Stories of Sagehen Impact

Joe Cookson ’25 finished his career at Pomona one of the most prolific scorers to don blue and orange. He signed a contract this summer to play professional basketball with Finland’s Kipina Basket Aanekoski, whose season starts in October.

For the second consecutive year, the Pomona College community has come together to support our students and faculty at unprecedented levels. Read the full story in Pomona College Magazine.

Presented with their awards during Alumni Weekend in May 2025, these exceptional Sagehens shared a few words of advice for our students and recent graduates in the fall issue of Pomona College Magazine.

Remembering Chris Ponce, who led Pomona's advancement team from 2003 to 2012 and helped launch the College's "Daring Minds" campaign.

Nearly 27 percent of the Class of 2025 gave back to Pomona through their Senior Class Impact Project and Athletics Giving Day, besting the overall alumni giving participation rate of 18.8 percent for the 2025 fiscal year.

Pomona College welcomes 15 new faculty to tenure-track and tenured positions this fall. Six taught at the College previously, including an alumna. The other nine are newcomers.

Pomona College’s broad and rigorous liberal arts curriculum has helped Ashley Simons Hathaway ’18 succeed professionally. But, she says, it was a vector calculus class that unexpectedly changed her life.

Zena Almeida-Warwin ’28, Dannhi Nguyen ’27 and Jonna Sobeloff-Gittes ’25 participated in the highly competitive eight-week CLS program, which provides American students the opportunity to learn languages of strategic importance to the United Sta

A trailblazer for aspiring women physicians in the 1940s and throughout her career, Marjorie “Marj” E. Belknap ’47, who lived to 98, will help advance the career aspirations of future Sagehens with a generous legacy gift for student scholarships.

More than 7,900 alumni, families and friends gave a record $82.8 million in gifts and pledges this past year—breaking all fundraising records in the institution’s 138-year history.