Welcome Back to Campus

Dear CMC Campus Community:

Welcome back! We so look forward to reconnecting this week and throughout the spring semester.

As you all know, it has been an extremely trying month for many who call the Los Angeles area home. Our thoughts are with everyone who has experienced the direct and indirect impacts of the wildfires. Please continue to reach out to members of our leadership team—Dianna Graves and Jimmy Doan for students, Nyree Gray for faculty and staff—as we all stand ready to support each of you.

We have much to look forward to in the months ahead. My State of the College address, shared before the holidays, illustrated CMC’s new heights of opportunity, excellence, and recognition in 2024. The momentum builds this semester.

Our liberal arts curriculum and experiential programs soar. From the brilliance of our faculty and the foundational depth of the philosophical questions we pose and answer. To cutting edge work on language and culture. From engagement on the foreign policy and international relations questions of our time. To hosting the largest conference in the world on lessons of the Holocaust and the Gould Center’s Humanities Labs’ national award from the American Philosophical Association for outstanding academic design.

Our leadership programs also take a major leap forward. In our role with the new Carnegie designation for institutions dedicated to leadership for a public purpose, CMC and the Kravis Leadership Institute will host the inaugural group of 25 recipients from March 7-8, at the 30th Kravis-de Roulet Conference.

The Athenaeum, our home for deep learning, listening, and constructive dialogue, offers another powerful set of programs. Please join us on January 27 for our annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day commemorative lecture with guest speaker Dr. Lerone A. Martin, a professor of religious studies and African American history and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.

Our top ten CMS athletes continue to crush it, with winter off to a strong start after an impressive fall season. In particular, several of our athletes earned All-America and Academic All-America honors after thrilling postseason runs by our men’s and women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, and men’s and women’s cross-country teams.

Looking ahead on the calendar, we are excited to welcome our extended CMC community during Family Weekend from February 15-17.

We eagerly await this summer’s opening of CMC’s newest architectural crown jewel, the Robert Day Sciences Center—home of our revolutionary Kravis Department of Integrated Sciences. Please save the date for September 26, 2025, as our expected grand opening of the RDSC to the public.

We are also working on community celebrations for our 50 Years of Co-Education and the Roberts Campus Sports Bowl, which is already making significant progress in the early phase of construction.

Most importantly, we look forward to seeing each of you on campus this week.

Have a wonderful first day of classes. So great to have you back.

Very best,

Hiram