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Pitzer College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont, California, United States, a college town approximately east of downtown Los Angeles. Pitzer College is one of the Claremont Colleges. With an acceptance rate of 12.9%,〔http://pitweb.pitzer.edu/admission/class-2019-data/〕 Pitzer has been recognized as one of the most selective liberal arts colleges in the United States. Despite Pitzer's relatively short history, the college has scored increasingly well in recent US college and university rankings.〔http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/pitzer-college-1172〕 With an emphasis on social responsibility, intercultural understanding and the development of a critical approach to the traditional disciplines, Pitzer College is known to be the most liberal of the Claremont Colleges. Pitzer College has a curricular emphasis on the social sciences, behavioral sciences, international programs, and media studies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Pitzer )〕 As it is one of the Claremont Colleges, consortium resources (libraries, dining halls, etc.) are shared and students from the school are encouraged to take classes at the other four undergraduate Claremont Colleges as well as at Pitzer. Likewise, students from the other Claremont Colleges are permitted to take classes at Pitzer. ==History== Pitzer was founded in 1963 as a women's college by Russell K. Pitzer (1878–1978), a California citrus magnate, philanthropist, and Pomona College alumnus. In April 1963, poet John W. Atherton was hired as Pitzer's first president, and over the next seventeen months he recruited students, faculty, and trustees and constructed Scott and Sanborn Halls just in time for the fall 1964 semester. During the College's first year, students and faculty created the curriculum and the school's system of governance. The College graduated its first class of students in 1965 and became co-educational in the fall of 1970.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pitzer College History )〕 That first academic term began with ten professors and 153 students from sixteen states and five countries. Pitzer College Presidents *John W. Atherton, founding president (1963–1970) *Robert H. Atwell, second president (1970–1978) *Frank L. Ellsworth, third president (1979–1991) *Marilyn Chapin Massey, fourth president (1992–2002) *Laura Skandera Trombley, fifth president (2002-2015) *Thomas Poon, acting president (2014, 2015-2016) 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「Pitzer College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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