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46-525: The college was funded by the friends and family of Harvey Seeley Mudd , one of the initial investors in the Cyprus Mines Corporation . Although involved in the planning of the new institution, Mudd died before it opened in 1955. The campus was designed by Edward Durell Stone in a modernist brutalist style. Harvey Mudd College was founded in 1955. Classes began in 1957 with a class of 48 students, 7 faculty and one building–Mildred E. Mudd Hall,

92-579: A " Modernist masterpiece", the result was "layering drab, slab-sided buildings with Beaux-Arts decoration." The official names for the academic buildings of Harvey Mudd College are: The official names for the dormitories of Harvey Mudd College are (listed in order of construction): Until the addition of the Linde and Sontag dorms, Atwood and Case dorms were occasionally referred to as New Dorm and New Dorm II; Mildred E. Mudd Hall and Marks Hall are almost invariably referred to as East Dorm and South Dorm. During

138-593: A degree in mining engineering in 1912. Mudd and his father founded the Cyprus Mines Corporation in 1916. The Los Angeles–based enterprise started with development of the copper mines on the island of Cyprus. In antiquity, Cyprus was a major center for the production of copper, since the second or even third millennium BC. In fact, the Roman name for copper was aes cyprium , from the name of Cyprus in Greek: Κύπρος, which

184-472: A dormitory. Classes and meals took place at Claremont Men's College ( Claremont McKenna College ), and labs in the Baxter Science Building until additional buildings could be built: Jacobs Science Building (1959), Thomas-Garett Hall (1961) and Platt Campus Center (1963). By 1966, the campus had grown to 283 students and 43 faculty. Under the presidency of Maria Klawe as of 2006, Harvey Mudd became

230-523: A leading advocate for women in STEM in higher education. In April 2017, all classes were cancelled for two days in response to tensions on campus over workload, race issues, and mistrust of faculty. Contributing events included the deaths of two Mudd students and a Scripps student that year and the leak of the Wabash Report on teaching, learning, and workload at Mudd. On July 1, 2023, Harriet Nembhard became

276-516: A magazine of arts and ideas. It also publishes Arts & Letters Daily . In 1957, Corbin Gwaltney, founder and editor of the alumni magazine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , joined with editors from magazines of several other colleges and universities for an editorial project to investigate issues in higher education in perspective. The meeting occurred on the day the first Sputnik circled

322-769: A memorial cannon from Fleming House at Caltech (originally from the National Guard ) by dressing as maintenance people and carting it off on a flatbed truck for "cleaning". The students eventually returned the cannon after Caltech threatened to take legal action. In 2006, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) replicated the prank and moved the same cannon to their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Notable Harvey Mudd College alumni include: 34°06′22″N 117°42′33″W  /  34.10608°N 117.70919°W  / 34.10608; -117.70919 Harvey Seeley Mudd Harvey Seeley Mudd (30 August 1888 – 12 April 1955)

368-497: A news publication. He and other board members of EPE met to plan a new publication which would be called The Chronicle of Higher Education . The Chronicle of Higher Education was officially founded in 1966 by Corbin Gwaltney, and its first issue was launched in November 1966. Although it was meant for those involved in higher education, one of the founding ideas was that the general public had very little knowledge about what

414-505: A social impact course. Its most popular majors, by 2023 graduates, were: In 2018, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that in response to student "complaints first to mental-health counsellors and then to outside evaluators," the college was "considering how to ease pressure on students without sacrificing rigour." For the class of 2026, the college received 4,440 applications and admitted 593 applicants (a 13.4% acceptance rate). Of

460-766: Is $ 19.99 million. Mudd died of a heart attack on April 12, 1955, at his home in Beverly Hills, California . He was 66 years old. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Mildred Mudd died three years later at the age of 67. After Mudd's death in 1955, Mildred Mudd supported the founding later that year of the planned undergraduate college of science and engineering college at Claremont, which would be named for him. Mildred and family members contributed $ 2 million to endow Harvey Mudd College , which awards degrees in science and engineering. The degree programs require humanities and social science coursework. Mildred

506-812: Is named for his brother, and the Seeley W. Mudd Laboratory (North Mudd) is named for their father. At the time of Mudd's death, he was chairman of the Board of the Southern California Symphony Association , the Welfare Federation of Los Angeles , and Greater Los Angeles Plans, Inc . He was a trustee and former president of the Southwest Museum , a member of the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , and member of

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552-650: Is read as: Kypros. In later centuries aes cyprium became simply cyprium and then cuprum. This was further transformed and gave the word for copper in European languages, for example copper in English. However, at the time the Mudds began the Cyprus Mines Corp., copper had not been mined on Cyprus for almost 1500 years. With the backing of Colonel Seeley Mudd, geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther searched for new copper on Cyprus, but it

598-581: Is required to read some articles. The Chronicle is based in Washington, D.C. , and is a major news service covering U.S. academia. It is published every weekday online and appears weekly in print except for every other week in May, June, July, and August and the last three weeks in December. In print, The Chronicle is published in two sections: Section A with news, section B with job listings, and The Chronicle Review,

644-512: Is the northernmost HMC inner dorm. The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth dorms built are Atwood, Case, Linde, Sontag, and Drinkware, respectively. They were initially referred to as "the colonies" by some students, a reference to the fact that they were newer and at the farthest end of the campus; these dorms are now more commonly referred to as "the outer dorms", with the four directional dorms referred to as "the inner dorms". The college had initially purchased an apartment building adjacent to

690-621: The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers in 1945. In 1949, the Columbia University Engineering School Alumni Association awarded him its Egleston Medal for distinguished engineering achievement. Mudd became a member of the board of trustees for the California Institute of Technology in 1929. He served on the finance and executive committees and was vice president of

736-912: The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas (CMS). The teams participate in NCAA Division III in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). The mascot for the men's teams is Stanley the Stag, and the women's teams are the Athenas. Their colours are cardinal and gold. According to the Division III Fall Learfield Director's Cup Standings for the 2016-2017 year, CMS ranks 12th among all Division III programs, and first among SCIAC colleges. The other sports combination of

782-493: The 1970s, the Chronicle was attracting enough advertising to become self-sufficient, and in 1978 the board of EPE agreed to sell the newspaper to its editors. EPE sold the Chronicle to the editors for $ 2,000,000 in cash and $ 500,000 in services that Chronicle would provide to EPE. Chronicle went from a legal non-profit status to a for-profit company. This sale shifted the focus of non-profit EPE to K-12 education. Inspired by

828-455: The 237 freshmen who enrolled, the middle 50% of SAT scores reported were 760–790 in mathematics and 720–770 in reading and writing, while the ACT Composite range was 34–36. Harvey Mudd, along with Wake Forest University , long held out as the last four-year colleges or universities in the U.S. to accept only SAT and not ACT test scores for admission. In August 2007, at the beginning of

874-693: The Claremont Colleges, and CMS' primary rival, is the team made up of Pomona College and Pitzer College known as the Pomona–Pitzer Sagehens (PP). This is known to students as the Sixth Street Rivalry. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), another university with strength in the natural sciences and engineering, is located 26 miles (42 km) away from Harvey Mudd College. Mudders occasionally amuse themselves by pranking Caltech. For example, in 1986, students from Mudd stole

920-536: The Earth, October 4, 1957, so the Moonshooter project was formed as a supplement on higher education for the college magazines. The college magazine editors promised 60 percent of one issue of their magazine to finance the supplement. The first Moonshooter Report was 32 pages long and titled American Higher Education, 1958 . They sold 1.35 million copies to 15 colleges and universities. By the project's third year, circulation

966-684: The School of Medicine at the University of Southern California . In 1902, Col. Mudd moved his family to Los Angeles , California, where he worked as a consulting engineer for the Guggenheim Exploration Company. In 1907, he developed the Ray mine in Arizona, which is still in production. Harvey attended Stanford University for two years and then transferred to Columbia University , where he received

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1012-443: The U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service. Money magazine ranked Harvey Mudd 136th out of 744 in its "Best Colleges For Your Money 2019" report. In U.S. News & World Report 's 2021 "America's Best Colleges" report, Harvey Mudd College is tied for the 25th best U.S. liberal arts college, is second among undergraduate engineering schools in

1058-557: The U.S. whose highest degree is a Master's, and is ranked as tied for sixth "Most Innovative School" among 50 liberal arts colleges evaluated. Forbes in 2019 rated it 23rd in its "America's Top Colleges" ranking of 650 military academies, national universities and liberal arts colleges. In 2021, Harvey Mudd's total annual cost of attendance (tuition, fees, and room and board) was $ 82,236. About 70% of freshmen receive financial aid. Athletes from Harvey Mudd compete alongside athletes from Claremont McKenna College and Scripps College as

1104-672: The advisory committee of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery . As Chairman of the Southern California Symphony Association, Mudd is credited with saving the Los Angeles Philharmonic . Fellow copper baron William Andrews Clark Jr. had founded the Philharmonic in 1919, but he had exhausted his fortune supporting the orchestra. To oversee the Philharmonic, the Southern California Symphony Association

1150-532: The application process for the class of 2012, HMC began accepting ACT results, a year after Wake Forest abandoned its former SAT-only policy. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvey Mudd waived the requirement for SAT or ACT scores for the graduating classes of 2021 or 2022. This policy was extended to the classes of 2023 and 2024. The college is need-blind for domestic applicants. Washington Monthly ranked Harvey Mudd fifth in 2020 among 218 liberal arts colleges in

1196-581: The board of trustees. In 1954, Caltech faculty member Linus Pauling , upon winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry, sent Mudd a letter thanking him and the Caltech Board of Trustees for "providing here an atmosphere, second to none in the world, that is favorable to research". Mudd's will left $ 50,000 to Caltech for research on the genesis of ore deposits. Two geology buildings at Caltech are named for family members. The Seeley G. Mudd Building (South Mudd)

1242-592: The company's copper mines on Cyprus had become the island's largest industry, exporting nearly a million tons of copper a year. Mudd's copper mines on Cyprus supported 2,000 of the island's inhabitants and provided more than 25 percent of the island's entire annual revenue. Cyprus Mines paid its employees 15–20 percent above the island average. The company ran an up-to-date, 65-bed hospital for its employees, built scores of low-cost houses for them to live in, and helped to run schools, sports clubs, welfare centers, and summer camps for their families. Mudd served as president of

1288-484: The construction of Case Dorm some students decided as a prank to move all of the survey stakes exactly six inches in one direction. "East" was the first dorm, but it wasn't until "West" was built west of it that it was actually referred to as "East". Then, "North" was built, directly north of "East". When the fourth dorm, Marks Hall, was built, there was one corner of the quad available (the northwest) and one directional name, "South", remaining. To this day, "South" dorm

1334-534: The increasingly predictable political divide." The New Republic , The Nation , Reason , and The American Prospect were among the finalists in the category. In 2012, reporter Jack Stripling won a special citation for "Beat reporting", from the Education Writers Association (EWA), as well as sharing a second-place Single-Topic News, Series or Feature award with Tom Bartlett and other Chronicle reporters for their seven-part series, "College for

1380-572: The model established by the Chronicle , and with the support of the Carnegie Corporation and other philanthropies, EPE founded Education Week in September 1981. In 1993, the Chronicle was one of the first newspapers to appear on the Internet, as a Gopher service. The Chronicle grossed $ 33 million in advertising revenues and $ 7 million in circulation revenues in 2003. Over the years,

1426-578: The national fraternity for men in music, in 1941. Mudd had a particular interest in The Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California . He served as chairman of the Board of Fellows of Claremont College, now The Claremont Graduate University and University Center, for a quarter of a century. Harvey Mudd helped in the founding of Claremont McKenna College in 1945. He helped to plan Claremont's new undergraduate college of science and engineering that

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1472-703: The newer dorms to house additional students, but it was demolished to make room for Sontag. Since any HMC student, regardless of class year, can live in any of the dormitories, several of the dorms have accumulated long-standing traditions and so-called "personalities". HMC offers four-year degrees in chemistry , mathematics , physics , computer science , biology , and engineering , interdisciplinary degrees in mathematical and computational biology, and joint majors in computer science and mathematics; computer science and physics; physics and mathematics; and biology and chemistry. Students may also elect an Individual Program of Study (IPS) or an off-campus major offered by any of

1518-405: The other Claremont Colleges, provided one also completes a minor in one of the technical fields that Harvey Mudd offers as a major. All HMC students are required to take the college's Common Core Curriculum, typically throughout their freshman and sophomore years. This includes courses in computer science, engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, writing, a critical inquiry course, and

1564-744: The paper has been a finalist and winner of several journalism awards. In 2005, two special reports – on diploma mills and plagiarism – were selected as finalists in the reporting category for a National Magazine Award . It was a finalist for the award in general excellence every year from 2001 to 2005. In 2005, its reporter Carlin Romano was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in criticism. In 2007, The Chronicle won an Utne Reader Independent Press Award for political coverage. In its award citation, Utne called The Chronicle Review "a fearless, free-thinking section where academia's best and brightest can take their gloves off and swing with abandon at both sides of

1610-547: The sixth President of Harvey Mudd College. The original buildings of the campus, designed by Edward Durell Stone and completed in 1959, feature "knobbly concrete squares that students of Harvey Mudd affectionately call "warts" and use as hooks for skateboards." The school's unofficial mascot "Wally the Wart" is an anthropomorphic concrete wart. In 2013, Travel and Leisure named the college as one of "America's ugliest college campuses" and noted that while Stone regarded his design as

1656-622: Was Norman F. Sprague Jr. (1914–1997), a medical doctor. Henry succeeded his father as head of the Cyprus Mines Corporation. In her youth, Mildred attended the Veltin School for Girls in Manhattan , New York. When she became an adult, she was a social welfare leader. She became involved with the Girl Scouts in 1934 at the recommendation of Lou Henry Hoover , the wife of former U.S. President Herbert Hoover . For three years, beginning in 1934, she

1702-407: Was a mining engineer and founder, investor, and president of Cyprus Mines Corporation , a Los Angeles–based international enterprise that operated copper mines on the island of Cyprus . Mudd was vice president of the board of trustees for the California Institute of Technology . He helped found Claremont McKenna College . The science and engineering college Harvey Mudd College at Claremont

1748-418: Was chartered in 1955, shortly after his death. He was also chairman of the Board of Fellows of Claremont College . Mudd married Mildred Esterbrook (February 21, 1891 – August 23, 1958), the daughter of Mary Nichols and Richard Esterbrook (grandson of Richard Esterbrook (1813-1895)), on March 12, 1913. They had two children: Henry T. Mudd (1913–1990) and Caryll Mudd Sprague (1914–1978). Caryll's husband

1794-536: Was created in 1933 with Mudd as chairman. Mudd personally guaranteed the salary of conductor Otto Klemperer . Mudd led fundraising efforts to enable the Philharmonic to continue performing through the Great Depression . Mudd is also credited with starting the Philharmonic's tradition of taking the stuffiness out of high culture. He was initiated as an honorary member of the Beta Psi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia ,

1840-542: Was designed for Charles Boldt, owner of the Ohio-based Boldt Glass Co. that produced the popular Mason jars, by architect Elmer Grey in 1922. The residence is on an acre of land with seven bedrooms and a swimming pool. In 2008, the house was listed for sale at a price of $ 11.495 million. The historic property is known as the Harvey Mudd Estate. As of October 2013, this house is for sale again, asking price

1886-407: Was elected as the first chairman of the board of trustees of the college, serving from 1955 until 1958. The Chronicle of Higher Education The Chronicle of Higher Education is an American newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and student affairs professionals, including staff members and administrators. A subscription

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1932-540: Was going on in higher education and the real issues involved. Originally, it did not accept any advertising and did not have any staff-written editorial opinions. It was supported by grants from the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation . Later on in its history, advertising would be accepted, especially for jobs in higher education, and this would allow the newspaper to be financially independent. By

1978-518: Was named in memory of him. Mudd was chair of local symphony organizations and art museums. Harvey Mudd was born in Leadville, Colorado , in 1888 to Colonel Seeley W. Mudd, the manager of the Small Hopes silver mine, and Della Mulock Mudd. Harvey had a younger brother, Seeley (1895–1968), who was a physician and cancer researcher at the California Institute of Technology and then professor and dean at

2024-595: Was over three million for the supplement. In 1959, Gwaltney left Johns Hopkins Magazine to become the first full-time employee of the newly created Editorial Projects for Education (EPE), which was later renamed "Editorial Projects in Education", starting in an office in his apartment in Baltimore and later moving to an office near the Johns Hopkins campus in Baltimore. He realized that higher education would benefit from

2070-907: Was the Los Angeles County Council commissioner of the Girl Scouts. Between 1934 and 1939, Mildred was able to double the enrollment in Los Angeles. She served as the national president of the Girl Scouts by 1938 and from 1939 to 1941. She had been the director of the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles by 1938. In 1939, Time magazine described her as "Tall, dark, [and] slender" and as "a typical society matron, noted for her large and lavish parties, her charitable activities, [and] her ancient Roman jewelry (dug up in Cyprus)". Mudd lived in Beverly Hills on Benedict Canyon Drive. The Tudor style residence

2116-575: Was twenty years before Cyprus Mines paid its first dividends in 1936. In 1918, Mudd became president of Cyprus Mines Corporation. Mudd became chairman of Cyprus Mines in 1926 when his father died. As head of Cyprus Mines, Harvey Mudd developed and managed copper mines in the Mediterranean, as well as an iron mine in Peru and oil properties in the United States. At the time of Harvey Mudd's death in 1955,

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