station the city s main transit hub 425 and the Foothill Transit bus system connects to cities in the San Gabriel Valley and Pomona Valley 426 Pomona s Green Bikes program maintains a fleet of more than 300 bicycles that are rented free to students each semester 427 Non first year students are allowed to park on campus after registering their vehicle 428 429 The college has several Zipcar vehicles on campus that may be rented and owns vehicles that can be checked out for club and extracurricular purposes PEC and SCC off campus events are usually served with the college s Sagecoach passenger bus 430 Athletics edit Main article Pomona Pitzer Sagehens Varsity teams 431 Women s Men sBasketball BaseballCross country BasketballGolf Cross countryLacrosse FootballSoccer GolfSoftball SoccerSwimming and diving Swimming and divingTennis TennisTrack and field Track and fieldVolleyball Water poloWater polo nbsp A Pomona Pitzer football gamePomona s varsity athletics teams compete jointly with Pitzer College as the Pomona Pitzer Sagehens 431 The 11 women s and 10 men s teams participate in NCAA Division III in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference SCIAC 431 Pomona Pitzer s mascot is Cecil the Sagehen a greater sage grouse and its colors are blue and orange 3 Its main rival is the Claremont Mudd Scripps Stags and Athenas CMS the other sports combination of the Claremont Colleges 432 The Sagehens ranked 21st out of 323 competing Division III schools and 2nd among SCIAC schools in the 2022 2023 Division III NACDA Directors Cup which ranks athletics programs and awards points relative to their finish in NCAA championships 433 Club and intramural sports are also offered in various areas such as dodgeball flag football and surfing 434 435 The physical education department offers a variety of activity classes each semester such as karate playground games geocaching and social dance 436 Athletics history edit nbsp The football team in 1911Pomona s first intercollegiate sports teams were formed in 1895 437 They competed under several names in the school s early years the name Sagehen first appeared in 1913 and became the sole moniker in 1917 438 Pomona was one of the three founding members of the SCIAC in 1914 437 In 1946 it joined with Claremont Men s College which would later be renamed Claremont McKenna College to compete as Pomona Claremont 439 437 The teams separated in 1956 and Pomona s athletics program operated independently until it joined with Pitzer College in 1970 437 Notes edit The college also frequently uses gold as an accent 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