Center for Global Engagement News & Messages

Students have played key roles in shaping future CGE programming, their curiosities and passions the impetus for initiatives that will catalyze new opportunities for immersive, interdisciplinary, local and global research and learning in myriad ways.

Pomona College broke ground Saturday, October 10, on the new Center for Global Engagement (CGE), the largest capital project in its history. The Center is expected to offer a new model of liberal arts global learning.

Pomona College publicly launched “Originals: The Campaign for Pomona College,” a $530-million comprehensive campaign and the most ambitious fundraising effort in the College’s history, on Saturday, October 10.

When it opens in 2028, the Center for Global Engagement (CGE) building will use 50% less energy than a typical structure of its size. Sustainability features will include rooftop solar arrays and drought tolerant landscaping.

More than 8,200 Pomona College alumni, families and friends contributed $63.8 million in gifts and pledges during the 2025-26 fiscal year, the second-largest fundraising year in the College’s history. 

Through an early Center for Global Engagement (CGE) initiative, Professor Pierre Englebert’s “Africa After the End of History” symposium and course will examine how the rest of the world now interacts with African nations.

In Pomona College Global Gateways classes, students studied movement in the history and the arts of the Weimar Republic during three weeks in Berlin, while others looked at issues surrounding diplomacty and human rights in Brussels and Morocco.