The defining challenges of our time refuse to stay in a single discipline.
Climate change. Artificial intelligence. Global migration. Public health. Democratic participation. Economic inequality.
Meeting these challenges requires more than expertise. It requires people who can connect ideas across fields, cultures and perspectives—and transform insight into action.
Why it matters
Pomona’s model of liberal arts education is uniquely positioned for this moment.
Through close faculty mentorship, interdisciplinary inquiry, research and immersive learning experiences, students develop the agility, judgment and imagination needed to lead in a rapidly changing world. They learn not simply how to master an established body of knowledge, but how to ask new questions, recognize connections and pursue ideas whose answers may not yet exist.
What the campaign will do
The campaign will accelerate faculty-student research, expand global learning opportunities, strengthen interdisciplinary teaching and invest in emerging areas of inquiry. Together, these investments will help position Pomona as a national model for the next generation of liberal arts education—one that prepares students not only to navigate change, but to shape it.
What becomes possible
Students can pursue consequential questions alongside faculty mentors.
Disciplines can meet around problems too complex for any one field.
Global learning can connect scholarship with lived experience.
And Pomona can continue to evolve what an exceptional liberal arts education looks like for the world ahead.
Key Funding Opportunities
- Building the Center for Global Engagement
- New Endowed Faculty Positions
- Global Gateways
- Institute for Inclusive Excellence
- Global Collaborative
- Enhanced Faculty Participation in Academic Support
- Dialogue
- Further Investment in Academic Excellence
- Faculty Fellowships and Faculty Development
To learn more, email Laura Wensley, assistant vice president, development, or call (909) 607-4090 to speak with her today.
