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Claremont McKenna College (abbreviated CMC) is an independent, coeducational, and private liberal arts college with a curricular emphasis on economics, government, and public affairs.〔 CMC is also a member of the Claremont Colleges located in Claremont, California, United States. Founded as a men's college in 1946, CMC became coeducational in 1976. Its 69-acre campus is located east of Downtown Los Angeles.〔 The college focuses primarily on undergraduate education, but in 2007 it established the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, which offers a master's program in finance. As of 2015, there are 1,293 undergraduate students and 20 postgraduate students. ''Forbes'' ranks Claremont McKenna as the 18th-best college in the nation, the 6th-best liberal arts college, and the 3rd-best college in the West in the 2015 rankings. Claremont McKenna is ranked tied for 8th with Carleton and Haverford for liberal arts colleges by ''U.S. News & World Report''. The Princeton Review rated Claremont McKenna 2nd in the nation for happiest students; The Daily Beast placed Claremont McKenna as one of the top 25 most rigorous colleges in the nation; and College Factual has Claremont McKenna as the 14th most selective college in the nation. With an acceptance rate of 9.76% for the Class of 2019, the college has the lowest acceptance rate of any liberal arts college in the nation. == History == Claremont McKenna College was founded as Claremont Men's College after the end of World War II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of the College )〕 Many of its first students were war veterans attending college on the G.I. Bill. CMC was founded with the mission to foster leadership in its students in the fields of government, economics, and international affairs. The school became coeducational in 1976 and was renamed after Donald McKenna, a founding trustee, in 1981.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Donald McKenna Biography )〕 The name change allowed the college to keep its popular acronym, "CMC". The college's motto is "''Crescit cum commercio civitas''", or "Civilization prospers with commerce". On the evening of March 9, 2004, after attending and speaking at a campus forum concerning a recent spate of racially insensitive incidents, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Kerri Dunn reported that her car had been vandalized and painted with racist, sexist and anti-semitic slurs. In response the Claremont Colleges and a series of demonstrations, candlelight vigils and community meetings were called to address the threat posed by an alleged and previously unknown group of violently intolerant students. Subsequent investigation by the City of Claremont's police department and the FBI revealed that Dunn had, in fact, slashed her own tires and applied the insulting phrases to her own vehicle. She was subsequently found guilty of filing a false police report and attempted insurance fraud. She was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay a fine of approximately $19,000 in restitution. On September 27, 2007, the College announced a $200 million gift from alumnus and trustee Robert Addison Day '65 to create the Robert Day Scholars Program and a masters program in finance. CMC literature professor Robert Faggen sent a letter signed by several other literature professors to President Gann, saying they are concerned that the gift will "distort the college into a single focus trade school." On January 30, 2012, President Gann announced that a senior admissions officer had been inflating SAT scores reported to the ''U.S. News & World Report'' by 10-20 points over the previous six years. However, in 2013 Time Magazine reported that "such a small differential could not have significantly affected ''U.S. News & World Report'' rankings." In November 2015, the College's dean of students resigned after students protested what they called a lack of institutional resources for marginalized students; the dean had implied in an email that minority students didn't fit the "CMC mold," and her response to an incident of allegedly culturally appropriative Halloween costumes was seen as lacking. These protests closely followed and were associated with the 2015 University of Missouri protests.〔http://laist.com/2015/11/12/claremont_spellman_resignation.php〕〔http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/11/12/55617/claremont-mckenna-college-dean-resigns-after-stude/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claremont McKenna College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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