

Students may also elect an Individual Program of Study (IPS) or an off-campus major offered by any of the other Claremont Colleges, provided one also completes a minor in one of the technical fields that Harvey Mudd offers as a major. HMC offers four-year degrees in chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer science, biology, and engineering, interdisciplinary degrees in mathematical biology, and joint majors in computer science and mathematics physics and mathematics or biology and chemistry. Harvey Mudd College entrance on Dartmouth Ave. Since any HMC student, regardless of class year, can live in any of the dormitories, several of the dorms have accumulated long-standing traditions and so-called 'personalities'. They were initially referred to as "the colonies" by some students, a reference to the fact that they were newer and at the farthest end of the campus these dorms are now more commonly referred to as "the outer dorms." The college had initially purchased an apartment building adjacent to the newer dorms to house additional students, but it was demolished to make room for Sontag. The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth dorms built are Atwood, Case, Linde, Sontag, and Drinkward, respectively. To this day "South" dorm is the northernmost HMC dorm. When the fourth dorm (Marks) was built, there was one corner of the quad available (the northwest) and one directional name, "South", remaining. Then "North" was built, directly north of "East". "East" was the first dorm, but it wasn't until "West" was built west of it that it was actually referred to as "East".


Mudd Hall and Marks Hall are almost invariably referred to as East dorm and South dorm.ĭuring the construction of Case Dorm some students decided as a prank to move all of the survey stakes exactly six inches in one direction. Until the addition of the Linde and Sontag dorms, Atwood and Case dorms were occasionally referred to as New Dorm and New Dorm II Mildred E. Graduates earn the highest mid-career salaries of any college or university in the United States, according to data from. The campus was designed by Edward Durell Stone in a modernist style.Īdmission to Harvey Mudd is highly competitive and the college has an intense academic culture. Although involved in planning of the new institution, Mudd died before it opened in 1955. The college was funded by the friends and family of Harvey Seeley Mudd, one of the initial investors in the Cyprus Mines Corporation, and named in his honor. The college enrolls 902 undergraduate students as of 2021, and awards the Bachelor of Science degree. It is part of the Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds and resources. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.Harvey Mudd College ( HMC) is an American private college in Claremont, California, focused on science and engineering.
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Professional sports teams that have Native American-themed names and mascots increasingly are facing backlash, including baseball’s Atlanta Braves and the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.Įppolito is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Some colleges, including the University of Utah and Florida State University, have agreements with local tribes to use their names and imagery. have built their sports team imagery around Native Americans, but advocates have said the number is in the hundreds and down significantly from decades ago.Īt the college level, Native American mascots seen as “hostile and abusive” by Indigenous communities have been banned in championship play since 2005. It’s not clear how many high schools across the U.S. They sought input from representatives of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation based near Bountiful, students, faculty and staff and community members. Redhawks beat out three other nickname finalists - Bears, Lightning/Bolts or Trailblazers/Blazers.Ĭalls for Bountiful to change the name mounted last summer during a nationwide push for racial justice following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the decision by Washington’s NFL team to drop its Redskins name.Īdministrators began reviewing the mascot in early August and created a committee to identify and discuss concerns by people wishing to remove it. He said the most frequent name suggestion was “Brave” but that was rejected because it was too similar to the existing mascot’s name. The Redhawks name was selected after the school received over 100 suggestions for a new name, Davis County School District spokesperson Chris Williams said.
