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  1. a collage of faculty headshots
    Faculty Excellence

    Back to the Classroom One More Time

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    3p Nick Owchar

    Alumni Weekend 2026 offers a chance to reconnect with Pitzer faculty and rediscover the conversations, mentorship and ideas that define the college.

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  2. Tessa Hicks Peterson
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    Classroom Liberation

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    How can higher education disrupt injustice and lead to collective healing?

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    • Critical Action + Social Advocacy (CASA)
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    Faculty Excellence

    Faculty Leadership

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    As of January 1, Professor Harmony O’Rourke is Pitzer’s new associate dean for student and faculty development for an initial three-year term.

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    • Dean of Faculty
  4. Prof. Edward Fanthome meets with Siena Giacoma
    Faculty Excellence

    Office Hours for the Soul

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    The important life lessons one student has learned from Professor Edward Fanthome

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  5. Chawne Kimber sits on a bench on the mounds while holding one of her quilts
    Faculty Excellence

    The Fabric of Life

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    3p Bridgette Ramirez

    Like her critically-acclaimed quilts, VP for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Chawne Kimber has threaded together many elements to create a richly dimensioned career

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    • Dean of Faculty
  6. An outside view of the west side of McConnell surrounded by a desert landscape
    Faculty Excellence

    Welcome to the Editorial Board!

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    Kevin Grell joined the editorial board of the Energy Nexus Journal.

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  7. Acosta poses behind the scenes of the documentary “BTS Army: Forever We Are Young.”
    Faculty Excellence

    K-Pop Fandom, Activism, and Academics

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    3p Bridgette Ramirez

    From BTS to K-dramas: Pitzer Assistant Professor Andrea Acosta introduces students to K-media’s potential for grassroots organizing in the digital space.

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    Organization

    • Intercollegiate Department of Media Studies
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    Faculty Excellence

    Professor Shares Insights on Changing Views of U.S. at the Olympics

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    3p Nick Owchar

    NPR talked to David Goldblatt, an award-winning journalist whose Pitzer courses look at the intersection of sport with politics and economics

  9. A view of the Pitzer Clock Tower on a bright day with the grove house and the san bernardino mountains behind it.
    Faculty Excellence

    Visiting Professor Offers a Personal Perspective on Events in Iran and Minneapolis in the Pages of Foreign Policy in Focus

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    Visiting Professor of Political Studies Shervin Malekzadeh publishes op-ed "What Iran Teaches Us About Minneapolis: This is what the possibility of war is like for an Iranian-American."

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  10. A closeup of the the Pitzer College bronze plaque on the stone pillar of the Pitzer Gate
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    Washington Post Cites Pitzer Alum & Professor’s Research in Medical Marijuana Debate

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    Is medical marijuana helpful or hiding deeper issues? The Washington Post references Pitzer alum Jared Weisman ’20 and Professor Marcus Rodriguez’s study in an op-ed.

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