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Shared Resources
| The contiguous campuses of The Claremont Colleges cover 350 acres. Each campus has its own student body and distinctive personality. The shared resources strengthen the union of the colleges and provide students with the finest educational opportunities available to undergraduate students. All of the facilities are within easy walking distance of each other. |
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Asian American Resource Center (AARC)
Pomona College, Smith Campus Center
170 E. Sixth St. (909) 621-8639
AARC collaborates with other college offices, academic departments and student organizations to provide a range of educational, cultural, social, personal, career-oriented, and leadership development programs and services to students of Asian heritage. In past years AARC has sponsored an off-campus placement program, professional mentoring program, Asian Pacific American Heritage Week and Asian American studies faculty lecture services. Through its library, programs, and various forums, AARC serves as a resource for all members of the community who want to learn more about Asian Americans and Asian American studies. |
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 Athletics
Pitzer joins with Pomona College in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). Athletic teams include soccer, basketball, football, baseball, track & field, golf, tennis, water polo, swimming and diving. Pomona-Pitzer women's intercollegiate athletic teams include soccer, cross-country, volleyball, swimming & diving, basketball, track & field, softball, tennis and water polo. Pitzer students participate in the Claremont Colleges club sports programs that compete nationally. A wide variety of intramural sports are available to all students. |
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Bernard Biological Field Station
The 85-acre Robert J. Bernard Biological Field Station serves as a natural outdoor laboratory for many disciplines at Pitzer and the other Claremont Colleges. Unique for its urban surroundings, the station is within a short walking distance of the campuses. Station land supports coastal-sage-scrub, chaparral, oak-sycamore and grassland vegetation types, as well as parcels in various stages of ecological succession. Aquatic studies can be made on a lake-marsh ecosystem and several seasonal ponds. As a real-world laboratory, the station meets many ecological, enviornmental and experimental classroom and research needs of students, faculty and the larger community. |
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Bridges Auditorium
For more than 60 years, Mabel Shaw Bridges Auditorium (known around Claremont as "Big Bridges"--"Little Bridges" refers to Pomona's Bridges Hall of Music) has provided programs of major cultural significance for the colleges and the larger geographic area. |
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Campus Safety & Parking
The Claremont Colleges Department of Department Safety (251 E. Eleventh St., 621-8170) is the first responding agency on campus. Parking at the Claremont Colleges is regulated and a valid parking permit issued by Campus Safety is required to park on campus property. |
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Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Center
The mission of the Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Center (757 College Way, second floor of the new Robert E. Tranquada Student Services Center; 621-8044) is to assist students in achieving a positive and rewarding academic experience. This is accomplished by offering support services which complement existing resources at each of the colleges. Academic, social and cultural events which foster personal growth and multicultural awareness are also provided throughout the academic year. |
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Collage
The Collage (at Huntley Bookstore, 175 East Eighth St.) is a weekly student newspaper of The Claremont Colleges. Student staff is responsible for all aspects of publication, including story writing, editing, business management, and production. |
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Club Sports at The Claremont Colleges
Club Sports (919 E. Columbia Ave.; 706-1147) provides an opportunity for competition in sports that are not currently intercollegiate varsity athletics. |
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Health Education Outreach
HEO (919 N. Columbia Ave. on the lower level of McAlister Center; 607-3602) is dedicated to helping students find the most appropriate health and wellness information and support available. |
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Hillel
Hillel (McAlister Center, 919 N. Columbia Ave., 607-2096) is the Jewish students' organization and provides students, faculty, and staff of The Claremont Colleges with social, cultural, educational, community service, and religious programming. |
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Huntley Bookstore
Huntley Bookstore (175 E. 8th Street; 621-8168) provides a variety of essential services to the Claremont Colleges. Buy new and used required textbooks through the website, and have them shipped to your door or pick them up in the store. Log on to buy books early and get the best used prices.The computer department at Huntley Bookstore offers academic pricing on Apple and PC hardware and software; once you have been accepted you are eligible for academic discounts. The bookstore also carry dorm supplies, office and computer supplies, clothing and gifts. |
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International Place (I-Place)
International Place (390 East Ninth Street; 621-8344) is an active international, multicultural center for The Claremont Colleges. Located on the Claremont McKenna College campus, I-Place is dedicated to increasing understanding and friendship across cultures. |
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Libraries of The Claremont Colleges
There are four Libraries of the Claremont Colleges: Honnold/Mudd, Denison, Seely G. Mudd, and Sprague. The Libraries' resources include well over 2 million volumes, some 6,000 subscriptions, and a growing collection of several hundred databases, electronic books and journals, and other electronic resources. All of the collections, including materials in may unique and rare special collections, are available for use by students. The collections of the four Libraries, as well as those of the libraries of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and The Claremont School of Theology, can be accessed using Blais, the Libraries' online catalog. |
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McAlister Center for Religious Activites and the Office of the Chaplains
McAlister Center for Religious Activities and the Office of the Chaplains
(919 N. Columbia Avenue; 621-8685) serves The Claremont Colleges and represents, coordinates, and directs the programs of McAlister Center for Religious Activities. |
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Monsour Counseling and Psychological Services
Monsour Counseling & Psychological Services (735 N. Dartmouth; 621-8202) is available for those in need of counseling. The center is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 pm, Monday through Friday during the academic year. Appointments after hours may be made available upon request. Psychological and psychiatric services are available at no charge. All sessions and discussions with a therapist are confidential. Consultation services are also available to help students who are concerned about the emotional well-being of any friend, relative, or acquaintance. |
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Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA)
Office of Black Student Affairs (139 E. 7th Street; 607-3699) addresses the educational needs of students of African descent. The Office of Black Student Affiars is committed to diversity and all of its programs and services are open to all students of The Claremont Colleges. It sponsors numerous activities, which include the New Students' Retreat, Black History Month programs, leadership training, cross-cultural programs, speaker series, poetry readings, and other programs to enhance students' interpersonal skills. |
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Queer Resource Center
Located in Walker Hall on the Pomona College campus, the QRC supports outreach to the student community to raise awareness of gay, lesbian, and bisexual issues. The center sponsors an annual B-GLAD Week (Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Days) and a speaker's bureau, which provides panels for classes. The Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students' Union sponsors gay-friendly social events such as weekly support-group meetings. |
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Student Health Service (SHS)
Claremont University Consortium Student Services Building
757 College Way (909) 621-8222
A completed entrance health physical form is required to be on file for all under-graduates and necessary to secure a scheduled appointment. Appointments are available to students at no charge although there can be charges for medicines, laboratory tests, special procedures and supplies, x-rays, and physical exam for sports and study abroad. These charges do not need to be paid for at the time of service. Walk-in hours are from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. Students who come to walk-in hours are assessed for severity of illness and given appropriate care. In offering this service, the health center staff asks that students understand that there may be a waiting period involved. There is a fee for walk-in appoint-ments and a fee for missed appointments that have not been canceled two hours in advance. Referral for consultation and treatment by specialists in all fields within the community can be arranged by the Student Health Service but are not paid by the Claremont Colleges, and payment for them is the responsibility of the individual student. It is strongly advised that students have medical insurance. |
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Women's Center
Located on the second floor of Grove House at Pitzer College, the Women's Center houses information, referral services and a library. |
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