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Pomona College announces fall concert schedule

August 29th, 2023

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Pomona College’s Department of Music begins its free and open to the public fall concert series Sunday, September 10 with a 3 p.m. performance by Celliola and Friends at Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont. Then on Sunday, September 17, the department’s fête musicale returns to Bridges at 3 p.m.; followed by a 3 p.m. Sunday, September 24 performance by the Pomona College Cornucopia Baroque Ensemble. Grammy-nominated pianist Genevieve Feiwen Lee caps the month with the fourth concert in her series of Beethoven piano-violin sonatas on September 30. Lee returns at 8 p.m. Saturday, October 28.

On Friday, October 20, Lee returns to Bridges Hall of Music with Robert deMaine, principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, to perform pieces by Flaherty, Beethoven and deMaine at 8 p.m. Then at 3 p.m. Sunday, October 22, early music ensemble Artifex Consort makes its Bridges Hall of Music debut. At 3 p.m. Sunday, October 29, emeritus faculty organist William Peterson presents an organ program.

The department will also host student ensembles and concerts throughout the year featuring the works of Barber, Dvořák, Grainger, Lauridsen, Liszt, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov and more.

For more information, visit pomona.edu/news .

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Pomona College students pursue many academic and co-curricular interests and come from various social and geographic backgrounds. 

Students at Pomona enjoy both the intimacy of a small residential college and the university atmosphere of The Claremont Colleges. Interaction with Pomona professors is greater and more frequent than at a large university; at the same time, Pomona students have the libraries and multiple student services of the colleges in Claremont, which together enroll more than 7,000 students.

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There are 15 residence halls. Various types of accommodations include single, double, and triple rooms and suites. First-year students are assigned rooms on south campus. The residence hall staff includes residence life coordinators, student resident advisors, head sponsors and sponsors. The Residence Hall Committee—a group of students and administrators—is responsible for proposing changes in residence hall policy to the Student Affairs Committee.

The board program options for 2022-23 include the Ultimate Meal Plan with $200.00 Board Plus Dollars for students living in College-sponsored housing or the 10 Meal Plan with $100.00 Board Plus Dollars for students living off-campus.

A faculty meal plan provides for faculty to join students in the dining halls at the expense of the College, for two meals a week. 

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The Student Health Service (SHS) and Monsour Counseling and Psychological Services (MCAPS) are located in the Robert E. Tranquada Student Services Center, which is in front of Honnold Library. Both services are open each semester when classes are in session. The Student Health Service provides care for both acute as well as chronic health conditions, along with preventive care such as physicals and immunizations. Consultation and outpatient treatment by the physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses are available to students by appointment at no charge. There are minimal charges for walk-in visits, medications, X-rays, laboratory tests, special procedures, and supplies. Students may opt to pay at the time of service or have the cost charged to their student account. Referral for subspecialty consultation, hospitalization and surgery can be arranged by SHS but will not be financed by the College—payment is the student’s responsibility. All students must have a health history and entrance physical on file to use the services. These forms are required for initial admission to Pomona College as a first-year or transfer student. Forms completed by a family member/relative who is an M.D./nurse practitioner will not be accepted. All students’ records are confidential. Medical records are not made available to anyone without the student’s permission. The Student Health Service maintains a website where more information about medical services can be accessed.

Monsour Counseling and Psychological Services assist students facing personal and emotional challenges. MCAPS provides short-term individual therapy, medication evaluation, group therapy and referrals to other mental health resources. The following programs and services are offered at Monsour Counseling and Psychological Services: short-term individual counseling, psychiatric medication management, screening for anxiety and depression, support for students with learning disabilities and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), groups and workshops, consultation and referrals to community clinicians, crisis intervention, campus outreach programs and after-hours emergency consultation. Students who have personal concerns, psychological or emotional distress or who simply wish to talk with someone are welcome. There is no charge for the services of psychologists or a consulting psychiatrist at MCAPS. It is understood that a relationship formed with MCAPS clinical staff is confidential.

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At The Claremont Colleges, the Chaplains serve as confidential spiritual counselors, emotional leaders, and provide ethical leadership to the campus community at large. There are four Chaplains onsite, a Rabbi, Islamic Student Coordinator, Catholic Priest, and Christian/Protestant Minister. Though each Chaplain holds a specific faith, they encourage and support all religious and spiritual student groups and communities on campus, including Sikh, Hindu, Latter-Day Saints, Buddhist and more. The Chaplains offer confidential pastoral counseling, engagement opportunities and create a faith community for students as they pursue their education.

The Chaplains are located at The McAlister Center for Religious Activities. The center offers a full schedule of weekly worship opportunities, events that promote faith and learning, and celebrations of holy days. There are private prayer rooms, a library of religious texts and study spaces available in the religious center. It is the goal of the Chaplains to strengthen individual faith and promote interfaith relations, thus there are many interfaith events and community service opportunities. Please join us for our diverse holiday celebrations throughout the year, our weekly programs that support several religious traditions or simply to enjoy a quiet space to meditate and pray.

The Chaplains are located at the McAlister Center for Religious Activities, 919 N. Columbia Ave.

Contact the office by phone at (909) 621-8685, or email [email protected].

Services for Students of African Descent

The Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA) supports and enhances the well-being of undergraduate and graduate students of African descent earning degrees at The Claremont Colleges. OBSA collaborates with faculty, staff, administrators and alumni of the Claremont consortium of colleges to ensure a comprehensive consideration and creation of services that complement our students’ stellar education with culturally significant scholarship, programming and events. We offer individual and small group consulting and mentoring to advance our students’ academic, professional and personal excellence. In addition to academic and career advising, professional development and leadership training stand as a centerpiece of OBSA’s mission.

Recognizing the collective and individual diversity of the student communities we serve, OBSA explores the breadth of African diasporic life and culture through a wide range of opportunities. These occasions include hosting prominent guest speakers, cultural celebrations and community education workshops.

All students of African descent are encouraged to participate in the programs and services we offer. Along with providing assistance and opportunities while earning their degrees, we aim to support the realization of the students’ highest aspirations.

OBSA is located at 139 E. Seventh Street and can be reached by phone at (909) 607-3669.

Services for Asian American and Pacific Islander Students

The Asian American Resource Center’s (AARC’s) mission is to build a stronger sense of Asian Pacific Islander Desi American community, raise awareness of issues affecting Asian American and Pacific Islanders and Desi Americans, develop student leadership and act as a resource for the campus community. The AARC also houses the Asian American Advisory Board (AdBoard) which convenes Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) mentor groups across the Claremont Colleges. We organize our work around three guiding principles:

The AARC seeks to engage the Pomona College primarily, as well as the larger Claremont Colleges community. We actively target various people and groups through our programs and other opportunities for collaboration. We seek to put on informed programming that appeal to many different audiences. We’ve also held study breaks, film screenings and have invited experts to speak on many topics related to the Asian American community and experience. In 2018, the AARC launched an APIDA Alternabreak program which exposes a cohort of students to current issues and social movement of urban regions in California. The AARC also seeks and creates opportunities to co-program with other offices and organizations at Pomona College and across The Claremont Colleges.  

Production of Resources

The AARC seeks to support the production of new research, periodicals and videos that help to inform the community of various topics and issues relevant to the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience. We maintain a blog  and collect oral histories of APIDA communities in the Inland Empire.  

The AARC is committed to engaging the Inland Valley and Los Angeles Asian American and Pacific Islander community through service. We believe that participation in the local community will help to enhance the educational experience that our students receive while at the same time promoting responsibility and accountability to community building. Our service programs are:

Saturday Tongan Education Program (STEP) serves the Inland Empire’s Tongan community by providing academic support, cultural connections, leadership development, and other opportunities to explore personal identity. STEP is one of the few resources available to Inland Empire’s Tongan community. Through tutoring, STEP works towards the community’s empowerment and self-determination.

Motivating Action Leadership and Opportunity (MALO) is a nonprofit organization that serves Tongan Americans in the Inland Empire area through youth mentorship, job readiness, resource literacy, and cultural gathering events.  MALO is a core partner with AARC and students have interns, volunteered, and supported MALO in different capacities. 

The Asian American Mentor Program (AAMP) is a peer mentoring program established to support first-year and transfer APIDA students to adjust to college life. AAMP provides a solid base of social, academic and emotional support for students by fostering one-on-one relationships and organizing small-group activities and campus-wide events.

The AARC is located at the Smith Campus Center in Suite 240. For information about programs, contact (909) 621-8639 or visit the AAMP website .

Services for Chicano/Latino Students

The Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Center (CLSA) is an academic excellence service that supports student development through educational, social and cultural programs. CLSA seeks to build community through a variety of activities and events designed to bring students together from the five colleges. Specifically, the New Student Retreat, Latino Heritage Month, Día de la Familia, monthly lunches, study breaks, movie series, guest lectures and César Chávez Commemoration Program help students to network and form bonds of friendship and support. Moreover, every new student is mentored through the CLSA Sponsor Team. Programs are provided that enrich student cultural identity and promote social awareness. CLSA offers services and activities that celebrate the history, heritage and culture of Chicanos and Latinos. CLSA is located at 757 College Way, on the second floor of the Robert E. Tranquada Student Services Center. To contact CLSA, please call (909) 621-8044 or visit our website .

Services for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex and Asexual/Agender Students

The mission of the Queer Resource Center (QRC) of The Claremont Colleges is to empower each lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual/agender (i.e., LGBTQIA+) person to have a positive college experience, grow as a self-aware individual and be a responsible community member. The QRC does this through enlivening our physical space, providing quality programming, building strong relationships, encouraging personal growth, advocating for services, creating a brave space and documenting history. In working towards these goals, the QRC recognizes and actively addresses the diversity within and beyond our expansive queer and trans communities. This includes, but is not limited to, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, sex, class, religion, ability and the many intersections within these identities. The QRC provides year-round Ally Trainings for Claremont College students, faculty and staff and offers students mentorship opportunities through QQMP (i.e., Queer and Questioning Mentor Program), LEGS (i.e., Leadership and Engagement in Gender and Sexuality), and QSAFE (i.e., Queer Staff and Faculty Engagement) mentor programs to connect with queer life on and off-campus. To learn more about how to get involved with QQMP and LEGS and to keep updated on what we offer throughout the academic year, follow us on Instagram: @TheQRC and through our Instagram linktree. You can also sign up for our listserv.

Major programming efforts include planning social, educational and social justice advocay programs including but not limited to queer faculty and staff luncheons, gaymer nights, queer cooking and movie nights, letter writing campaigns, events focused on queer, trans, and intersex Black, Indigenous and people of color (i.e., QTIBIPOC), Gaypril events and Lavender Graduation for graduating students. The Director and Assistant Director are available to meet with students during weekly office hours at the QRC and host drop-in hours across the colleges.  The Director, Sharon Chia Claros, is also a confidential resource and you can email her at [email protected] to schedule a meeting.

The QRC provides co-sponsorship funding for conferences and collaborative programming, a large library collection of LGBTQIA+-related DVD’s and books for check-out, a free clothing closet and offers referrals to LGBTQIA+ resources and services on and off-campus. The QRC is equipped with 24/7 card-swipe access so students can access the space at their convenience together with an accessibility door (for the 2022-2023 academic  year, this resource will be  pending based on health and safety measures in the spirit of keeping our community safe as we are still COVID-19). The lounge can be used and reserved for student club meetings, doing homework/studying with friends or hosting events and programming (for the 2022-2023 academic year, because we may still be managing COVID-19 and its variants, the QRC will monitor space capacity of our physical space for community use based on guidelines from the LA County Department of Health to ensure the health and safety of our 7C students, faculty, and staff).

Policy Making, Student Conduct and Regulations

When students live together in a residential environment, as they do at Pomona College, it is necessary to establish policies concerning campus life.

Policy Making

The College values the experience and judgment of faculty and students in the management of college life. For this reason, many of the policy-forming committees of the College have both faculty and students as voting members. Students serve on the following committees: Admissions, Academic Procedures, Communications, Curriculum, Study Abroad, Public Events, Student Affairs and the Women’s Commission. There is student representation on four committees of the Board of Trustees: Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Buildings and Grounds and Institutional Advancement.

The College attempts to maintain a campus environment conducive to the personal and intellectual development of its students. Formulating policy for non-academic life and for developing, administering and enforcing the necessary regulations has been delegated through the president to the faculty. The committee charged with this responsibility is the Student Affairs Committee, which consists of five administrative officers and faculty members, the president and vice president of the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC), two other representatives from the ASPC Senate and a Student-at-Large.

Student Conduct

All Pomona College students electronically sign an agreement to abide by established community standards of Pomona College and to abide by its general practices that ensure an environment conducive to living and learning.

The basic philosophy governing conduct is that each student shares responsibility with peers, faculty, staff and administrators for the development and maintenance of community standards that contribute to the welfare of the entire Pomona College community.

Individually, students must bear full responsibility for their conduct, both within and beyond the confines of the campus. The College expects students to abide by local, state and federal laws, and to govern their conduct with concern for the entire community. Behavior on or off the campus that is contrary to the welfare of the College community may result in disciplinary action.

Pomona College’s disciplinary authority has been delegated by the Board of Trustees to the faculty, which exercises this responsibility through the Student Affairs Committee. The Judiciary Council, acting under a constitution approved by the Student Affairs Committee, is a student body chaired by a student. It holds primary authority for the discipline of students in nonacademic matters and is empowered to take action up to and including expulsion from the College.

Regulations and Policies

The Pomona College Student Handbook  contains specific regulations governing student conduct and academic life and is electronically distributed to students at the beginning of the academic year. The following are some regulations of general interest.

Students are required to live in a residence hall, unless an exception is made in the statement offering admission. After the second year, some exceptions are made to the policy on residential living, although the College generally expects its students to live on campus and to participate in the life of the College. Students who live on campus are required to take one of the meal plan options offered in the dining halls.

The College does not assume responsibility for loss or damage to students’ personal property. Parents and students should inspect their own insurance policies and determine whether the limits are sufficient to cover the student’s belongings in Claremont. Students living on campus are liable for all damages to or losses from their rooms, and all students are liable for damage they cause in public areas.

Pomona reserves the right to dismiss from residence or to withdraw dining privileges from any student who becomes an undesirable occupant. Room or board fees will be refunded on a prorated basis.

Students who wish to live off campus must make formal application to the Housing & Residence Life Office. Students who are married, have children or have health problems may be granted permission to move off campus. Students who have chosen a room and later request and receive authorization to live off campus will receive a refund of one-half the semester room and board charges.

First-year students are not allowed to bring cars to campus. Every student living on or off campus who plans to own or maintain an automobile, motorcycle, motor scooter or motorbike on the campuses of The Claremont Colleges is required to register the vehicle with Campus Safety at the beginning of each semester or within three days after the vehicle is driven in Claremont. There is a registration fee. When registering a vehicle for on-campus use, the student receives a booklet of information and regulations for which he or she is responsible. Parking and traffic regulations are outlined in the handbook.

All Claremont Colleges’ students who bring bicycles to the campus are required by law to license them with the State of California. Registration of serial numbers and descriptions expedites recovery of lost or stolen bicycles. Student bicycle registrations may be obtained at the Campus Safety Office free of charge.

Student Organizations and Activities

A wide variety of academic, social, political and other interest groups are represented on campus. Activities and organizations change from year to year as interests change. The most current listing of registered student organizations can be found on Engage,  via the Engage link on my.pomona.edu . 

Associated Students of Pomona College

The Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC), with officers elected by the student body, participates in the governance of the College by representing the students to the administration and faculty and by appointing students to a wide range of College-wide committees and boards. The Senate is the governing body of the ASPC and is responsible for administering the affairs and properties of the Associated Students. The Senate consists of the President, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice President for Finance, Vice President for Student Affairs, Commissioners representing areas of interest and Representatives representing classes and residential areas. The ASPC Senate coordinates student activities and allocates funds collected from student fees. These funds go to a wide variety of student clubs and organizations, including The Student Life , KSPC, the Women’s Union and the Pomona Events Committee (PEC). The Senate supports several student services, including the New York Times program, the airport rideshare program and the poster lab. The Senate also operates the Coop Store located in the Smith Campus Center.

Co-curricular Activities

Under the leadership of the Associated Students of Pomona College, the ASPC Commissioners, Senators and the committees on which they serve arrange many of the activities on campus and in the community. Pomona’s array of student organizations includes publications, religious, cultural, academic and social groups. Pomona students also participate in a range of five-college organizations.

The Pomona Events Committee (PEC) is the programming board of the Associated Students. Chaired by the Commissioner of Campus Events, PEC is responsible for providing social and cultural programs and activities for the College community. Committees of PEC are organized by the types of events (e.g., annual events, off-campus events, multicultural events, social events and live music). Committee chairs are selected in the spring, following student-body elections. Participation in PEC committees is open to all interested students.

Student Publications . The Student Life, established in 1889, is the oldest college newspaper in Southern California. Other student publications include The Claremont Business Review, The Claremont Journal of Law and Public Policy, The Claremont Journal of International Affairs, and Hear, Here.

Broadcast Media and Film . KSPC is an FM radio station owned by Pomona College and operated by students from each of The Claremont Colleges. Its broadcasting range encompasses the Los Angeles basin. KSPC is also streamed online via www.kspc.org and mobile apps. The station provides all interested students with broadcasting experience; students and community volunteers host a variety of music and talk shows. Students interested in television participate in Claremont Colleges TV (CCTV), a student run online television channel.  Students interested in filmmaking participate in Studio47, a student run organization that provides filmmaking equipment and training workshops.

Honorary Fraternities. The following honorary fraternities are based at Pomona College: California Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; Gamma Chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta sociology fraternity; California Alpha Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon national honorary mathematical fraternity; Delta Phi Alpha, a local chapter of the national honorary German society; Pi Sigma Alpha honorary society in political science; Psi Chi honorary psychology fraternity; Sigma Delta Pi, a Spanish national honor society; and Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.

Local Social Fraternities and Sororities . From the early days of the College, Pomona has sponsored a system of local fraternities. There are two, one of which has women members: Kappa Delta and Sigma Tau. As these fraternities do not own houses, most fraternity members live in the residence halls.

The Dance Program at Pomona, which exists as part of the Theatre and Dance Department, offers a modern dance-based curriculum supported by courses in ballet, history, theory and several cultural styles. Students from the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges, regardless of major concentration, have the opportunity to audition for participation in informal student productions, as well as faculty-student concerts. The annual Pomona Spring Dance Concert features choreography by renowned artists, faculty and senior dance majors.

The Pomona College Orchestra, College Choir, Glee Club, Gospel Choir, College Band, Jazz Ensemble, Balinese Gamelan, other non-Western ensembles and chamber-music groups offer opportunities for regular participation and public performance.

Through the Department of Music, students, faculty members and visiting artists give public recitals on campus.

The Geiger Fund, an endowment established by Hector Geiger in memory of his wife, Elizabeth McLeod Geiger; Mitchell Fund, established in memory of Robert Mitchell ‘23; and Hanson Fund, a gift from H. Endicott Hanson ‘26 and Alice Schulz Hanson, enable the College to bring distinguished musicians to campus.

The Pomona College Department of Theatre serves as the theatre program for all five of the Claremont Colleges.  The Department continues a long and lively tradition of studying and producing important dramatic works from around the world.  Students can participate in all aspects of the department’s dynamic production program as performers, designers and technicians, directors, playwrights, dramaturges and/or audience members.  A bequest by Charles and Marion Holmes enables the department to enrich its curriculum with guest artists, companies and teachers.

Pomona College, in concert with Pitzer College, join to form the Pomona-Pitzer Intercollegiate Athletic Program and compete together as the Sagehens. Pomona-Pitzer competes in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and is a member of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC).

Pomona-Pitzer Athletics offers 21 varsity NCAA Division III athletics teams, 10 for men and 11 for women. Varsity sports: There are men’s teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field and water polo; and women’s teams in basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, swimming, track and field, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball and water polo.

The Sagehens have enjoyed recent success at the national level in their last competitive seasons in 2019 with the men’s cross country team earning back-to-back NCAA National Championships in Sagehen history as well as berths into the NCAA Final Four for women’s soccer and Sweet-16 for men’s basketball.  Pomona-Pitzer has sustained athletic and academic excellence at the highest levels of Division III and continue to find themselves highly ranked in the Learfield IMG Directors’ Cup with their highest finish ever in 2022 at 14th place.

A Faculty Committee on Athletics, appointed by the president of the College, serves in an advisory capacity to the athletic director and as liaison between the department and the faculty at large.

The department has established regulations concerning the use of physical education facilities. Recreational users of the equipment and facilities do so at their own risk. They should carry accident insurance available through the College Health Service or through a plan of their own choice. Those who participate on varsity teams must present evidence of coverage, other than the College plan, before checking out equipment or practicing with a team. Physical examinations and other compliance documents are required of all student athletes prior to participation on intercollegiate athletic teams.

Club Sports/Intramurals Office

The Claremont Colleges have established two offices, under the administrative supervision of the Physical Education departments at Pomona College and Claremont McKenna College, to assist club sports teams in scheduling fields and facilities for practice and competition. The combined Claremont Colleges offer student-organized club sports teams in badminton, cycling, fencing, women’s field hockey, men’s lacrosse, rugby, men’s volleyball and ultimate frisbee.

Although the major emphasis is on competition within the SCIAC conference and with selected schools of the Haverford Group consortium, qualified students or teams may advance to competition at NCAA regional or national playoffs and championships.

The offices schedule and provide a trainer to attend home events for selected sports. To be eligible to use a Claremont Colleges’ field or facility or receive funding assistance from the associated student governments, a club sport must be registered with the Office of Intramural, Club and Recreational Sports and the Smith Campus Center Office. The directors for intramural, club and recreational sports are available to assist in the registration process by maintaining copies of all required records, forms and waivers and will coordinate the scheduling and use of fields and facilities. Individual club sports are responsible for their own funding, membership, coaches/advisors, equipment and transportation. Copies of The Claremont Colleges Club Sports Handbook are available in the club sports offices.

Intramurals . The College also sponsors an extensive intramural program. Schedules are arranged for men’s, women’s and coeducational teams in activities ranging from beach volleyball to flag football to inner-tube water polo. Competition centers around the dormitory leagues, but some competition also occurs in independent leagues and at individual meets.

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Tours will generally focus on the campus core. We encourage you to explore the rest of campus if you like.  

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Are you either a high school or community college student interested in what the College of Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona has to offer? Want to tour our hands-on labs and classrooms, where you'll be guided by passionate engineering students?

Then register for the GET. Tours begin in the spring 2024 semester! Scroll down below for tour dates.

GET Program

The College of Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona is proud to offer the GET.

The GET briefly overviews the field of engineering, the engineering majors offered at Cal Poly Pomona, and what sets a Cal Poly Pomona College of Engineering education apart from other schools. An engineering student will guide you through some of our engineering labs, a key part of Cal Poly Pomona's hands-on, learn by doing curriculum. Tours are designed to help high school and college transfer students learn about engineering and what opportunities Cal Poly Pomona College of Engineering offer students.

Tours last approximately one hour but allow time for a Q & A with your guide at the end. Your Cal Poly Pomona experience doesn't need to end with the GET! We encourage guests to also take a campus tour, coordinated by the Office of Outreach, Recruitment & Educational Partnerships.

GET Guidelines/FAQs

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We are happy to offer this amenity and share our Learn by Doing philosophy and ask that you remember that this is an active learning environment. To manage expectations please note that our labs are used as classrooms seven days a week. For this reason, tour times and dates are not flexible. The GET is offered once a month and dates and times can be found on our GET event website .

All labs shown on tours are preselected by the College of Engineering. Please note that certain labs may not be seen. Due to our Learn by Doing environment and our goal of small class sizes, lab capacities are small. To ensure safety participants are required to wear closed toed shoes and abide by fire code regulations which may mean staggering departure times for large groups to avoid exceeding the capacity of about 20 individuals maximum.

Our labs have various machines, pieces of equipment, and on-going student projects. In order to ensure everyone's safety during the GET no one under the age of 12 will be allowed to participate in a tour.

How do I register for a tour?

• Read the GET guidelines above
• Read and mentally select one of the GET dates (listed below)
• Email [email protected] with your requested date and the number of individuals in your group.
• A College of Engineering representative will contact you to confirm availability and details for your tour.
• A detailed email with maps and meeting location will be emailed prior to your scheduled tour.

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From the 210 freeway (east or west)

Take the 210 freeway and follow the junction to the 57 freeway south. Exit on Temple Avenue and turn right (down the hill). Turn right on South Campus Drive (electronic marquee on corner), turn left on Kellogg Drive. Follow Kellogg Drive to traffic light turn right onto Kellogg Drive. Continue to first traffic light, Palm Drive, turn left. Take Palm Drive to stop sign proceed to the parking booth.

From the 10 freeway (east or west)

Exit at Kellogg Drive. Stay in your left lane, you should be on the left side of the large electronic marquee that welcomes visitors. Follow Kellogg Drive, pass straight through the four way stop (University Drive) and proceed to the next light, Palm Drive. Turn right onto Palm Drive. Take Palm Drive to stop sign proceed to the parking booth.

From the 60 freeway traveling east

Follow the junction onto the 57 freeway north. Exit at Temple Avenue and turn left (down the hill). Turn right on South Campus Drive (you should see a large electronic marquee that welcomes visitors), left on Kellogg Drive, and turn left at Palm Drive. Take Palm Drive to stop sign, proceed to the parking booth.

From the 60 freeway traveling west

Exit at Diamond Bar Boulevard and turn right. Turn left on Temple Avenue, right on South Campus Drive (you should see a large electronic marquee that welcomes visitors), left on Kellogg Drive, and turn left at Palm Drive. Take Palm Drive to stop sign, proceed to the parking booth.

Parking Instructions

Parking permits are $8.00 and required 24/7. They can be purchased at any yellow parking kiosk or the parking information booth. Visibly place printed permit in vehicle on dashboard.

The benefit of obtaining your permit from the parking booth is that the attendant will inform you of which lots are accessible with your permit. Otherwise, it is important to read all parking lot posted signs to ensure that it is a student/guest friendly lot. Do not park in a faculty/staff lot, permits are not valid for faculty staff lots and may result in a citation.

If you are bringing a bus please email [email protected] to coordinate parking arrangements.

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Tours will be only be offered on dates and times listed below. Please note the GET program will go on hiatus in winter (December-January) and summer (May-August) and tours are not available after 5:00 PM Monday through Friday, on weekends, or on university holidays or closures.

Spring 2024

Fri., February 9, 2024 | 10 AM - 12 noon - All tour slots filled. Please choose another date. Fri., March 15, 2024 | 10 AM - 12 noon - All tour slots filled. Please choose another date. Fri., April 19, 2024 | 10 AM - 12 noon -  All tour slots filled. Please choose another date.

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How Neal Shipley claimed Masters low amateur honors: ‘A little bit of grit’

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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Neal Shipley wasn’t raised in a golf family. But he did grow up with a family that loved golf.

The Sunday afternoon of the 2004 PGA Championship was all it took for the Ohio State graduate student — the only amateur to make the cut at this week’s Masters — to fish his dad’s neglected golf clubs out of a closet and give this humbling game a lifelong shot.

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“Me and my dad were on our couch,” Shipley said Friday after finishing 36 holes at Augusta National at 3 over and making the cut by three shots. “And Vijay Singh won. The next day I took my dad’s golf clubs, which were dusty and probably never used, and started swinging around. I decided to get my own little set, and it took off from there.”

Shipley wasn’t just hooked; he was adamant. As an elementary schooler, he told anyone in his hometown of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., that he intended to become a professional golfer. In the second grade, he took his bag to school for “show and tell.” Shipley’s class ventured outdoors at recess to watch him launch drives into the schoolyard. He was a regular at his local junior league. Shipley’s family eventually decided to join St. Clair Country Club so he could properly hone his craft.

“We joined a country club so that he’d have a place to play,” says his father, also named Neal Shipley, “but we’re not country club people.”

Twenty years later, Shipley will play the weekend at the 88th Masters at a firm and fast Augusta National after being invited as the 2023 U.S. Amateur runner-up. He’s tied for 30th, hanging right in there with legends of the game, including 61-year-old Singh, who sits at 4 over, one stroke behind the 23-year-old on the leaderboard through 36 holes.

With his signature long locks spilling down his neck, Shipley will walk up the 18th fairway Sunday evening with low amateur honors locked up. He is the only survivor of the five amateurs in the field. But that wasn’t always guaranteed.

Shipley’s name snuck into the top 10 early Friday morning with back-to-back birdies on his second and third holes to reach 3 under. Hours later, he endured an Augusta National ritual: an Amen Corner implosion.

A drive in the pine straw and a sloppy three-putt on 11, followed by a misplaced tee shot on the par-3 12th cost Shipley three shots in two holes, bringing the projected cut line dangerously into play with winds picking up by the minute.

The remainder of Shipley’s back nine wasn’t perfect, but he hammered away, holing a 39-footer and a 20-footer for birdies at Nos. 13 and 15, respectively.

“He’s a Western Pennsylvania kid,” Shipley’s dad says. “We all have a little bit of grit.”

Following a birdie on No. 13, Neal Shipley is the lowest amateur on the course. #themasters pic.twitter.com/3MAjI3yltE — The Masters (@TheMasters) April 11, 2024

To follow his stunning opening-round 71, Shipley carded a 4-over 76 Friday. It could have been a lot worse, but it wasn’t. A bogey at the 18th put Shipley just inside the cut line for the moment, which ballooned as the afternoon wore on. Now the graduate student is tied with Akshay Bhatia, last week’s PGA Tour winner, and nine shots off of Max Homa, Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau’s shared lead.

“After going bogey, double, bogey on that stretch there, it’s easy to lose some momentum,” Shipley said. “We did a good job of staying in it and just trying to hit some good golf shots the entire time.”

Shipley uses “we” like a seasoned pro when describing the shots he executed alongside his caddie Friday afternoon. But when Shipley uses the plural pronoun, he means it.

Shipley has his childhood best friend, Carter Pitcairn, a sophomore on the Wisconsin golf team, on the bag for him this week. The pair also teamed up at the U.S. Amateur at Cherry Hills last summer, the championship that got him into the Masters field and brought him momentary viral stardom for his everyman vibe and candid personality. When he officially punched his ticket to the Masters, Shipley slammed his burly physique into Pitcairn and yelled ‘Gimme some!’ on the Golf Channel broadcast.

Pitcairn and Shipley attended the same high school, grew up playing the same golf course and shared transportation to and from team practice every day for a year.

“A lot of McDonald’s trips and miles together in the car,” Shipley said. “A bunch of country music. We both like to go fly-fishing too and do stuff like that.”

Shipley might be the one touching the club, but his family might as well be holding on with him. And that doesn’t just include his father and his mother, Susie, who tracked every shot Thursday and Friday. It’s his 26-year-old sister, Fabi, and 21-year-old brother, Max. It’s his roommate, Jacob, who is eager to share stories about the dart board in their apartment back in Columbus, and Jacob’s father, who brags about how fast Shipley can down a beer. It’s Pitcairn’s parents and Shipley’s Ohio State college coach.

The Shipley crew runs deep — approximately 15 people are watching him this week in Augusta — and their collective Masters memories will run even deeper no matter what happens next.

Shipley’s success this week didn’t shock his circle of friends, family members and teammates supporting him here in Augusta. Before completing a graduate degree at Ohio State, Shipley earned his degree in quantitative finance from James Madison University with minors in mathematics and economics.

Shipley is an analytical thinker, and he took every measure to prepare for his week at the Masters. He used all five practice trips allotted for amateurs to acclimate to Augusta National, playing 140 holes on the Alister MacKenzie design before the tournament began. Shipley also had lunch with six-time Masters champion and Ohio State alum Jack Nicklaus, who shared pivotal course strategy insights, and received additional advice from Larry Mize.

The intensity with which Shipley prepared for the Masters was partly because it could be his only Masters. Shipley’s game got hot right before his run at U.S. Am. Coming out of high school, he barely cracked the top 400 in his class ranking. After three years at James Madison, he stood at No. 1,497 in the world amateur golf ranking. Shipley’s recent form has been strong, but you never know what can happen in this tumultuous game.

“Maybe things don’t turn out the way you want to,” Shipley says. “I certainly don’t think it’s going to be my last Masters, but I think you have to treat every Masters as if it’s your last, probably until you win. I think that kept me loose and not as nervous, just trying to enjoy the moment.”

Shipley might not know it yet, but no matter what transpires over the weekend and in his professional career, he won’t remember the 2024 Masters for his birdies and bogeys.

The elder Neal Shipley pauses mid-sentence as he stands underneath the big oak tree that shades the Augusta National clubhouse, tears welling in his eyes.

He’s recounting a devotional he shared with his son before the Masters. Now the father isn’t sure of what he’ll get to say to Neal in advance of Saturday’s round. The 23-year-old is staying in a separate house for maximum focus.

“Accomplishments big or small, when you see your kids achieve their goals, it’s the most wonderful feeling possible,” his dad says.

Shipley’s father might not know when he’ll speak to Neal next or what words he’ll choose when he does. But he does know what he’ll be doing early Sunday evening: watching his son on TV, as he sits next to Jim Nantz and the new Masters champion in Butler Cabin.

Not bad for a family that didn’t play golf until that one day two decades ago.

(Top photo: Warren Little / Getty Images)

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Gabby Herzig is a Staff Writer for The Athletic covering golf. Before joining The Athletic, she worked as a breaking news writer for Sports Illustrated’s golf vertical and a contributing editor at Golf Digest. She is a graduate of Pomona College, where she captained the varsity women’s golf team.