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Pitzer was founded in 1963 as a women's college by Russell K. Pitzer (1878–1978), a California citrus magnate, philanthropist, and Pomona College alumnus. In April 1963, John W. Atherton, the dean of faculty and a professor of English at Claremont Men's College (now Claremont McKenna College) was hired as Pitzer's first president, and over the next seventeen months he recruited students ...
University of La Verne: La Verne: 1891 Nonsectarian [c] 1,685 Leopards: 1926–27 to 1937–38, 1971–72 to present Yes Occidental College: Los Angeles: 1887 Nonsectarian [d] 1,839 Tigers: 1915–16 to present No Pomona-Pitzer —Pomona College —Pitzer College: Claremont: 1887 1963 Nonsectarian: 1,732 [4] 950 Sagehens: 1971–72 to present
The Claremont Colleges (known colloquially as the 7Cs) are a consortium of seven private institutions of higher education located in Claremont, California, United States.They comprise five undergraduate colleges (the 5Cs)—Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College—and two graduate schools—Claremont Graduate University (CGU ...
Oliver's tenure at Pitzer included the controversial vetoing of a vote to suspend the college's study abroad program at the University of Haifa to protest Israel's occupation of the West Bank. [5] On February 3, Oliver announced his plans to retire from his post as the president of Pitzer College at the end of the 2021–2022 academic year. [6]
Pitzer College — a private residential liberal arts college and member of the Claremont Colleges, located in Claremont, Los Angeles County, Southern California. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Stephen L. Glass, John A. McCarthy Professor Emeritus of Classics, longest-serving faculty member of the College, 1964–2011 [4] Judith Grabiner , Mathematics, history of mathematics and science; awarded the 2014 Beckenback Book Prize for A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings (MAA Spectrum, 2010); inaugural ...
Russell Kelly Pitzer (September 3, 1878 – July 1978) was an American orange grower and philanthropist. He was the founder of Pitzer College in Claremont, California, an early benefactor of the Pomona Valley Community Hospital (now the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center) in Pomona, and a noted philanthropist of other local causes in the Pomona Valley.
Russell Mosher Pitzer (born May 10, 1938) is an American theoretical chemist and educator. He was born in Berkeley, California and attended public schools in this and the Washington, D.C. area. He received his B.S. in chemistry in 1959 from the California Institute of Technology , his A.M. in physics from Harvard University in 1963, and his Ph ...