Guide to Student Life 2002-2003

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Academic Policies and Information

Academic Policies and Information

Detailed information on academic policy can be found in the CMC Catalog and the CMC Statement of Academic Policy which are distributed to all students every year. The information contained in this section of the Guide is designed to acquaint the student with some of the general provisions of the College’s academic program. It is not a complete review and the information may be subject to change during the academic year. Students having questions about their academic programs should contact the Registrar or their faculty advisors.

Faculty

Each member of the faculty has office hours in which he or she is available to students, although professors are in their offices during hours other than the scheduled hours. Appointments may be scheduled through the individual professors; messages to faculty may be left in their mailboxes, at their e-mail address, on their office doors, or with one of the faculty support center secretaries. The faculty support center secretaries keep a schedule of the office hours of faculty members. Faculty offices are located in Bauer, Seaman, Pitzer, Roberts North and South, Adams, the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, and the Keck Science Center. Mailboxes are in Pitzer 6, Bauer workroom (at the top of the stairs on the second floor), or the Keck Science Center.

General questions with regard to academic departments should be directed to the faculty support centers in Pitzer 6 (ext. 72835/73394) and Bauer 213 (ext. 73041/72680). If you have a question regarding a specific department and course offerings, you should contact the department chair. Listed below are the department chairs and their campus extensions.

Department Chairs, 2002–2003
Economics Richard Burdekin B-217 ext. 72884/79597
Government Mark Blitz P-209 ext. 73232/78025
History David Yoo S-222 ext. 72828/78026
Literature Audrey Bilger RS-219 ext. 72765/18293
Mathematics James Pinter-Lucke A-217 ext. 73677/78021
Military Science LTC Michael Murphy B-101 ext. 18102
Modern Languages Marie-Denise Shelton RN-218 ext. 73456/78022
Philosophy/Religious Studies John Roth RN-217 ext. 72891/78024
Physical Education Michael Sutton Ducey Gym ext. 73562/72904
Psychology Marjorie Charlop-Christy S-235 ext. 73879/78023
Science Andrew Dowsett KSC-111 ext. 79674/18298

Advisors and Academic Counseling

Academic advising of new students at CMC is primarily the responsibility of the faculty. In addition, each department has student liaisons who serve as academic peer advisors between academic departments and students interested in taking courses in those departments. Liaisons are available during orientation and throughout the year to assist new students with course selection, registration, and to answer related questions.

Through CMC’s advising program, all new students are assigned a faculty advisor. To the extent possible, new students are assigned to a faculty member familiar with their intended major(s). The advising system at CMC is informal and students are welcome to change faculty advisors with the permission of a new faculty advisor. Students with questions about transfer credit, General Education requirements, or major/degree progress or other academic policies, procedures, or deadlines should contact the Registrar’s Office.

Students are also encouraged to contact other faculty for advice and counsel as appropriate. Students should make a special effort to speak with faculty teaching courses in which they are experiencing difficulty. Department chairpersons can also be very helpful in answering questions regarding majors.

The Dean of Students Office is another place to come for academic and personal counseling as well as career guidance. Resident Assistants can be helpful counselors on a peer level. Monsour Counseling Center, located at 735 N. Dartmouth, is staffed by licensed psychologists experienced in helping college students resolve academic and personal concerns and is an especially effective and low-key environment.

The Claremont Colleges Chaplaincy also provides counseling on a full range of student concerns. It is located in McAlister Center just across the street from the Office of Admission and Financial Aid.

Learning and Physical Difference Accomodation

For students who have a documented learning or physical difference which requires reasonable accommodation for academic progress, the Dean of Students Office will help coordinate support services.

Please see either Dean Sun or Dean Huang in the Heggblade Center for more information.

The Writing Center

The Writing Center is open to all CMC students and provides tutoring support for a variety of student needs: essays, research papers, senior theses, and internship and graduate school applications. Trained consultants help students with all aspects of the writing process from defining the paper topic, to organizing an effective and logical argument, to developing a persuasive writing style. Writing Center consultants are available on a regular basis throughout the school year, and students can either make an appointment or drop in during scheduled hours. The Writing Center (ext. 74142) is located in Bauer 32.

Academic Standards Committee (ASC)

The Academic Standards Committee is composed of six faculty members, the Dean of Students, the Dean of Financial Aid, the Registrar, the Assistant Dean of the Faculty, and the Dean of the Faculty (ex officio). It is responsible for the formulation and application of College policies relating to academic standards and integrity. The Committee reviews student requests for late registration and withdrawals from classes, incomplete petitions, waivers of residency and other requirements related to academic matters. The Committee also is the disciplinary body for student violations of academic integrity. Appeals of decisions made by the Committee are directed to the Dean of the Faculty through the ASC.

Academic Probation

Students who earn a semester grade point average or a cumulative grade point average of less than C (6.0) are placed on academic probation for their subsequent semester at CMC. Students may also be placed on academic probation for other kinds of unsatisfactory academic performance as determined by the ASC.

Students are expected to remove themselves from probation after at most two consecutive semesters. Failure to do so may result in academic suspension. Students can remove themselves from academic probation by taking a full course load (four courses) and earning a cumulative GPA and a semester GPA of a C (6.0) or better.

Suspension for Poor Scholarship

A student may be suspended for poor scholarship for any of the following reasons:

a) The student’s grade point average for the preceding semester was lower than a D (3.0).

b) The student has been on academic probation for two successive semesters and would be placed on probation for the subsequent semester.

c) The student fails two or more courses in one semester.

Suspensions are normally for a period of one year. During this time students are ineligible to register for classes at CMC and this notation is included on their transcripts. The ASC will usually require suspended students to attend another academic institution before it will consider requests for readmission. The notation of the ASC’s action is removed from the transcript upon readmission and return to the College.

Incomplete Grades

Students may petition the Academic Standards Committee for a grade of Incomplete when illness or other circumstances beyond their control legitimately prevents completion of required work by the due date at the end of the semester. Incompletes are only awarded after approval of students’ petitions by the ASC, and are not given simply for failure to complete work on time nor as a means of permitting students to raise grades by doing additional work after the due date. On the petitions, instructors must indicate whether or not they support a petition for an Incomplete grade and evaluate the student’s performance in the course up to the time of the petition. Instructors also must give a detailed description of the work that needs to be completed and they must specify the grade to be awarded if the ASC does not approve the petition. Incomplete grades will be removed and replaced with appropriate grades if all work is completed by the last day of registration (10th day) of the subsequent semester, unless the Academic Standards Committee decides otherwise. If no grade is given to the Registrar’s Office by the due date, an Incomplete automatically is changed to an F. If a student has missed a substantial amount of work in a course, the option of a Late Withdrawal should be considered.

Procedure:

Incomplete petition forms are available from the Registrar or the Dean of Students. Students are responsible for completing the form and for obtaining all required signatures, including the instructor and the Dean of Students. Petitions must include supporting documentation.

Late Withdrawal (W) Grades

The grade W is recorded when students withdraw from a course after the last day to withdraw from a course without penalty and with permission of the ASC. The ASC may grant requests for late withdrawal if it determines that circumstances beyond a student’s control prevent completion of the course.

In addition, the ASC will consider approving late withdrawals from courses in cases where no graded work was available before the last day to withdraw from a course. In such cases the petition for late withdrawal must be submitted within seven days of the time when graded work is first made available by the instructor. No requests will be considered without appropriate supporting documentation. A grade of W does not indicate whether or not a student was in good standing in the course at the time of late withdrawal.

Students are responsible for the completion of the Late Withdrawal Petition form, including all signatures, for obtaining all required documentation, and for returning the form to the Registrar’s Office. Students on probation must indicate this fact on the petition form. Forms are available from the Registrar’s Office.

Faculty members must list on the petition form all course assignments completed (or due), with the grades received to date. The signature of the instructor does not indicate support for the petition.

Grade Disputes

The instructor is the person best qualified to determine grades in a course. However, if a student believes that a grade does not fairly reflect the quality of work done, the student should do the following:

Procedure:

a) Talk with the instructor. If a calculation error has been made, the instructor must submit the grade change in writing to the Registrar.

b) If after talking with the instructor the student is still not satisfied that the work has been fairly appraised, the student may appeal to the Dean of the Faculty. The Dean will then discuss the matter with the instructor and the appropriate department chair.

c) If a satisfactory conclusion still cannot be reached, the Dean will appoint a committee consisting of the chair of the department involved, a member of the Academic Standards Committee, and a third person chosen from a list of three tenured faculty members submitted by the student. This committee will make a recommendation to the ASC. The ASC will render a final decision which will be binding on all parties and will be reported in writing to the Registrar, the student, and the instructor.

Grade Disputes When Cross-Registration Is Involved

Please refer to the Statement of Academic Policy for information on grade disputes when crossregistration is involved.

Leaves of Absence

Regularly enrolled students with a current semester GPA and a cumulative GPA of at least C (6.0) may petition the Academic Standards Committee for a leave of absence for any legitimate reason. Students may transfer in preapproved courses taken while on a leave of absence, but the primary reason for the leave cannot be to attend another institution. The petition must include the reasons for the request as well as the exact semester the student wishes to return to the College. A leave of absence may not be for longer than three years. If the leave of absence is granted, the ASC will require the student to send a $100 commitment deposit to the Registrar. This deposit is nonrefundable but can be applied toward tuition if the student returns to the College as scheduled in the petition. Leaves of absence must be requested by August 1 for the fall semester and January 1 for the spring semester.

Students scheduled to return from a leave of absence in the fall must notify the Registrar in writing by March 15. Students scheduled to return in the spring must notify the Registrar by October 15. If notification is not received by these dates, it will be assumed that the students are not planning to return to the College. In this case the students’ names will be removed from the College roll and the commitment deposits, if received, will be forfeited.

Withdrawal from the College

Students may voluntarily withdraw from the College by completing the withdrawal procedure form available at the Dean of Students Office. Students who do so before July 1 for the fall semester and December 1 for the spring semester are entitled to a refund of their security deposit (after appropriate charges have been deducted).

Transcripts of students who withdraw from the College during the semester but before the last day to withdraw from courses without academic penalty will list no course enrollment for that semester. Transcripts of students who withdraw after the last day to withdraw from classes will list grades of “W” if the student’s petitions for late withdrawal from courses have been approved by the ASC.

Readmission

Students who wish to return to CMC after an absence of three years or less should send requests for readmission to the Registrar for presentation to the ASC. Requests for readmission must be in writing and include a brief statement describing why the students left the College and why they wish to return. Requests for readmission must be received in the Registrar’s Office by March 15 for readmission in August and by October 15 for readmission in January. Outstanding financial obligations to the College must be paid in full prior to the return to the college. Students who have been gone from the College for two or more years may be subject to amended general education or major requirements. See “Meeting Degree Requirements” for further information.

Students who are readmitted must send a $100 commitment deposit to the Registrar by the deadline provided in the notice of readmission. This deposit is nonrefundable, but will be applied toward tuition if the students return to the College as scheduled in the petition for readmission. Failure to remit this deposit by the date specified in the letter of readmission will cause the students’ names to be removed from the College roll.

Although each request will be considered on its merits, the ASC has developed the following guidelines:

1. Students who withdrew voluntarily while in good standing and who maintained an acceptable record during their absence from the College, will receive favorable consideration for readmission.

2. Students who withdrew while having an unsatisfactory academic record, normally will not be considered for readmission until after an absence of at least one year. Academic or other performance by these students during their absence from the College will weigh heavily in the readmission decision.

3. Students who have been suspended for poor scholarship will not be considered for readmission until the period of their suspension has ended. Academic or other performance by students during their absence from the College will weigh heavily in the readmission decisions.

4. Students who have been suspended for academic dishonesty may be considered for readmission only after the period of time stipulated in the notice of suspension.

Students wishing to return to the College more than three years after they left the College for any reason, including suspension, must submit their requests for readmission to the Admission Office. The Admission Office will consider these requests together with requests for transfer to CMC.

Transcripts

All requests for transcripts must be made in writing by the persons requesting their transcripts. The signature on the request must be an original signature. Forms are available in the Registrar’s Office. Transcripts are issued only when obligations to the College have been paid in full or satisfactory arrangements have been made. Students must allow at least ten days for processing of transcripts.

Transcripts are usually issued every Friday. The Registrar’s Office will make every effort to have transcripts requested by noon on Thursday ready for pick up or mailing after 2:00 p.m. on Friday. During certain busy periods, this may not be possible and students should be prepared to receive transcripts after the ten-day processing time.

Independent Student Status

Claremont McKenna College considers all students who are under twenty-one at the time of admission to be “dependent” and may disclose academic information (including grade reports) to parents or guardians. Students wishing to obtain independent student status must file such requests with the Registrar within two weeks of the first day of classes in the fall.

Rights of Students

In 1967 the Joint Statement of Rights and Freedoms of Students was adopted by colleges and universities nationwide. Claremont McKenna College affirms the general principles of the Joint Statement in the formulation and implementation of its own policies. The Statement may be obtained through the Dean of Students Office.

Off-Campus Study

Study Abroad

CMC strongly encourages its students to build an international perspective into their four-year program. It is imperative that students begin the planning process early, at least one year in advance. Students have the opportunity to study abroad beginning the spring of their sophomore year and ending the spring of junior year. To maximize the benefits of a semester abroad, students should meet with their academic adviser to discuss their plan. To receive credit towards graduation, students must apply through the office of Off-Campus Study, located in Bauer Center. Applications and programs are approved by the Off-Campus Study Committee, a standing faculty committee. To be eligible for study abroad, students need a cumulative CMC GPA of 8.5 but students who fall below that minimum may petition the Off- Campus Study Committee for permission to study abroad. For a list of programs and deadlines please consult the Off-Campus Study Handbook or offcampus.claremontmckenna.edu.

The Washington Program

Students on the Washington Program work full-time as interns and complete a research paper and take two courses taught by CMC faculty. Students obtain their own internships and have interned for members of Congress, at the White House and executive branch agencies, at think tanks, in the mass media, for advocay groups, at international organizations, and in the private sector. The program awards four course credits, is open to Claremont Colleges sophomores (second semester) and juniors (with priority given to juniors) who have achieved at least a 9.00 cumulative GPA, who have a strong interest in politics, and who have completed at least one introductory course in American government at the time of application. All majors are welcome. Interns pay tuition and a $95 student body fee to CMC while finding and renting their own apartments in D.C. Individual inquiries may be made through the Office of Off-Campus Study or see the web at washington.claremontmckenna.edu.

College Domestic Exchanges

CMC sponsors domestic exchanges with Colby College in Maine, Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Morehouse College and Spelman College in Atlanta. Most domestic exchanges are open to second semester sophomores and to juniors. Deadlines are September 25 and February 5. Students pay regular CMC fees for one semester, continue to receive full financial aid, but are responsible for their own travel.

Academic Resources

Libraries

There are four libraries of The Claremont Colleges: Honnold/Mudd, Denison, Seeley G. Mudd, and Sprague. The libraries’ resources include well over two million volumes, some 6000 subscriptions, and a growing collection of online resources, including several hundred electronic books and journals. Honnold/Mudd is a depository for government publications and also has extensive holdings of publications from the State of California, Great Britain, the United Nations, and other international agencies.

The collections of the four libraries, as well as collections of the libraries of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and the Claremont School of Theology, can be accessed using Blais, the libraries’ online catalog. Reference assistance, instruction for classes and groups, and individual appointments for instruction and research assistance are available in each of the libraries. Online reference assistance is also available.

The Honnold/Mudd Library complex is the largest of the four libraries, housing collections in the social sciences and humanities. This library is directly west and across the street from Pitzer Hall. The extensions are: Information, ext. 18150; Circulation, ext. 18372; General Reference and Government Publications Reference, ext. 73959; and Reserve, ext. 73978.

Monday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. to Midnight
Friday 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m. to Midnight
Books may be checked out up to 15 minutes before closing. College photo ID is required to enter the building.

Denison Library (ext. 73941, ext. 73942) at Scripps is located between Balch Hall and Grace Scripps Residence Hall. This library contains collections in the humanities, fine arts, and women’s studies.

Monday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 12:00 noon to 11:00 p.m.

Sprague Library (ext. 77437, ext. 18920), located at the west end of the Harvey Mudd campus, houses collections in engineering, math, physics, computer science, and general science.

Monday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 12:00 noon to 11:00 p.m.

Seeley G. Mudd Science Library (ext. 73492, ext. 18924) is located on the corner of 7th Street and College Avenue on the Pomona campus. This library houses collections in math and sciences, including biology, geology, physics, chemistry, and astronomy.

Monday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. to Midnight
Friday 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m.
Sunday 12:00 noon to Midnight

Pomona Department Libraries are open for student use. Call for hours.
Classics ext. 72212 History/Religion ext. 73075
Economics ext. 18118 Modern Languages ext. 18616
English ext. 72212 Music ext. 18155
Politics ext. 72448 Philosophy ext. 72921

The George G. Stone Center for Children’s Books (ext. 73670) is located at 131 E. Tenth Street. Its collection emphasizes children’s literature.

Monday – Thursday 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and Library (625-8767) is located at 1500 N. College Ave. (north of Foothill). Featured material includes native California plants.

Garden hours Daily 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Library hours Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

School of Theology Library (626-3521) is located north of The Claremont Colleges on Foothill Boulevard. This library specializes in religion, particularly biblical studies and theology. For additional information access www.cst.edu/library/libhome.htm. Fall and spring semester hours are:

Monday – Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Friday 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Claremont Public Library (621-4902) is located at 208 N. Harvard Avenue, in Claremont, and is a branch of the County of Los Angeles system.

Tuesday – Thursday 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays and all major holidays

Student Facilities

Crocker Reading Room is located on the first floor of Bauer Center, and is available for students to study, check out theses, and review readings placed on reserve by professors. Crocker Viewing Room, located inside the Reading Room, allows students to view various media provided by faculty.

Monday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. to Midnight
Saturday Noon to Midnight
Sunday Noon to 1:00 a.m.

Frazee Game Room is located between the Hub and McKenna Auditorium. Pool tables, game tables, and music are available for students to enjoy.

Monday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. to Midnight
Friday 8:00 a.m. to Midnight
Saturday and Sunday 4:00 p.m. to Midnight

Campus Bookstore

Huntley Bookstore provides essential services to The Claremont Colleges students, faculty and staff. Established as the bookstore for The Claremont Colleges in 1969, Huntley Bookstore is the source for all course required textbooks and support materials used at the Colleges. Huntley also carries many academic trade and reference titles, new releases, New York Times Best Sellers, academic study aids, school and office supplies, clothing and gift items as well as snacks and soft drinks. Huntley Bookstore provides both Apple and PC computer hardware and software at academic discounted prices. We also have a full line of computer supplies and peripherals and offer repair services for both Apple and PC hardware. Huntley is open year round and has a variety of additional services for your convenience.

Huntley has a full service ATM in our front lobby as well as a UPS drop box on our front lawn. We provide photo finishing services, copyright clearance and course pack production, special order services for items not found in the bookstore, textbook reservations, mail order services and a website that features items for purchase and an on-line textbook purchasing feature and other useful tools. Our web address is www.huntley.claremont.edu. Huntley is located at the corner of Eighth Street and Dartmouth Avenue, ext. 18168.

Monday – Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Research Institutes

Claremont McKenna College plays a significant role in addressing public policy questions of importance to society through nine nationally recognized research institutes. The institutes serve to enrich the curriculum and provide timely research opportunities for able students working closely with faculty scholars. They also attract distinguished scholars and lecturers to the College, provide students with a variety of internship experiences, and produce scholarly research valuable to the community, the state, and the nation.

Salvatori Center

The Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World was founded in 1967. Through the conferences it holds and the research it conducts and sponsors, the Salvatori Center seeks to understand the relationship between individual freedom and the economic, social, moral, ethical, political, and legal conditions essential for its preservation. Within the general study of individual freedom, the Center’s work focuses particularly on the American Constitution—its founding principles and subsequent judicial construction—and on questions of applied ethics.

Director: Charles Kesler, Associate Professor of Government
Associate Director: Joseph Bessette, Professor of Government

Rose Institute of State and Local Government

With the help of computer technology, students and faculty in the Rose Institute carry out research programs that advance knowledge about demographics and politics. Building large computerized demographic data bases and advanced geographic retrieval systems with the institute’s computers and graphics equipment, students become involved in a wide variety of projects. The projects include redistricting research, Latino and Asian political studies, election simulations, election analysis, public opinion surveys, and fiscal analyses of local governments.

Director: Ralph Rossum, Salvatori Professor of American Constitutionalism

Reed Institute for Decision Science

The Reed Institute for Decision Science was founded in 1975 for the purpose of involving students, mainly those pursuing courses in mathematics and economics, in model building and forecasting research. The institute has carried out projects for the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Forest Service, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a number of corporate sponsors. Each project has involved student research and both team-written and oral reports in a two-semester mathematics clinic format. The results of many Institute projects have not only played a key role in both public and private management decisions but also have been published in leading research journals.

Director: Janet Myhre, Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics

Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies

The Keck Center’s main goals are to engage students in the sophisticated anaylysis of contemporary international and strategic issues; to provide a vibrant intellectual environment of students’ benefits; and to encourage and support students and faculty to conduct research on important policy questions. The Center’s activities include support for students’ research, extracurricular activities and practical experiences, student fellowships and awards, curriculum development, public lectures, visiting professors, scholarly conferences and workshops, faculty research, research monographs, and library collections.

Director: Chae-Jin Lee, BankAmerica Professor of Pacific Basin Studies

Roberts Environmental Center

The Roberts Environmental Center (REC) encourages faculty and students to be involved in studies of our natural resources and to use scientific methods and concepts to help solve practical problems. REC pursues an interdisciplinary approach to complex environmental issues, with researchers in the natural sciences working closely with economists and political scientists in defining specific environmental problems and evaluating various policy alternatives. Researchers pay special attention to achieving a balance between essential progress in society and preservation of precious natural resources. Studentfaculty research teams focus on specific projects each semester, and students receive fellowships and other support for summer research projects under faculty supervision. Recent REC projects include studies of water quality and water pollution, endangered species in California coastal wetlands and deserts, and aquaculture research.

Director: Emil Morhardt, Roberts Professor of Biology

Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies

Established in 1985, the Center for Humanistic Studies examines the major forces that have gone into and are still at work in the formation of the modern world—science, capitalism, and industrialization. Its researchers are also concerned with the great changes in attitudes that accompanied the growth of the world. Distinguished visiting fellows are brought to the Center, Summer Research Fellowships are awarded to faculty, and six Dunbar Fellowships actively involve students in faculty research and course design.

Director: Jonathan Petropoulos, Professor of History

Lowe Institute of Political Economy

Founded in 1977, the Lowe Institute involves students and faculty in economic research on policy issues such as land and resource management, taxation, government deficits, government regulation, corporate governance, and international trade and finance. Conferences and seminars are held to highlight and discuss research results. Several research scholarships are awarded to students for research and internships both on and off campus under the supervision of faculty advisors, and summer research grants are awarded to faculty scholars.

Director: Sven Arndt, Charles M. Stone Professor of Money, Credit & Trade

Kravis Leadership Institute

The Kravis Leadership Institute is the driving force behind the leadership studies sequence, a grouping of courses designed to educate students on various aspects of leadership, bringing in psychology, government, history, literature, philosophy, economics, and military science to contribute to the fullest possible grasp of the subject. Students work with faculty at the Kravis Leadership Institute on research projects studying the role of confidence and optimism in leadership performance, gender differences in leadership, the management of diversity, and other topics. The institute also pursues a broad range of interdisciplinary research projects on leadership, entrepreneurship, and organizational effectiveness. In addition, the Institute organizes the annual Kravis-de Roulet Leadership Conference.

Director: Ronald E. Riggio, Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology
Associate Director: Susan E. Murphy, Associate Professor of Psychology

Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children

The Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children studies issues that affect working parents and their children. Students, faculty, and staff research work-family issues including backlash and familyfriendly policies, health, stress, and productivity, and the many factors that contribute to family-friendly workplaces and communities. We approach our research from a number of disciplines including psychology, economics, sociology, and public policy to study the challenges that face working individuals, families, communities, labor, and business and to effect change based on the findings of our research. The Institute sponsors a speaker series at the Athenaeum that included in our inaugural year author Ann Crittenden, film-maker Hedrick Smith, and Cathy Guisewite—the cartoonist responsible for Cathy. We work with students on independent research projects, employ students as research assistants, and grant summer research stipends to support on-going research with affiliated faculty.

Director: Diane Halpern, Professor of Psychology

The Children’s School at Claremont McKenna College

The Children’s School at Claremont McKenna College, which has served the community since 1936, has two primary missions: to provide a sound educational experience for young children and to serve as a laboratory for Claremont Colleges faculty and students who wish to study child growth and development. The Children’s School opened its new facility in September 1999 on the corner of Claremont Boulevard and Sixth Street. Please come by or call ext. 18086 for further information.

Director: Janet Dreyer

The Claremont Autism Center

The Claremont Autism Center is a behavior management treatment and research program for children with autism and their families. It has been in operation for 27 years, the past 15 years under the direction of Dr. Marjorie H. Charlop-Christy. It serves families from San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange Counties. The Center enjoys an excellent national reputation among parents and professionals.

Director: Marjorie H. Charlop-Christy, Professor of Psychology

Information Systems

Networking

CMC maintains a robust 10/100 Mbs network, which provides high-speed Ethernet connections to all buildings on campus. This system provides both Internet and intranet access to staff, faculty, and students. Students may connect to the network, either from their own computers or from machines provided by the College, provided they have signed the Computing Policy & Usage Agreement.

Computer Labs

There are two major computer labs at CMC: Poppa Computer Lab—the main lab, located in Adams Hall 204 and 205—and the Bauer Technology Classroom—which operates as a secondary lab after class hours, in Bauer 22. Both labs offer free monochrome laser printing, as well as PC workstations and CMC’s standard application package. In addition, Poppa Lab offers free color laser printing and houses a number of machines configured as graphics workstations.