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News Releases (page 54)


October 3, 2016

President Tiedens Introduced to Community through In Person Events

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú President Lara Tiedens, the College’s ninth president who began her term in August, answered questions from the media and extends the same opportunity to 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú community members as she […]

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September 29, 2016

Erica Tyron ’92 Keeps College Radio Station KSPC 88.7 FM Running

Erica Tyron ’92 shepherds the operations of KSPC 88.7 FM radio station, as well as decades of students who have worked there to learn the business and serve as DJs “spinning” cutting-edge music in the roughly 35-mile radius where the station is heard. As Director of College Radio at the station, Tyron’s leadership and passion for her work and the radio station’s role in the community is chronicled in a recent article in the Claremont Courier.

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51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Tops World College Ranking List

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú is ranked among the Top 10% of colleges in the 2016-2017 world college rankings, in the inaugural Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Ranking (WSJ/THE). The U.K.-based Times Higher Education magazine evaluated colleges around the globe on 15 metrics grouped into four “pillars” that include “Outcomes,” “Resources,” “Engagement,” and “Environment.”

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September 21, 2016

Catherine Collinson ’85 Receives Hero Award

The Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) honored Catherine Collinson ‘85, president of the nonprofit foundation Transamerica Institute and Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, with a Hero Award at the organization’s 20th anniversary event in Washington, D.C.

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September 19, 2016

On Stage: Japanese Theater Prints and Costumes

Tsukioka Kogyo, One Hundred Noh Plays: Shakkyo, 1922, Japanese wood block print, 15 in. x 10 1/8 in., Aoki Endowment, 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú, Claremont, CA Kabuki, Noh and Bunraku are types […]

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“A Sense of Place”: 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú 73rd Ceramic Annual

“In the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti,” wrote Melville. It is an individual experience of a place, only to be reached by traveling inward. The master ceramicists […]

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September 15, 2016

U.S.News & World Report Ranks 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Among Top 25 Best Liberal Arts Colleges

U.S. News & World Report ranks 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú 23rd on its annual list of America’s best liberal arts colleges in 2017, up from 29th in 2016, as reported in the […]

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September 12, 2016

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Announces Fall 2016 Humanities Institute Public Events

September 2016 marks the fifteen-year anniversary of President George W. Bush’s declaration that the United States was now engaged in a global “war on terror.” The fall 2016 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú […]

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September 9, 2016

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Offers Scholarship for High School Students in Upstate New York

In 2013, the family of Tia Palermo, a longtime resident of Livingston County, established a scholarship at 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú in her memory. Through her dedication and hard work, Tia supported […]

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August 30, 2016

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Alum Alison Saar ’78 and Mom, Sister Join Historic Women’s Artist Flash Mob Event In L.A.

Artist Alison Saar ’78 joined her sister, Lezley Saar, and mom, Betye Saar, 90, to pose with scores of area female artists who gathered in downtown Los Angeles on August 28, 2016, for a group photograph organized by artist Kim Schoenstadt as a tribute to women in art.

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