IDEAS at the Claremont Colleges

08/31/2021

!! ATTENTION IDEAS COMMUNITY !!

TODAY, August 31st from 5-6pm, we are hosting ANOTHER information session for ~NEW~ volunteers interested in becoming PAYS College Advisors and/or PAYS Tutors!

Please refer to the information below and the attached flyer!

We hope to see YOU later today!

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Calling for Pomona College VOLUNTEERS for PAYS College Advisors and PAYS Tutors for the academic year! Unfortunately, at the moment we are only able to recruit Pomona College students. We hope to have further updates in early September about opening this volunteer opportunity to 5C students!
--> PAYS College Advisors get paired with a PAYS scholar and help them navigate the college application process!
Apply: bit.ly/PAYSCollegeAdvisor21-22
--> PAYS Tutors help high school PAYS scholars in different subjects ranging from Chemistry, History, Physics, English, etc.
Apply: bit.ly/PAYSTutor21-22
Please submit an application by September 6th!
If you are interested in applying, NEW volunteers MUST attend an info session via Zoom.
-Tuesday, August 31 at 5:00PM
-Tuesday, September 7 at 5:00PM
(link: https://pomonacollege.zoom.us/j/81181761570)
-Thursday, September 2 at 6:00PM
-Thursday, September 9 at 6:00PM
(link: https://pomonacollege.zoom.us/j/89048933240)
Feel free to contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns!

10/08/2019

Follow us on our NEW Instagram account!

10/08/2019

IDEAS is co-sponsoring the Immigrant Rights Coalition in Claremont (IRC) collective on their first event (Immigrant Right Coalition (IRC) in Claremont: First Meeting) of the semester! Show up in solidarity with our compañerxs!

04/05/2019

Hello community,
In solidarity with the international students on Pomona's campus we want to share the following petition. We ask that you sign and help spread the petition. Thank you.

Last year, and the years prior, Pomona College hoisted the flags of all countries represented in its graduating class. This year, due to alleged costs associated and management problems, ONLY the United States flag will be present at graduation. Although we recognize that flags, and by extension nat...

03/08/2019

Dear Community,

A couple of days ago, we shared a GoFundMe page for Damaris. Her scholarship has yet to be reinstated, and we now urge you to sign this call-to-action to continue to pressure Pitzer and to bring attention to this injustice. Please sign in solidarity with Damaris and the rest of the undocumented/DACAmented community at the 7Cs. We also ask that you circulate this to your networks.

We are writing as concerned students in solidarity with Damaris Esquivel, a DACAmented student at Pitzer College who was admitted as a full scholarship recipient. We are outraged at Pitzer College’s decision to effectively terminate Damaris’ scholarship, consequently barring her from completing ...

03/06/2019

Hello community.

Please join us in supporting Damaris, a first-generation college student who is a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program and a current senior at Pitzer College. Any funds received will go towards Damaris’ tuition at Pitzer, and for books and incidentals. Any additional money raised over the $45,000 will go towards building a new scholarship program for students who show promise in academics, and are financially unable to pay for their academics due to their DACA status, or immigration status.

Please share with friends and family.

As the recipient of the 2018 Young Alumni Achievment Award for Pitzer College, I implore you to help me send Damaris Esquivel to Pitzer College for her final, senior year at the college. I had the privilege of meeting Damaris in January 2018, and was immediately impressed with her willingness to...

02/05/2019

Hello folks! Join the CLS Department for these events on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week!! See y'all there!

11/12/2018

CHECK THIS OUT!!

Rafa Solorzano is a social movements historian and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chicana/Chicano Studies at UCLA. His research focuses on undocumented/undocuqueer student organizing. Join us this week as he discusses the "Trail of Dreams"—the 2010 protest involving four undocumented students and their 1,500 mile march from Miami to Washington D.C.

NOTES FROM THE TRAIL OF DREAMS:
UNDOCUQUEER ORGANIZING IN THE U.S. SOUTH
Thursday, November 15 at 4:15p.m.
Edmunds Hall, room 101