by jpitney | Nov 9, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Dreier, Journalism, Journalists
From a brief talk at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Claremont McKenna College Washington Semester Program: The Washington Program, as we know it, began in the 1970s when Professors Fred Balitzer and Alan Heslop noticed that some programs in Washington would...
by jpitney | Oct 21, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Public Service
The Public Interest Fellowship @ The Claremont Colleges Thursday, November 13 at 12:15-1:15 pm Founders Room at CMC Bauer Center North 500 E 9th Street, Claremont 91711 Register: https://cmc.joinhandshake.com/events/1843724/share_preview Pieter van Wingerden (CMC ’24)...
by jpitney | Oct 2, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Dreier, Journalism, Journalists
CMC’s Dreier Roundtable is pleased to announce the Fall 2025 op-ed writing contest. Entries should be in the form of an op-ed article of the kind that appears in newspapers and news sites. The op-ed may concern any issue in public affairs, broadly defined, domestic...
by jpitney | Aug 25, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Higher Education, Race
Jon Shields at The Washington Monthly: A deeper problem than the campus climate, I suspect, is the curriculum itself, particularly in humanistic fields outside of economics and political science. I fear that the courses in many such disciplines are closing,...
by jpitney | Jun 25, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Journalism, Journalists
Claremont McKenna College alum Steve Grove has a new book from Simon and Schuster: Just after turning forty, Steve Grove left Silicon Valley as a Google executive to move to his home state of Minnesota with his wife and fellow tech exec, Mary Grove, and their...
