Claremont Graduate University

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Claremont Graduate University
Motto: multa lumina, una lux
Established 1925
Type: Private
President: Robert Klitgaard
Faculty: 81 full time, 88 part time
Students: 2033 graduate students
Location Claremont, California, USA
Campus: Suburban, 19 acres
Website: www.cgu.edu

Claremont Graduate University (formerly The Claremont Graduate School) was founded in 1925 in the city of Claremont, California. It is one of two graduate institutions in the prestigious Claremont Colleges consortium, the other being the Keck Graduate Institute.

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Claremont Graduate University prepares a diverse group of outstanding individuals to assume leadership roles in the worldwide community through research, teaching, and practice in selected fields.

The university’s 19 acre, tree-lined campus is located in Claremont, California (pop. 34,000) within Los Angeles County (pop. 9.95 million). Claremont Graduate University, also know as CGU, is a member of the Claremont Colleges, seven schools of higher education located in Claremont. These include five undergraduate institutions, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, Scripps College, and two graduate, Claremont Graduate University and the Keck Graduate Institute.

The Claremont Colleges were designed to incorporate the Oxford Model of higher education. Instead of one large university composed of several separate schools, the Claremont Colleges are made up of different institutions designed around differing theories of pedagogy. Claremont Graduate University was founded upon the principle that graduate education is separate and distinct from undergraduate education. Students discover and cultivate their disciplines during undergraduate course work; at CGU students continue cultivation of their own disciplines, but are also expected to augment this with research that incorporates other disciplines as well. This is called transdisciplinarity, and is an essential component of Claremont Graduate University’s functioning theory of pedagogy.

The school is home to over 2,000 masters and PhD students, as well as approximately 170 full and part-time faculty members. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has classified Claremont Graduate University as a Comprehensive Doctoral/no medical or veterinary. Their eight academic schools and one independent department award master's and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines. Enrollment is limited and classes are small.

The Paul Gray PC Museum is a computer museum at Claremont Graduate University. It is named in honor of Paul Gray, a former professor at the university, and is located in the School of Information Systems and Technology. As of November 12, 2005 the museum is showing the "Best PCs Ever" [1], based on the article "The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time" [2] published by PC World.

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management is one of the many schools under Claremont Graduate University. Named after management guru Peter F. Drucker, the school bases its curriculum around the teachings and philosophies of Drucker on practices of business and management.

"Reflecting the Drucker philosophy of management, we believe that management is a human enterprise—an art as well as a science—that integrates perspectives from the social and behavioral sciences, from philosophy and the humanities, from history and technology, and from religion and mathematics.

This liberal art of management brings together the complex realities of the world in which we live, our diverse cultural, institutional, and intellectual backgrounds, and our ethical responsibilities.

The intuitive and scientific understanding of these linkages is essential to anticipating and meeting the challenge of change and renewal, and for seeing things both as they are and as they can be.

We believe outstanding executive leadership is a moral endeavor requiring both character and competence - moral courage as well as analytical insight. Effective leaders make a difference in the lives and institutions they touch by infusing them with high values and bringing definition to common purpose, commitment to strategy, dignity to human interaction, and increased opportunity for creative self-expression."

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