Claremont McKenna College’s former Vice President for Admission and Financial Aid engaged in false reporting practices that went beyond inflating SAT numbers, misrepresenting statistics on ACT scores, class ranking and application numbers, according to a report published Tuesday by O’Melveny...
Scripps College has cleared two faculty members of allegations that were made against them in anonymous letters of complaint, President Lori Bettison-Varga wrote in an e-mail to the college community Thursday.Bettison-Varga wrote that Scripps could not offer any details about the allegations,...
Pomona College trustees and faculty professors spent most of their retreat last weekend discussing the education that Pomona students receive, despite some persistent tension between the faculty and the Board of Trustees over the firing of 17 employees who could not prove their work authorization...
The Pomona College Board of Trustees has opened a series of internal reviews and set up a task force on communication between students and trustees, prompted by the controversial document checks that cost 17 Pomona employees their jobs last semester.Members of the Trustee-Student Task Force on...
In a show of opposition to Pomona College’s decision to terminate 17 employees who could not verify their employment documentation before yesterday’s 5 p.m. deadline, 15 supporters of the terminated employees were arrested for refusing to move from the middle of an intersection this morning. The...
Pomona College fired 17 staff members yesterday, after those employees were unable to meet the college’s deadline for submitting updated work authorization documents. The terminations, which most directly affected dining services employees, marked the end of a three-week verification process that...
Student leaders at Harvey Mudd College (HMC) are planning to re-examine the school’s Honor Code and discuss possible changes at an event they hope to hold next semester. The idea for a campus-wide forum on the state of the Honor Code was proposed earlier this semester, after a spate of alcohol...
Pomona College began checking the work authorization documents of 84 of its employees, provoking widespread outrage from many students, professors, and staff members. Supporters of Workers for Justice (WFJ), the pro-union group of Pomona dining hall staff, began demonstrating before dawn on...
A proposed policy change to the Pomona College Student Handbook that would tighten the enforcement of rules governing where bicycles can be parked on campus provoked strong negative responses from some students this week, prompting the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) to send a follow-up e-mail to...
For some Pomona College students, the days of arriving at PUB or the Boot only to find that the kegs have already been tapped may be ending. Following a proposal from Pomona's new Associate Dean Chris Waugh, beer and food will now be available for purchase through the Sagehen Café at some Pomona...
The Claremont Colleges reported widely varying rates of illegal drug and alcohol use in their 2010 campus crime reports, raising questions about how reliably the published statistics reflect the substance culture of each campus. Administrators across the 5Cs said that the Jeanne Clery Reports,...
The Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA) is transitioning this week to a new set of leaders, after a sudden and unexplained end to Hughes Suffren’s 11-year tenure as Dean of OBSA raised questions from some students as to the direction of the 7C resource center.Suffren was placed on...
The interns say they were used. They say that working in the movie business without pay turned out to be an exercise in making coffee and taking out trash, a far cry from the educational experience they expected. They say that their employer acted illegally, a claim they hope to prove true in a...
Pomona College has officially lowered the standard of evidence required to find a student guilty of sexual misconduct in campus judicial proceedings, in response to a federal regulation that would make Pomona’s old practice a violation of civil rights law. As of Monday, any student judged more...
Pomona College has suspended the controversial 'Gotcha' program for at least one academic year, acknowledging that a procedure meant to promote safety awareness last semester had come to be widely associated with invasions of student privacy.Under the Gotcha program, a campaign to encourage the...
In past years, Residence Hall Staff (RHS) trainees at Pomona College used finger-snapping to express their thoughts about group discussions. This year, it was the...
Some Pomona students at Room Draw last week were surprised to learn that two floors of Lawry Hall were reserved exclusely for female students next year. However, according to administrators in the Office of Campus Life (OCL), the floors were set aside for only female students after the Resident...