Since it belongs to the Claremont Colleges consortium, students have access to classes and resources, including NCAA Division III level athletics, at nearby Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Scripps and Pomona colleges.
But the system designed by these 16 colleges works more like a traditional consortium: Students don't have to worry about transferring credits between institutions and no money is exchanged between the campuses, making the process seamless for students.
"The country is so diverse," says Bette Worley, president of the consortium, "and students can have a variety of academic, cultural and personal experiences right here in their home country".
Since the school is a member of the Claremont consortium, other students from adjacent colleges like Pitzer, Harvey Mudd, Claremont McKenna and Pomona are free to stop by and enjoy an almond milk latte at the coffee shop or baja fish tacos at the dining hall.
The assembling of a large and highly informative collection of bacteriophages by a consortium of students and faculty at multiple institutions demonstrates that a course-based research experience (CRE) can be successfully implemented at large scale without compromising the authenticity or richness of a scientific investigation imbued with discovery and project ownership.
In December, a consortium of student groups, colleges and teachers criticized the Education Department for failing to ensure that student borrowers are granted basic consumer protections.
The church also shelters the Workers Rights Consortium, which mobilizes students to pressure their college bookstores about the clothing they sell, and the Audre Lorde Project, a literary gay and lesbian activist organization that is named for a writer and social activist.
The college is a member of the Tri-College Consortium, which allows students to register for courses at both Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore.
We also introduce off-line downloadable software tools developed by the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium to help students learn how to interpret and critically evaluate the results of standard bioinformatics analyses.
The consortium, set up by students with the backing of several labor unions, now has 45 universities as members.
FACT: Tom Friedman's column has, for the last three years, been written not been by Tom Friedman but by a consortium of Malaysian university students studying artificial intelligence.
