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  PITZER COLLEGE, Claremont, CA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Pitzer College invites applications for a full-time tenure track appointment at the Assistant Professor rank with a specialization in economic development to begin in the academic year 2007-2008.
Pitzer College, a member of the Claremont Colleges, is an independent, coeducational liberal arts college in Southern California with an enrollment of 850 students.
Pitzer College has a strong institutional commitment to the principles of diversity in all areas and strongly encourages candidates from underrepresented social groups.
www.aeaweb.org /joe/0610d/html/joe137.html   (245 words)

  
  Pitzer College - Claremont, CA - Colleges of Distinction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Pitzer College a private, undergraduate, coeducational college of the liberal arts and sciences — is consistently ranked among the best such colleges in the country.
Pitzer students are encouraged to tailor their education to meet their specific educational needs and interests, to view issues from many perspectives, and to ask how the knowledge gained here can be used to make the world a better place....
Pitzer offers an outstanding education; a substantial curriculum; small classes; faculty who are both dedicated teachers and accomplished researchers; a supportive campus environment; and a network of accomplished and enthusiastic alumni....
www.collegesofdistinction.com /collegetemplates/default.asp?cid=204   (237 words)

  
 CMCStudents.com -- Pitzer College to Leave Claremont
Pitzer, which is facing potential problems with their re-accreditation next year, is considering downgrading their status to a community college, and is being forced by college presidents to move somewhere off campus.
Pitzer administrators are apparently considering relocating their institution to a lot adjacent to a landfill south of Chino, a source tells CMCStudents.com.
Pitzer is the only Claremont College that does not rank in the U.S. News and World Report top 50 liberal arts colleges (with the exception of Harvey Mudd, which ranks very high in the engineering category), and their poor academic reputation is thought by some to be undermining the Claremont Consortium's reputation.
www.cmcstudents.com /classic/pitzer.html   (467 words)

  
 EFS Profile: Pitzer College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In Claremont, California, Paul Faulstich and Susanne Faulstich, under the auspices of Pitzer College, are launching a new program designed to expose elementary school children to natural, local open space at the Bernard Biological Field Station of the Claremont Colleges.
LEEP enables elementary school children to be instructed by college students enrolled in a new practicum course, Theory and Practice in Environmental Education.
Pitzer's Leadership in Environmental Education Partnership helps to foster values of community involvement and land stewardship among children, college students, and educators.
www.efswest.org /resource_center/profiles/pitzer.html   (1083 words)

  
 Biotechnology in Healthcare: Pitzer College
Pitzer College is a close-knit community that embraces individualism and encourages students to craft their own paths.
Pitzer College 's campus is a thriving and active community.
Pitzer students participate in a wide array of activities on their own campus as well as social, cultural and recreational opportunities and offerings at the other Claremont Colleges.
www.daemen.edu /academics/BIHC/pitzer.html   (888 words)

  
 Pitzer College - Review of Admission, Undergraduate Program, and Student Life
Pitzer College is a small but prestigious progressive college in Claremont, California that emphasizes social responsibility and community involvement.
Pitzer was established with its primary emphasis on social and behavioral sciences.
Pitzer is known for being extremely laid back; students enjoy their studies and work hard, but don’t usually stress about them.
www.college-admission-essay.com /pitzercollegeadmission.html   (842 words)

  
 Bancroftiana, Number 116 Spring 2000: Chemistry Symposium in Honor of Kenneth S. Pitzer Held January 9 to 13, 2000
Professor Pitzer's wife of 62 years, Jean Mosher Pitzer, was at the symposium, along with their two sons and daughter, to accept the presentation of the bound copy of the oral history of his life.
At the Pitzer College graduation in 1966 he spoke of "Orthodoxy and Dissent." He said the college should be place to "pass on to the next generation the intellectual heritage of humankind" as well as a place to "encourage students to question ideas which are commonly accepted today." He championed "responsible dissent" of students.
Pitzer died in 1997, having achieved exceptional distinction as a scientist, educator, administrator, public servant, and philanthropist.
bancroft.berkeley.edu /events/bancroftiana/116/pitzer.html   (503 words)

  
 The Claremont Courier
The College Council is the highest governing body at Pitzer, excluding the board of trustees and the president, and has the option of voting on the resolution at its next meeting.
Pitzer vice president of admission and financial aid Arnaldo Rodriguez has emphasized, however, that Pitzer already uses the SAT in a much different manner than do large institutions with tens of thousands of applicants, many of which must use an application formula that does not include personal detail about applicants.
Pitzer mathematics professor Judy Grabiner, who has served on Pitzer's admissions committee, said she approves of Mr.
home.earthlink.net /~claremontcourier/121501/pitzerSAT.html   (797 words)

  
 Pitzer College Admission: Vault Student Surveys
Pitzer is part of the five college Claremont colleges system.
Pitzer is a private college, which for many employers is already a plus.
Unfortunately, because many of Pitzer's graduates or more artistic and free-spirited, their eventual incomes are lower (on average) than those of...
www.vault.com /college-admissions/Pitzer-College.html   (244 words)

  
 Pitzer College Admits Students Displaced by Katrina
Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley asked the members of the faculty to support the addition of approximately six students to our College on an emergency basis.
Loras College will work to place these students in classes that will transfer to their home colleges as soon as those institutions are able to reopen.
Loras is the oldest college in Iowa and the second oldest Catholic college west of the Mississippi River.
chronicle.com /forums/index.php?topic=24806.0   (789 words)

  
 The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The history of athletics at Pomona College and more recently of Pomona and Pitzer Colleges is as rich, complex, and storied as the Colleges themselves.
From 1895 until 1946, Pomona College competed as a single college under a variety of nicknames: The "Blue and White," the Huns, the Sage Hens, and simply Pomona were all used interchangeably.
Merritt, a 1925 graduate and a former football, track, baseball, and basketball star was hired by the college in September of 1925 as a freshman advisor and instructor of physical education.
www.thesciac.org /members/pomonapitzer.htm   (752 words)

  
 The Claremont Courier
Her goals, she said, are to get to know the Pitzer community and to reinvigorate it, to form connections with alumni and to raise money.
Pitzer was the only Claremont undergraduate institution not ranked in the first tier of national liberal arts colleges this year.
She said she believes a college president should be active in his or her community, and as a vice president in Cedar Rapids she served on a foster care review board, a regional history board and a mayoral campaign.
home.earthlink.net /~claremontcourier/111401/pitzerpres.html   (755 words)

  
 Understanding Modern Power Monitoring and Control
Pitzer College is just one of several commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities that have recently installed power management and control systems to avoid peak kW and/or kWh demand charges now imposed by several utilities.
Under the tariff agreement, Pitzer College must be able to reduce its circuit load by 15% and respond to the utility's request in less than 15 min.
If Pitzer doesn't comply with a request for load reduction, the load curtailment agreement would be immediately terminated and the college would be prohibited from participating in the program for a 5-yr period.
ecmweb.com /construction/electric_understanding_modern_power   (1312 words)

  
 Pitzer College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pitzer College is the fifth of seven institutions of higher learning known as The Claremont Colleges and coordinated through the Claremont University Consortium.
Pitzer was founded in 1963 as a women's college by Russell K. Pitzer (1878-1978), a California citrus magnate, philanthropist, and Pomona College alumnus.
Pitzer describes its academic approach as linking "intellectual inquiry with interdisciplinary studies, cultural immersion, social responsibility and community connectivity." Pitzer prides itself upon being the most "flexible" of the Claremont Colleges, most notably in its policy for allowing self-designed majors and limited and broadly defined general education requirements.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitzer_College   (2830 words)

  
 Welcome to Claremont.EDU
The Claremont Colleges is a consortium of five undergraduate colleges and two graduate institutions and a central organization that provides services shared by all students, faculty, and staff.
The Colleges are nationally and internationally renowned for academic excellence.
Students at The Claremont Colleges enjoy the individualized academic attention of a small college and the resources of a major university.
claremont.edu   (135 words)

  
 The Pitzer College Linkage Program - Pitzer Partnership - Western University of Health Sciences
Pitzer's strength in the social and behavioral sciences is particularly appropriate for students in this linkage.
Pitzer students study natural sciences at the Joint Science Center, a collaborative department which is interdisciplinary in the sciences and intercollegiate (Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges).
A B average, satisfactory scores on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), usually taken the third year at Pitzer, and recommendations of Pitzer faculty are necessary for the transfer to WesternU/COMP.
www.westernu.edu /xp/edu/joint_programs/linkage_pitzer.xml   (413 words)

  
 Pitzer College - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Rising stars: you may not have heard of these five college leaders before, but we suspect you'll be hearing a lot from them.
Pitzer College Latino Student Union fundraiser to benefit day labor center.
College is planning its buildings with the environment in mind.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-PitzerCo.html   (453 words)

  
 Pitzer Math Professor Honored with Prestigious National Award
Pitzer College mathematics Professor Judith V. Grabiner has won one of the most prestigious math awards in the country.
Pitzer has the best curriculum for non-math students of any place in the world.
Founded in 1963, Pitzer College is a nationally ranked undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
www.collegenews.org /x1010.xml   (545 words)

  
 Pitzer College Student Senate
Pitzer College's Student Senate is THE student government at Pitzer College.
Senate is composed of the Executive Board, as well as multiple student representatives to every standing College Committee, one representative from Hall Councils, 4 class representatives, one off-campus representative, one new resources representative and one PACE representative, a staff representative and 2 faculty representatives.
Student votes make up 1/3 of College Council; the President of Senate is one of the three members of the Pitzer Community that can call College Council meetings and set the agenda (the other two being the President of the college and the Dean of Faculty).
www.angelfire.com /ca6/PitzerSenate   (234 words)

  
 Pitzer College - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Pitzer College - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Encarta and The Princeton Review offer a variety of tools for college-bound students, including a database of college information, an online...
Search for books about your topic, "Pitzer College"
encarta.msn.com /Pitzer_College.html   (82 words)

  
 LATINA STYLE MAGAZINE - National Magazine for the Contemporary Hispanic Woman
Martha Figueroa recently graduated from Pitzer College with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish.
As the college-application deadline approached, I began visiting the career center and my counselor’s office, but my counselor was not able to attend to me as much as she would have liked to because of the large number of students at our school.
I wanted students like myself who would also be the first in their families to attend college to learn how to get into college and what to expect once they were enrolled.
www.latinastyle.com /currentissue/v11-3/college.html   (765 words)

  
 The -ISM (N.) Project: Pitzer College
Pitzer's -ISM(N.) course, "Video and Diversity" was offered through two departments at the college, Film/Video and Sociology.
Students produced videos that document how the Pitzer community is working with local communities to advance positive models of social change.
Pitzer College will coordinate quarterly programming in neighboring organizations and institutions which serve multicultural youth.
www.ibiblio.org /ism/schools/oldhtml/pitzer.html   (657 words)

  
 Pitzer College (2005)
Students are asked to design an inner-city residential college for Pitzer, one of the Claremont colleges.
The proposed campus is situated in a gap between the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles, CA.
The freeway is seen as a "shear force" within the community, and the interstitial site is treated as an urban "gray zone": it is presently occupied by a warehouse and a transit yard.
www.joshuaarnold.com /html/portfolio/pitzer_branch.htm   (232 words)

  
 Intercultural Studies and Social Responsibility: Diversity Pervades Curriculum at Pitzer College
Underscoring the importance of the Interdisciplinary and Intercultural approach, Pitzer reminds students as they design their three courses that this is viewed as a minimum strategy for fulfilling this objective.
What makes Pitzer's educational objectives so effective is that they are nested within a comprehensive institutional commitment to diversity that is inescapable, whether through mission statements and majors, the diversity of the students and the faculty, the co-curricular programming and collaboration with local and global communities.
What keeps Pitzer at the forefront of institutions striving to make diversity a central educational and civic component of all they do is their constant self-reflection.
www.diversityweb.org /Digest/fw02/pitzer.html   (1161 words)

  
 PITZER COLLEGE, Claremont, CA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Pitzer College invites applications for one full-time visiting professor position in economics for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Pitzer College has a strong institutional commitment to the principles of diversity in all areas.
CONTACT: Alan Jones, Dean of Faculty, Pitzer College, 1050 North Mills Ave, Claremont, CA 91711.
www.aeaweb.org /joe/0511d/html/joe161.html   (239 words)

  
 Pitzer College - College Guide Written For Students By Students
“The teachers at Pitzer are of a unique mold, in that all are trying to break outside the norm of teaching into new methods, concepts, and interdisciplinary approaches.
“The Five College Consortium creates a very interesting dynamic in that it is kind of like a large college feel, with a slightly different attitude at each individual school.
Read our Pitzer College guide and discover what it feels like to be on campus for 4 years.
www.collegeprowler.com /guide.asp/142740111X/index.html   (523 words)

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