23 Facts About Pomona College

Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California.

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.

Pomona College suffered through a severe financial crisis during its early years, but raised enough money to add several buildings to its campus.

Pomona College's enrollment declined during the Great Depression as students became unable to afford tuition, and its budget was slashed by a quarter.

Pomona College requested proof of legal residency from employees amid a unionization drive by dining hall workers in 2011.

Related searches

Pomona College has undertaken initiatives to make its campus more sustainable, including requiring that all new construction be built to LEED Gold standards, replacing turf with drought-tolerant landscaping, and committing to achieving carbon neutrality without the aid of purchased carbon credits by 2030.

At the intersection of Sixth Street and Pomona College Avenue are the college gates, built in 1914, which mark the historical northern edge of the campus.

Pomona College owns the 53-acre Trails Ends Ranch, the 320-acre Mildred Pitt Ranch in southeastern Monterey County, and the Halona Lodge retreat center in Idyllwild, California.

Pomona College 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.

Pomona College offers instruction in the liberal arts disciplines and awards the Bachelor of Arts degree.

Pomona College offers 48 majors, most of which have a corresponding minor.

Pomona College is home to the Pacific Basin Institute, a research institute that studies issues pertaining to the Pacific Rim.

Pomona College offers three routes for students to apply: the Common Application, the QuestBridge application, and the Coalition Application.

Pomona College considers various factors in its admissions process, placing greatest importance on course rigor, class rank, GPA, application essays, recommendations, extracurricular activities, talent, and character.

Some extracurricular organizations at Pomona are specific to the college, whereas others are open to students at all of the Claremont Colleges.

The college's official magazine, Pomona College Magazine, is published three times per year by the communications office.

Pomona College 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.

Pomona College has two remaining local Greek letter organizations, Sigma Tau and Kappa Delta, both of which are co-educational.

Notable 47 sightings include the fact that Pomona College is located off of exit 47 of Interstate 10, and the fact that the largest residential building on campus, Mudd-Blaisdell, was completed in 1947 and contains a staircase with 47 balusters.

Since the 1970s, Pomona College has used a cinder block flood barrier along the northern edge of its campus, Walker Wall, as a free speech wall.

Pomona College's campus is located immediately north of Claremont Station, where the Metrolink San Bernardino Line train provides regular service to Los Angeles Union Station and the Foothill Transit bus system connects to cities in the San Gabriel Valley and Pomona College Valley.

Pomona College was one of the three founding members of the SCIAC in 1914, and its football team played in the inaugural game at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1923.

In 1946, Pomona joined with Claremont Men's College to compete as Pomona-Claremont.