Pitzer College is unique amongst institutions of higher education—it marries educational excellence and a commitment to social justice and sustainability with rich and quirky traditions.
There is a chicken coop on campus.
The Grove House was purchased for $1 and moved from Claremont to campus as part of a student project.
Fruit produced by trees behind the Grove House is regularly used in the Grove House café.
There may be a time capsule buried on campus, but no one knows where it is.
Pitzer students actively participate in College governance, with student representation and voting rights on all major committees.
Thanks to bets with students, Dean of Students Jim Marchant got a tattoo of the Pitzer tree and an orange mohawk.
There is a student-founded and maintained organic garden on campus.
Pitzer sits on an alluvial plane in the shadow of Mount Baldy, the highest peak in the San Gabriel mountain range.
Grove House chocolate chip cookies are famous.
Waste from the Pitzer dining hall is collected and composted, and then used to fertilize the campus.
Pitzer’s Founding Faculty Ampitheater is an outdoor classroom.
Pitzer’s first graduating class had four students, who designed the commencement regalia still used today.
The Pitzer dining hall was one of the first in the country to be trayless.
Much of Pitzer’s landscaping is native/low water.
Pitzer students relax in hammocks on the Mounds, the College’s central mall.
For the last four years, Pitzer has won Ellen the Pig, a piggy bank awarded to the Claremont College with the highest senior gift campaign participation.