Women Leading, Leading Women Series
Laura Skandera Trombley, President of Pitzer College Speech delivered at Town Hall Los Angeles on June 30, 2005 “The Tipping Point: Measuring the Quality of a Liberal Arts College Education” It’s an...
View ArticlePresident’s Report: State of Pitzer College 2007
October 23, 2007 Five years have passed since I began my tenure as president of Pitzer College and over that period of time as the direct outcome of our community working together, the College has...
View ArticleCASE’s Chief Executive Officer Leadership Award 2008 Acceptance Speech
Given by President Laura Skandera Trombley on December 9, 2008, at the CASE 2008 conference in San Francisco. Thank you Paula for such a lovely and generous introduction. Paula is one of Pitzer...
View ArticleState of the College, Fall 2009
To the Pitzer College Community: Every fall I speak with you about the state of Pitzer College, a summary of the prior year at the institution. During 2008-2009 there was enormous upheaval due to the...
View ArticleCommencement 2010
Opening Remarks from President Laura Skandera Trombley Welcome everyone to this day of celebration ― Pitzer College’s 46th commencement. I would like to recognize all of the families, friends, and...
View ArticleCharge to the Class of 2010
President Laura Skandera Trombley It is my great pleasure and honor to issue my charge to the class of 2010. Seniors, this is an aspect of our work together that is most special, and I have reflected...
View ArticleCommencement Address for the Pepperdine University Graduate School of...
President Benton, Dean Weber, trustees, faculty, family members, friends and the graduating class of 2013, I am deeply honored and very happy to be back at my alma mater with you this afternoon. It is,...
View ArticleBuilding a Better Trustee
By LAURA S. TROMBLEY Chronicle of Higher Education POV, from the issue dated May 11, 2007 As I complete my fifth year as president of Pitzer College, I recall the invaluable advice that a dear friend...
View ArticleALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Pitzer College Acting President Thomas Poon takes the ALS ice bucket challenge – with a sustainable Pitzer twist. In deference to California’s threatened environment during the on-going historic severe...
View ArticlePitzer College Talk
October 11, 2001 I am so pleased to be here with you today, and to have this opportunity to speak with you. Pitzer College is a wonderful place and in many ways fulfills my ideal of a liberal arts...
View ArticleWhere the Twains Meet: Iconic Figure, Family Man
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, issue dated January 11, 2002 Mark Twain lived an enormous, fractious life and was determined to defy categorization. In 1879 he commented to an audience, “I...
View ArticleComing of Age
This column originally appeared in the Fall 2002 Participant. In Feb. 15, 1963, an earnest Midwestern family man who landed in California in 1893 via Colorado and Iowa founded Pitzer College. Russell...
View ArticleWe Have Come of Age
Given by President Laura Skandera Trombley, February 15, 2003 at her inauguration which was also Pitzer College’s Founders Day, celebrating its 40th anniversary. I stand here today for every student...
View ArticleWelcome to the Class of 2007
Given by President Laura Skandera Trombley, September 1st, 2003. To the Class of 2007—Welcome to your future. Speaking on behalf of our community, we are very glad that you, our future graduates, are...
View ArticleBridging the Gap Between Fiction and Reality
This column originally appeared in the Fall 2003 Participant. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his Biographia Literaria (chapter 14, 1817), called drama “that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment,...
View ArticleThe Facts of Life for an Administrator and a Mother
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, issue dated September 5, 2003 The biological aspects of motherhood are not going to change. But what is changing — and growing — is the number of women in...
View ArticleWhich Is an Exercise in Futility: the SAT, ‘Survivor’ or All of the Above?
Leading colleges have been dropping the test from their admissions process. By Laura Skandera Trombley January 18, 2004 Context is everything. Cultural references that are familiar to young people...
View ArticleOur Mandate Is to Change the Universe
Given by President Laura Skandera Trombley on December 5, 2004, at the CASE 2004 conference in San Francisco. I am happy to be here with you today and I am honored to be invited as your keynote speaker...
View Article‘She Wanted to Kill’: Jean Clemens and Postictal Psychosis
Laura Skandera Trombley In late October 1906 when Jean Clemens was twenty-six years old, she recorded how emotionally devastating it was for her to leave her sister and father to move away and live in...
View ArticleSixth Presidential Transition Committee
Chair:Shahan Soghikian ’80, Chair, Pitzer College Board of Trustees Trustee Representatives:Don Gould Jill Klein P’15 Bridget Baker ’82 Convener:Nigel Boyle, Vice President for Academic Affairs and...
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Pitzer Presidential Transition Committee
Shahan Soghikian ’80 Dear Members of the Pitzer College Community, On behalf of the Pitzer Presidential Transition Committee, I am pleased to update you on the formation of the Committee, its mission...
View ArticleAugust 10, 2016
Members of the Pitzer Community, Recently, an article in local media quoted Facebook comments made by Pitzer students regarding their preference in race for their roommates in non-Pitzer housing....
View ArticleSeptember 30, 2016
Dear Pitzer Community, I know all in our campus community have been following the events that have occurred in Tulsa, Charlotte and El Cajon over the past week. Terrance Crutcher, Keith Scott and...
View ArticleNovember 9, 2016
Dear Pitzer Community, As we absorb the impact of yesterday’s election results, I urge the Pitzer community to come together to consider the implications for all members of our community, and for a...
View ArticleNovember 23, 2016
Dear Pitzer Community, Dean Boyle and I met with our Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) students last night. We discussed the concerns that have arisen regarding their educations here at...
View ArticleNovember 30, 2016
President Oliver and the Board of Trustees Declare Pitzer a Sanctuary College Dear Pitzer Community, Over the past several weeks, in the aftermath of the recent presidential election, our campus has...
View ArticleResponse to Jan. 27 Executive Order entitled, Protecting the Nation from...
Dear Members of the Pitzer Community, In November, the Pitzer College Board of Trustees and I declared Pitzer College to be a sanctuary college regarding immigration status, thus joining with others in...
View ArticleSupport for Transgender and Non-Binary Students
Dear Pitzer College Community, Yesterday, the US Justice Department and the Education Department released a joint letter that rescinds federal protections for transgender students under Title IX. This...
View ArticleHate Speech is Not Free Speech
Dear Pitzer College Community, Coverage in a local publication of a recent posting on the free wall has ignited a cycle of violent hate speech that threatens the safety and well-being of every member...
View ArticleTemporary Installation of “Apartheid Wall”
Dear Pitzer College Community, Pitzer College has been selected within the 7C colleges by the Claremont Students for Justice In Palestine (SJP), a 7-College student organization, as the site for the...
View ArticleBudget Committee Bylaw Amendment – Community Discussion
Since April 16, our campus has been caught up in a heated discussion centered around the Student Senate’s decision to adopt the following amendment to a general motion on changes in their by-laws:...
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