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University of Chicago cultural theorist C. Riley Snorton has been named Occidental College’s 2020 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence.
In 1965, as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, Occidental College signed up for a new program called Upward Bound created to see if low-income high school students “can profit from a real chance at a higher education,” as one federal official put it.
Former U.S. Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona will discuss the current state of conservatism and partisan politics with former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods ’76 on February 5 as Occidental College’s 2020 Jack Kemp ’57 Distinguished Lecturer.
Occidental College professors Peter Dreier and Mijin Cha will discuss and sign copies of their new anthology, We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism – American Style (New Press) at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena on Thursday, January 23 at 7 p.m.
Five years ago during the West African Ebola epidemic, Occidental Professor Mary Beth Heffernan read first-person accounts from patients who were terrified by the anonymous head-to-toe personal protection (PPE) suits worn by their caregivers.
Los Angeles visual artist Shizu Saldamando’s newest solo exhibition, “Shizu Saldamando: L.A.
Look back on the past year through the lens of Occidental College photographer Marc Campos.
Highlighting the exceptional scholarship, achievement and service taking place throughout the year at Oxy, here are our five most-viewed news stories.
From kicking off Oxy’s Campaign for Good to the 20th anniversary of the Undergraduate Research Center, five of our best videos from 2019 tell the Oxy story through visuals.
From the exhilaration of commencement to creative fun in the Marketplace, here are some of our favorite Instagram moments from 2019.
