CMC In The News

Prof. Zach Courser, co-director of the Policy Lab, joined KPCC’s “Air Talk” to discuss President-elect Joe Biden's cabinet picks and the latest on the national political scene.

Bloomberg Law quoted Prof. Ken Miller, associate director of the Rose Institute, on a potential outcome of Prop. 22's success.

In his New York Times column, Frank Bruni cited “Trump’s Democrats,” the book by Professors Stephanie Muravchik and Jon Shields, as offering one of the most “intriguing takes on Trump’s appeal.”

"The Constitution was meant to foster a complex form of majority rule, not enable minority rule," wrote Prof. George Thomas in an essay for The Atlantic.

In an opinion piece for USA Today, “America’s political future is a California-Texas duel,” Prof. Ken Miller wrote: “If you want to know the potential stakes in Tuesday's national elections, you need not look much further than California and Texas.”

The New York Times Sunday Book Review of Corinna Vallianatos’ new novel, “The Beforeland,” called her writing “haunting and precise.”

The Daily Bulletin featured Randall Lewis '73 P'10 P'11 P'13 and his $3.75 million gift to CMC to support innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Sacramento Bee featured one of the Rose Institute’s white papers about California’s voting rights, which noted that "it is likely, but not guaranteed" that by-district election systems can increase Latino representation in local government.

Seventeen magazine featured Aishat Jimoh ’23 as their first-ever Voice of Change for her volunteer work this past summer rebuilding homes and feeding the community of New Orleans.

Prof. Lily Geismer, who studies suburban voters, was cited in the New York Times.

In their New York Times op-ed, Prof. Jon Shields and Stephanie Muravchik contended that Democrats in working-class communities who flipped red to vote for Donald Trump in 2016 might just find Joe Biden appealing in 2020.

Claremont McKenna College was featured in a story about how campuses are preparing for a number of scenarios due to the lack of clear and timely state guidance for campus re-openings. The uncertainty has resulted in a “wild array of different configurations of approaches and solutions” among campuses, said Hiram Chodosh, president of CMC. According to the story, CMC had begun planning a fall return months ago, envisioning classes in larger spaces or outdoors, students in single rooms or small-group dorms, takeout food eaten outside with safe distances among friends. His campus plans far exceed Los Angeles County’s draft reopening protocols for colleges and universities, which Chodosh helped create as a member of the higher education task force. He said failing to take “measured risks” to reopen and simply waiting for a vaccine was not a “sensible way to confront the challenge.”

In a front-page story, “Covid Tests and Quarantines: Colleges Brace for an Uncertain Fall,” President Hiram Chodosh was quoted on the challenges facing U.S. colleges: “We have learned how to close safely. But the big question now is, can we open safely?”

President Hiram Chodosh was interviewed by the Associated Press about challenges colleges and universities are facing in the uncertain times of COVID-19.

Sharon Basso, vice president of student affairs, was interviewed in Fox 11’s series “New California,” which highlights a different industry and how it's changing in the midst of COVID-19. Basso spoke about how college campuses are planning alterations.