Claremont Graduate University

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Claremont Graduate University, located in Claremont, California, is an all-graduate research university established in 1925. CGU is one of the Claremont Colleges, a consortium of seven independent higher education institutions made up of five undergraduate and two graduate schools. Each of the Claremont Colleges centers around a different theory of learning. CGU’s foundation is Transdisciplinary Studies: conducting research that crosses the boundaries of different disciplines in order to achieve a well-rounded, holistic, practical view of the subject at hand.

On Campus

CGU is the site of the Paul Gray PC Museum, a collection of more than 100 computers, 25 printers, and 40 monitors dating back to the first years of personal computers. The university is also home to the Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards. The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is a yearly prize of $100,000 given for a poetry volume published the preceding year and is the largest monetary prize in the U.S. for a single collection of poetry. The Kate Tufts Discovery Award is a yearly prize of $10,000 granted to a poet who published his or her first collection of verse the previous year.

Notable Faculty and Alumni

Notable CGU faculty include Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles and psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who created the idea of flow. Notable alumni include Kenneth J. Hagan, naval historian; Donald Yacovone, research manager of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute; Rajiv Dutta, President of Skype and PayPal; Ashleigh Brilliant, syndicated cartoonist; and Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine and monthly columnist for Scientific American magazine.