Claremont School News

Trumark Homes is now the owner of the former La Puerta Intermediate School site. Escrow closed February 20 on the 9.77-acre north Claremont parcel, with a purchase price of $12.25 million. Claremont Unified School District has said it will use dividends from the sale to improve infrastructure at various school sites.

Citrus College and Arizona State University have partnered to form MyPath2ASU, a program to help community college students transfer to ASU.

After scoring 1600 on the SAT test, Claremont High School senior Ian Moore was recently named a candidate for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, an honor recognizing excellence in academics, leadership, and community impact.

Five Arabian foals have been born at Cal Poly Pomona’s W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center, over the past two weeks, with an additional four expected through early April.

Cal Poly Pomona and Avanade opened the school’s new Avanade AI and Innovation Center on February 21.

The Claremont Colleges have adopted deliberate, vigilant approaches in response to the Trump administration’s ongoing threats to higher education institutions that embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. But just how these threats will materialize remains unclear.

Hundreds of faculty, students, alumni, staff, and friends of Claremont Graduate University packed the campus Saturday for its spring centennial celebration. The event included campus tours, a community fair, an alumni art exhibition, a talk on CGU’s 100-year legacy, poetry readings, an alumni social and panel discussion, and the introduction of new interim president Michelle Bligh, who assumed office that day. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo

Claremont High School junior Kate Song, a member of the CHS’s Speech and Debate team (and also the Courier’s talented social media intern), delivered a resounding talk on February 28,  earning her a spot in this year’s regional Rotary District 5300’s Four-Way Test Speech Contest.

Some 20 Sycamore kids bettered their German vocabulary on February 21 with a free lesson taught by Claremont High students, part of Structured Program for the Acquisition of German in the U.S.-Resources and Know-How, or SPARK for German. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo

Four Montclair High School students were recently awarded four-year QuestBridge college scholarships to tuition, housing, food and other expenses at three universities. Elieen Leong and Arden Zheng will attend Princeton University, Kyle Mai, Stanford University, and Daniel Rico Rodriguez, The University of Chicago.

Claremont Graduate University Executive Vice President and Provost Michelle Bligh, who arrived at CGU as an assistant professor of organizational behavior in 2002, has been named its interim president, effective March 1. Current interim president Tim Kirley will step down after taking the position in June 2024. Bligh holds “a deep understanding of the university’s […]

Scripps Fine Arts Foundation and Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery host a free and open to the public 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 lecture and tea at Clark Humanities Museum, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, followed by a tour of Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, 251 E. 11th St., Claremont, the site of the 80th Scripps College Ceramic Annual.

Winners of the City of Claremont and Claremont Unified School District’s Making Change contest were announced Monday, including Condit Elementary School fourth grader Lizzie Hayward, who wrote about CUSD’s Senior Liaison of Youth and Family Services, Rosa Leong. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo

Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education named Denise Klinovsky as its teacher of the year and Cyndi Leier as classified staff member of the year its February 20 meeting. The board also heard an update to the district’s local control and accountability plan. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo

Cal Poly Pomona President Soraya Coley, 74, will step down as president and retire from the California State University system at the end of July. Coley became CPP’s first woman and first Black president in 2015. “Her tenure has been marked by investments in student success, campus facilities, academic advising, programs to increase belonging and […]

Carolyn Bertozzi, the Baker Family Director of Sarafan ChEM-H at Stanford University and the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry, is the featured speaker at Pomona College chemistry department’s 61st Robbins Lecture Series, themed “The Biology of Sugars:  Sweet Revenge on Human Disease.” Four free and open to the public talks will take place […]