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Prof. Fortner and student at the Ath
Open Academy momentum continues with second major grant award

For the second time since the start of the calendar year, Claremont McKenna College’s Open Academy (OA) has received a major grant that w

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CMC’s answer: Opening the Academy through constructive dialogue

Humans are messy. The world, even messier—especially when difference becomes division.


Danielle Allen speaking in front of crowd at the Ath
At 250: Celebrating the Declaration of Independence with Danielle Allen

Danielle Allen arrived at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum with a joyful purpose.


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New book from Professor Nicholas Buccola explores struggle over an “American ideal”

On the same day Professor Nicholas Buccola’s book, One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal published, Buccola spoke at CMC’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, detailing how he came to explore an “important period in political history.”