Pomona College is committed to providing support for students of color and diverse backgrounds, women and minorities in the sciences, low-income and first-generation students, students with illness or disability, and queer, trans, gender nonconforming or questioning students.
Pomona and The Claremont Colleges offer a number of resources for our diverse student population, including peer mentor groups, resource centers, student-led organizations, and academic cohorts.
Resources for Students
Assessment of Climate
- Perceptions of Speech and Campus Climate (2018)
- Sexual Assault Campus Climate (2018)
- Campus Climate Survey (2020)
- Full Results (Institutional Login Required)
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice
- Strategic Vision
- Lighting the Path to 2025
- Pomona College Diversity Indicators (Institutional Login Required)
- Lighting the Path to 2025: 2019 Progress Report (Institutional Login Required)
- Support for DACA
- President Advisory Committee on Diversity
- PAC-D Annual Reports (Institutional Login Required)
- Campus Climate
- Diversity & Access: Recruiting Diverse Students
- Diversity & Access: Recruiting Diverse Faculty and Staff
- Justice Education
Support and Infrastructure
- Diversity Officers
- April J. Mayes
- Brandon Jackson
- Harassment and Discrimination Grievance Coordinator
- Alejandra Gaytan
- Title IX Officer
- CARES Office (Title IX)
- Queer Resource Center
- Student Accommodation Services
- Workplace Accessibility
- Academic Resource Centers
- Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
- Academic Cohorts
- Sage Fellows
- Wellness Resources
Complaint Procedures
Education and Training Opportunities
- Hiring a Diverse Faculty: A Four-Part Workshop Series
- Implicit Bias Workshop
- Impostor Syndrome Workshop
- Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Workshop
- White Privilege and Anti-Blackness Presentation
- Planning and Conducting Inclusive Meetings: Workshop for Managers
- A Conversation with Rev Dr. William Barber II (video)
- Presidential Dialogues: Cultivating Empathy in a Time of Division
- Professor Eddie S Glaude Jr (video)
- Rabbi Sharon Brous (video)
- Imam Khalid Latif (video)
- Kevin Wynter and Hersey Suri (video)
- Liberal Arts Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance (LACRELA)
- Sustained Dialogue Institute
- Funded Department-Specific Programs/Initiatives
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Articles and Books
- Articles
- 106 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice, Corinne Shutack.
- Allyship (& Accomplice): The What, Why, and How, Michelle Kim.
- Black Trans Men Face a Constant Threat of Police Violence, Ash Stevens
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston Vox (May 28, 2019)
- The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
- “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh
- Why You Need to Stop Saying ‘All Lives Matter’, Rachel Elizabeth Cargl
- Books
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander - The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
Suggest an Additional Resource:
Email April J. Mayes, Associate Dean of the College
april.mayes@pomona.edu
Campus Resources
Here’s a small sampling of campus resources.
Visit Engage for a full list of current student organizations and how to get involved.
Asian American Resource Center (AARC)
The AARC, established in 1991, helps Asian Pacific American students of The Claremont Colleges develop intellectually, socially, personally, academically and politically. AARC provides peer mentoring.
Academic Support
Pomona College is committed to helping every student succeed and thrive. If you need extra assistance with a course or skill, visit the Academic Support and Learning Center, the Foreign Language Resource Center, the Quantitative Skills Center, or the Writing Program.
Chicano/Latino Student Affairs (CLSA)
CLSA provides support programs and services that enhance the academic success and personal development of Chicano/Latino students of The Claremont Colleges. CLSA provides peer mentoring.
Improving Dreams Equality Access and Success (IDEAS)
IDEAS aims to foster a vibrant community for immigrants and help bring increased awareness of immigrant struggles to The Claremont Colleges. IDEAS’ purpose is to organize, promote, encourage, and further the education of immigrant students by providing social networks and academic and financial resources to students.
Indigenous Peer Mentor Program (IPMP)
IPMP is a 5C mentoring program intended to help recruit, retain and support Indigenous scholars at The Claremont Colleges. IPMP is committed to building a sustainable community of Native faculty, staff and students on campus. Students involved in IPMP foster community on campus by hosting events such as Frybread Fridays, off-campus trips for Indigenous events in Los Angeles and weekly dinners for Indigenous students.
International Student Services Office
International Student Services Office is available to assist and advise international students on all matters relating to immigration status while enrolled at Pomona College.
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (MMUF)
This Claremont Colleges cohort program’s goal is to identify and support underrepresented students who are interested in earning a doctorate in the core fields of arts and scientists and becoming future faculty.
Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA)
OBSA is a resource center serving The Claremont Colleges that is dedicated to providing support, resources and space for students of African descent to feel safe, valued, informed and connected. OBSA provides peer mentoring.
Peer Mentoring
Peer mentors are available to students via resource centers, student groups, including MERGE (multi-ethnic and multi-racial students), South Asian Mentoring Program, the Queer, Questioning Mentoring Program (QQMP), and First Generation and/or low-income (FLI). Visit our Peer Mentor page for more information.
Academic Cohorts at Pomona College
Pomona College is committed to equity in the college experience for all of our students. To help foster a successful transition for first-generation and low-income students, the College has developed a number of cohort-based programs. These are: Pomona Scholars of Science (PSS) and Pomona Scholars of Math (PSM)
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (MMUF)
Posse Chicago
Posse Miami STEM
Queer Resource Center (QRC)
The QRC is a resource center serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, omnisexual, pansexual and allied communities of The Claremont Colleges. The QRC provides peer mentoring.
Quest at Pomona
The Pomona Quest chapter is a student group that serves first generation and/or low-income students that includes QuestBridge Scholars, as well as any and all students who identify as first-generation and/or low-income. The chapter offers peer mentoring, social events, workshops and support for its members.
Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC)
The SDRC is the centralized resource center for support for students with disabilities across The Claremont Colleges.
Women's Union
The mission of the Pomona College Women’s Union is to secure positive changes for women in their personal and political lives and to work toward deconstructing gender-based constraints within both local and global contexts.