Dear CMC Community:
Welcome to day one of this momentous academic year.
On behalf of our entire community, I want to thank each and every one of you for your shared commitment to persevere through these challenging times. Our world-class professors have reimagined their classes with innovations and projects that students can design, complete, and share remotely. Our dedicated staff have adapted effectively to every operational challenge, and built on the legacy contributions of our graduating seniors to create vibrant programming for close, personal engagement. The tireless work, rigorous planning, and imaginative solutions that got us here will continue to inspire and guide us all.
We are thrilled now to share that spirit with the newest members of our community: our exceptional group of 317 first-year and 21 transfer students and their families who join us from 30 states and 22 countries, as well as several outstanding a new faculty members and coaches.
As we enter a new academic year, we also take a moment to celebrate our recent accomplishments, including prestigious fellowships and grants; the competitive success of our students, including Model UN and CMS Athletics; and our nationally recognized opportunity strategy. Just this past summer, we provided a record 526 students with funding support under the Soll Center for Student Opportunity’s sponsored internship and experiences program.
This year, we will continue to pursue our strongest priorities under The CMC Strategy: the reinforcement of our mission; the integration of sciences and computation; and the expansion of student opportunity. We will draw on our commitments to the core educational values of free inquiry and equal opportunity through CMC’s rigorous liberal arts curriculum, our institutes, centers, and labs, the Open Academy, and the Presidential Initiative on Anti-Racism and the Black Experience in America.
We will formally kick off the 2020-2021 academic year and capture this extraordinary moment in our College’s story at CMC Convocation at 4 p.m. (PDT), this Friday, August 28. We will recognize important milestones of leadership and service, and learn from our keynote speaker, George Thomas, the Burnet C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions. Please be sure to join us.
Take great care and stay healthy and in close touch.
Congratulations again!
All very best,
Hiram