For more than 75 years, Claremont McKenna College has held a unique place in academia, distinguished by our commitment to prepare students for thoughtful and productive lives and responsible leadership in business, government, and the professions.  With the successful completion of our 75th anniversary, we embark on a historic campaign that will provide for a bright future rooted in the best aspects of our past, producing future leaders whose performance and pragmatism are authentically CMC.  

The Campaign focuses on three core pillars:

Honoring Our Leadership Mission by endowing for future generations CMC’s distinctive model of undergraduate education, including small class size and deep relationships with faculty; undergraduate research opportunities through centers and institutes; our signature approach to leadership development, personal growth and wellbeing; and of course, the Open Academy, our commitments to freedom of expression, viewpoint diversity and effective dialogue.

Preparing Future Leaders Through Integrated Sciences by raising the technical and scientific fluency of all students to tackle the greatest socio-scientific challenges of the day, buoyed by interdisciplinary connections with the social sciences and humanities, and steeped in computational approaches, ensuring their ability to lead within a modern economy. 

Expanding Transformative Student Opportunities by recruiting the top emerging scholar-leaders regardless of financial need and removing financial barriers to the full, four year, CMC experience through guarantied summer internship funding, health insurance grants, family travel to campus, and so much more.

CMC is grateful for your unrestricted support of the College and our students.

It would be our honor to work with you on a plan to make your own impactful investment in the future of CMC and our students.  To schedule a conversation, please contact Ray Watts, CSPG, Associate Vice President of Development, at ray.watts@cmc.edu.