Shared Facilities, Programs, and Resources
Each college is independent in that, for example, students receive their degrees from the one college in which they are enrolled and administration and admissions departments are independent. However, large or expensive facilities and programs are shared. All seven-institution Claremont Colleges system is supported by the Claremont University Consortium. CUC provides centralized services, such as a library system, student health, campus mail, financial and human resource, telecommunications, risk management, real estate, physical plant maintenance, and other services, for those colleges.
Shared facilities include the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges, Campus Safety, the Tranquada Student Services Center (which houses Baxter Medical Center, Monsour Counseling Center, and the Health Education Outreach,) McAlister Center (home of the Office of the Chaplains and the Claremont Card Center), Huntley Bookstore, all dining facilities and several sports facilities. The Claremont Colleges Library is a superb example of the unparalleled level of cooperation in terms of support services. The library collection ranks third among the private institutions in California, behind only Stanford and USC, and it is clearly larger than any one of the schools could afford to own on its own.
Shared academic departments include the Intercollegiate Women's Studies Center, the Intercollegiate Department of Chicano Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Religious Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Media Studies, and the Five-College Theater Department.
Shared intercollegiate programs include the European Union Center of California, the Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Center, the Office of Black Student Affairs, the Office of the Chaplains, Hillel, the Asian American Resource Center, the Queer Resource Center, and the Women's Union. The Colleges also coordinate budgets and course schedules to allow for cross-registration.
In addition, three of the Claremont Colleges--Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, and Scripps College--share a single science program. These three colleges pool their resources to create the largest academic department in Claremont, the Joint Science Department. The number of undergrads who perform scientific research at the five undergraduate colleges is outstanding. Many research projects and courses utilize the Robert J. Bernard Field Station, an 86-acre (35 ha) natural area which consists principally of the rare Coastal Sage Scrub ecosystem.
KSPC 88.7 FM is the non-profit community radio station associated with the Claremont Colleges. Students from the colleges host KSPC shows and help run the station.
The Robert Day School at Claremont McKenna College is open to students from all five undergraduate colleges.
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