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Equity is a process rooted in community, collective care and enacting change, and we strive to be a national leader among liberal arts colleges.New Issue of Occidental Magazine
Kristina Kvien ’87 reflects on Ukraine, Oxy's music curriculum gets a remix, Broderick Fox explores Manscaping, first impressions of the Class of ’26 and more.
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You’ll apply knowledge from multiple disciplines for the promotion of human health, giving due consideration to basic principles of human rights and a wide range of cultural perspectives.
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100%
demonstrated financial need met
15%
international/dual citizen students
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Whether in the lab, classroom, field or community, our faculty, students and alumni define the strengths and uniqueness of Oxy in everything that they do.
Student
Gavin Griswold ’23 is a third-generation Oxy student who looks forward to working internationally with a purpose after graduation. Oxy is helping him pave that path.
Gavin Griswold
Diplomacy & World Affairs | Class of 2023
Faculty
Meet Katarzyna Marciniak of Media Arts & Culture, who focuses on the aesthetics and politics of transnational visual cultures, particularly on representations of foreignness, immigration, national (un)belonging, and the construction of border zones as sites of contention.
Katarzyna Marciniak
Media Arts & Culture
Alumni
Richard empowers high school students in his Los Angeles community through storytelling, providing them with the tools to tell their own stories through his nonprofit PLUS ME, which was spotlighted at this year’s Super Bowl.
Richard Reyes ’12
Critical Theory & Social Justice | Class of 2012
Student
After building a career in information technology on the East Coast, veteran Lisa Cronican ’22 returned to Los Angeles to fulfill a lifelong goal: completing her Oxy bachelor’s degree after a 25-year hiatus.
Lisa Cronican
Politics | Class of 2022
Faculty
Meet Sharla Fett of American Studies (chair), history and Black Studies, who works in the fields of 19th-century Atlantic World slavery, the antebellum U.S. South, and race, gender and health.
Sharla Fett
American Studies, History, Black Studies
Alumni
Apple vice president of marketing communications Tor Myhren thinks he has “the best job in the world.”
Tor Myhren ’94
English | Class of 1994
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