The Inequality and Policy Research Center (IPRC) is an initiative of the Institute for Democratic Renewal. IPRC supports the scientific analysis of political, health, socioeconomic, and group-specific inequality in the United States and abroad. We develop evidence-based policy and program solutions to problems related to inequality.

The annual Pat Reif Memorial Lectureship was created in 2002 in honor of Patricia A. Reif, IHM, PhD. A scholar, educator, and activist, Reif taught philosophy and chaired the graduate department in religious studies at Immaculate Heart College. In 1984 she founded the MA program in feminist spirituality at Immaculate Heart College Center. Active in many social justice issues, including domestic abuse, poverty, immigration, welfare rights, and the anti-nuclear movement, Reif co-founded the...

For many years, specimens from Paul Gray’s collection of early computers have been a familiar sight in CGU's Academic Computing Building. Kiera Peacock decided to take her passion for museum work and apply it to refreshing the exhibit—and giving greater attention to the work of a man who touched so many lives on campus and off.

Feka Parchibell of Cameroon, Central Africa, participated in the Teaching Excellence & Achievement (TEA) Program hosted by Claremont Graduate University’s School of Educational Studies in Fall 2015.

Native Americans on remote reservations won improved access to the ballot box due in part to the work of a team of researchers from Claremont Graduate University. Jean Schroedel, a professor in CGU’s Division of Politics and Economics and a leading expert on Native American voter suppression, lead a team of students to South Dakota and Nevada to gather data that was later used by Native American rights organization Four Directions in a legal struggle to place early voting stations on...

Poet Dawn Lundy Martin is the winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her book Good Stock Strange Blood, which experiments with language as it explores the meaning of identity, the body, and the burdens of history along with one’s own private traumas.

A cornerstone of strong communities are strong schools, and a cornerstone of strong schools are educational leaders who have the passion, commitment, and skills needed to promote educational equity and excellence among diverse groups of students. These are the educators CGU selects for our Urban Leadership (UL) program.

The School of Community & Global Health (SCGH) is catalyzing a new vision of how humankind conceptualizes and promotes health that extends far beyond the scope of traditional paradigms.

The Drucker Signature Platform, based on the life work and key principles of Peter Drucker, trains you to be an effective leader. In our professional and leadership practicums, you will examine industries, organizations, and jobs in conjunction with Drucker alumni, faculty, and staff to prepare you to take your career to the next level.

The CGU Art Department mounted an exhibition exploring the program’s history through its alumni in the context of installation.

Our 92nd Commencement ceremonies were held on Saturday, May 18th.

The Presidential Installation of Len Jessup, Twelfth President of Claremont Graduate University.

Winner of the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her book Bestiary, Donika Kelly sat down with us to discuss the craft of writing and how poetry provides a tool for exploring her own life.

Ready to get your hands dirty? The Museum Studies concentration at CGU merges theory and practice with the ever-changing field of museums, exhibitions, and sites of public memory. At CGU, students work with museum professionals in the classroom and in the field to acquire the skills necessary to meet the challenges confronting arts and cultural organizations today.

The 12th president of Claremont Graduate University describes his early impressions of CGU and Claremont, his move into the President’s House with First Lady Kristi Staab, and his exciting vision of the university’s future.

CGU PhD candidate Heather Huffman sat down to talk with us about her background in small family business, and her research into entrepreneurship and small business ecosystems.

Ashleigh Brilliant ranks alongside Mark Twain as one of the most prolific and popular writers of epigrams in the history of American letters. Brilliant began distributing short witticisms on colorful postcards when he lived in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s. A longtime resident of Santa Barbara, Brilliant sat down with us to discuss his work and his time studying education at Claremont Graduate University in the 1950s. He even sang a few tunes from his own...

The International Scholars Program at CGU is not your typical language program. We offer a coordinated suite of up to nine (9) courses that deepen international, multilingual students’ knowledge of academic discourse by preparing them to speak, write, and exchange information and ideas across a range of general-academic as well as discipline-specific genres and formats.

A poet whose collection Incendiary Art explores tragedy and grief in black communities across America, Smith spoke with us in the CGU Tufts Poetry Award library about the role poets have in delivering the real news.

On August 10th 2017, legendary gallery owner and sculptor Barbara Beretich (MFA '65) sat down with us in Galleria Beretich in Claremont, California to talk about her time as a graduate art student at Claremont Graduate University and how she later became one of California's most successful modern art dealers.

Former CGU associate professor Enrique Martínez Celaya (1994-2003) reflects on his decision to leave a career in physics for art, his time teaching in Claremont, and the importance of looking within for creative expression. http://www.martinezcelaya.com/ Music: "Deluge" and "Mountains" by Cellophane Sam https://cellophanesam.com/ http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cellophane_Sam/ Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ...

CGU CISAT PhD candidate Vivian Sultan describes her research in smart grid reliability, and how she uses Geographic Information Systems to identify ways to mitigate America’s electric grid traffic congestion problems.

Anthony Page and Daniel Vesely, co-founders of Voxx Analytics, met while earning their MBAs from the Drucker School of Management and found inspiration in Peter Drucker’s teachings about the importance of organizing “information about the outside.” They have worked together for over 10 years developing the technologies that are now the basis for Voxx Analytics. Their mission is to organize and analyze all influence-related information to empower decision-makers. For more than 90 years,...