Page 13 of Scripps College Academic Catalog 2004-2006 by Scripps College - The Women's College - Claremont

Each of the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges has a four-year academic program leading to a bachelors degree. Graduate education is represented by the Claremont Graduate University and the Keck Graduate Institute. Each has its own campus, students, and faculty, and its own curricular emphasis and distinctive mission.The campuses lie adjacent to one another on 300 acres and together, through a central coordinating institution called Claremont University Consortium, provide students with a range of services and facilities characteristic of a university. Enrollment in each of the colleges ranges from 700 to 2,100. Each has its own residence halls and dining halls, and the proximity to classrooms and faculty offices is a significant advantage. All the colleges attract and seek students of varied interests and backgrounds. The Claremont Colleges offer cross-registration and a number of jointly sponsored programs, and cooperate to provide for all students many facilities and services.The most notable of these are the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges with more than two million volumes, the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies, the Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Center, an international student center, Baxter Medical Center, the Chaplaincy of The Claremont Colleges, Monsour Counseling Center, and a bookstore with about 25,000 titles. Other intellectual and cultural centers, such as the Blaisdell Institute for Advanced Study in World Cultures and Religions, the Tom s Rivera Center, and the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, are affiliates of The Claremont Colleges. With more than 6,000 students and 500 faculty members, the colleges generate a rich variety of cultural and intellectual activities. Guest speakers, symposia, and conferences are frequent, and there are numerous art exhibits, concerts, film series, and theater and dance productions throughout the academic year. Each of the colleges has activities in which its own students participate, and each attracts a variety of speakers and lecturers, but in many activities, students from the various campuses work together. Pomona College Pomona College, incorporated in 1887, is a coeducational college of arts and science enrolling approximately 1,500 students. It offers 43 majors in the humanities, arts, natural sciences, and social sciences, leading to the bachelor of arts degree.The founding member of The Claremont Colleges, Pomona makes several of its programs and facilities available to all Claremont students. The Pomona College Theatre Program for The Claremont Colleges offers instruction and performance opportunities to interested students from all the campuses. Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations, in addition to sponsoring a wide array of intercultural events, provides a setting for daily foreign language practice at language lunch tables. The Montgomery Art Gallery offers an active program of temporary exhibitions, which open with public receptions and include lectures and related programs for The Claremont Colleges community. 11 The Claremont Colleges

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