Occidental College

1810

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1887

Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910.

The cornerstone of the school's first building was laid in September 1887 in the Boyle Heights now East Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Founders Day is celebrated annually at the school on April 20, the day in 1887 when Occidental's incorporation papers were officially signed by the California Secretary of State. For the first three years at Occidental, all students are guaranteed housing on campus and for seniors it is optional.

1893

It has been published continuously since 1893.

1894

In addition the college has a dance team that also performs at every home football and basketball game. Occidental athletics date back to 1894, when the College helped organize the first intercollegiate athletic competition in Southern California.

1896

The college's first term began a year later with 27 male and 13 female students, and tuition of $50 a year. In 1896, the Boyle Heights building was destroyed by fire.

1898

Vincent's College campus on Hill Street before a new site was selected in Highland Park in 1898.

1908

Occidental President Remsen Bird worked behind the scenes to help Oxy students of Japanese descent continue their education despite mandatory evacuation orders; his letters are included in the Japanese American Relocation Collection in Clapp Library. After having its first Rhodes Scholar, Clarence Spaulding, named in 1908, Oxy seniors John Paden and Aaron Segal were awarded Rhodes Scholarships in 1958; the first and only time Occidental has produced two Rhodes Scholars in a single year.

The average class size is 18 students and most students take four classes per semester. === Rankings === Since 1908, Occidental has graduated 10 Rhodes Scholars.

1909

The Highland Park site was also bisected by the tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad, and was the site of two presidential visits, first by William Howard Taft in 1909 and subsequently by Theodore Roosevelt in 1911. In 1909, the Pomona College Board of Trustees suggested a merger between Pomona and Occidental, but the proposal came to nothing.

1910

Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910.

1911

The Highland Park site was also bisected by the tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad, and was the site of two presidential visits, first by William Howard Taft in 1909 and subsequently by Theodore Roosevelt in 1911. In 1909, the Pomona College Board of Trustees suggested a merger between Pomona and Occidental, but the proposal came to nothing.

Elam, Jr., formerly vice provost for undergraduate education at Stanford University and renowned for diversity and inclusion initiatives in liberal arts curricula, became Occidental's 16th president. ==Campus== Architect Myron Hunt created the original campus master plan for Occidental's Eagle Rock campus in 1911.

1912

The small size of the campus and the disruption caused by frequent freight trains pushed the college's trustees to find a new location. ===1900s=== In 1912, the school began construction of a new campus located in Los Angeles' Eagle Rock neighborhood.

1913

However, students and faculty protested, and the idea was abandoned. In 1913, the Occidental College Board of Trustees announced plans to convert the college exclusively to a men's school.

1914

Washington came to visit Occidental, on March 27, 1914, Swan, Fowler, and Johnson Halls were dedicated at its new Eagle Rock campus.

1915

These include the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute (UEPI), the Office of Community Engagement (OCE), the Center for Community Based Learning (CCBL), the Neighborhood Partnership Program (NPP), and Upward Bound. ==Athletics== Occidental is one of the five schools that founded the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) in 1915 and is currently a member of the SCIAC and NCAA Division III.

1916

Patterson Field, today one of the oldest collegiate sports stadiums in Los Angeles, was opened in 1916.

1917

In April 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I, the college formed a Students Army Training Corps to aid the war effort. Under Occidental President Remsen Bird, the school opened a series of new Hunt-designed buildings, including Clapp Library (1924), Hillside Theatre and a women's dormitory (Orr Hall) in 1925, Alumni Gymnasium (1926), the Freeman Student Union (1928) and a music and speech building (1929).

1925

In April 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I, the college formed a Students Army Training Corps to aid the war effort. Under Occidental President Remsen Bird, the school opened a series of new Hunt-designed buildings, including Clapp Library (1924), Hillside Theatre and a women's dormitory (Orr Hall) in 1925, Alumni Gymnasium (1926), the Freeman Student Union (1928) and a music and speech building (1929).

1926

The Delta of California chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established at Occidental in 1926, at a time when the only other chapters in California were at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Pomona. English novelist Aldous Huxley, who spoke at Occidental's convocation ceremony in the then-new Thorne Hall in 1938, lampooned President Remsen Bird as Dr.

1930

The campus landscape was designed and developed by Beatrix Farrand in the late 1930s.

1935

Since then, Oxy has produced more than a dozen Olympians, world-record holders, and national champions, including 1935 national girls' tennis champion Pat Henry Yeomans '38, two-time diving gold medalist Sammy Lee '43, and pole vault silver medalist Bob Gutowski '57. Occidental has long-standing football rivalries with Pomona College and Whittier College; the Tigers have played both the Sagehens and the Poets over 100 times.

1938

The Delta of California chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established at Occidental in 1926, at a time when the only other chapters in California were at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Pomona. English novelist Aldous Huxley, who spoke at Occidental's convocation ceremony in the then-new Thorne Hall in 1938, lampooned President Remsen Bird as Dr.

1939

Herbert Mulge of Tarzana College in his 1939 novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.

1943

In July 1943, the U.S.

1945

Navy established a Navy V-12 officer training program on campus that produced hundreds of graduates before it was disbanded in 1945 at the end of the war.

1958

Occidental President Remsen Bird worked behind the scenes to help Oxy students of Japanese descent continue their education despite mandatory evacuation orders; his letters are included in the Japanese American Relocation Collection in Clapp Library. After having its first Rhodes Scholar, Clarence Spaulding, named in 1908, Oxy seniors John Paden and Aaron Segal were awarded Rhodes Scholarships in 1958; the first and only time Occidental has produced two Rhodes Scholars in a single year.

1960

The fountain is a campus landmark and was featured prominently in the 1984 film The Search for Spock. The campus is also noted for its outdoor Remsen Bird Amphitheater, also called the Remsen Bird Hillside Theatre, where between 1960 and 1996, a season of summer plays were performed, including Shakespeare plays and musicals.

As of the 2019–20 school year, The Occidental publishes biweekly in print and weekly online. KOXY is a student-run campus radio station, in operation in the 1960s and 1970s, and again since 2000.

1966

Occidental launched one of the country's first Upward Bound programs in 1966, aimed at increasing the number of low-income, underrepresented high school students who become the first in their family to go to college. Also in 1969, the school opened its first two co-ed dormitories, and two more followed a year later.

1968

It originally operated on the frequency 104.7 in and around campus from 1968 to 2009, but switched to only being available by webstream in 2009.

1969

Rhodes scholars Aaron Segal and John Paden were among the 10 Occidental students who participated in Crossroads Africa that year, a forerunner to the Peace Corps that later became a national program. In 1969, 42 students were suspended for peacefully protesting military recruiting on campus.

Occidental launched one of the country's first Upward Bound programs in 1966, aimed at increasing the number of low-income, underrepresented high school students who become the first in their family to go to college. Also in 1969, the school opened its first two co-ed dormitories, and two more followed a year later.

1970

As of the 2019–20 school year, The Occidental publishes biweekly in print and weekly online. KOXY is a student-run campus radio station, in operation in the 1960s and 1970s, and again since 2000.

1979

In 1979, Occidental installed Water Forms II, a kinetic fountain designed by professor George Baker.

1982

In 1982, the Occidental College football team had the rare opportunity for national prominence when, due to the 1982 National Football League strike, their game with San Diego was broadcast on national television.

1984

The fountain is a campus landmark and was featured prominently in the 1984 film The Search for Spock. The campus is also noted for its outdoor Remsen Bird Amphitheater, also called the Remsen Bird Hillside Theatre, where between 1960 and 1996, a season of summer plays were performed, including Shakespeare plays and musicals.

1988

In 1988, John Brooks Slaughter, formerly Chancellor of the University of Maryland, became Occidental's first black president.

1989

Since 1996 the Occidental Children's Theater has instead performed there each summer. In 1989, the college dedicated Keck Theater, a post-modern theater with a movable stage and seating arrangements for a variety of different types of shows.

The James Barrie version of the play Peter Pan was the first show performed at the opening ceremony in the summer of 1989. Occidental College was ranked as the sixth "Most Beautiful" campus by Newsweek in 2012.

1990

Also, Slaughter led the college's community outreach expansion with the creation of the Center for Volunteerism and Community Service, the predecessor for the current Center for Community Based Learning. In November 1990, the college, initially established as a Presbyterian institution but is no longer religiously affiliated, rededicated the campus' main chapel as the Herrick Memorial Chapel and Interfaith Center.

1996

The fountain is a campus landmark and was featured prominently in the 1984 film The Search for Spock. The campus is also noted for its outdoor Remsen Bird Amphitheater, also called the Remsen Bird Hillside Theatre, where between 1960 and 1996, a season of summer plays were performed, including Shakespeare plays and musicals.

Since 1996 the Occidental Children's Theater has instead performed there each summer. In 1989, the college dedicated Keck Theater, a post-modern theater with a movable stage and seating arrangements for a variety of different types of shows.

2000

As of the 2019–20 school year, The Occidental publishes biweekly in print and weekly online. KOXY is a student-run campus radio station, in operation in the 1960s and 1970s, and again since 2000.

2003

Some buildings, such as the Hameetman Science Center (designed by Anshen + Allen, 2003), deviates from the original architecture with its large glass windows and metal balconies (its lobby houses a large Foucault pendulum).

2006

The school also took down the crosses in the chapel in an attempt to "broaden Occidental's appeal among non-Christian students". ===2000s=== In July 2006, Susan Westerberg Prager became Occidental's first female president.

Approximately 25 percent of the student body participates in a varsity sports program. During the 2006–2007 athletic season, the Tigers cross country, American football and basketball teams were Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champions.

2007

She left her position in 2007 during the fall term.

2009

In July 2009, Jonathan Veitch, formerly dean of The New School's Eugene Lang College, became Occidental's 15th president and the first to be a native Angeleno. The college received some national scrutiny in 2014 when the U.S.

In 2015, "birthers" falsely claimed that Obama's Occidental College transcript revealed he received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia after the resurgence of a fake news story from 2009. In July 2020, Harry J.

It originally operated on the frequency 104.7 in and around campus from 1968 to 2009, but switched to only being available by webstream in 2009.

2010

KOXY sponsors several on-campus events. In 2010, Occidental College launched a TV station called CatAList, launched by then-students Daniel Watson and Raffy Cortina; Cortina was also the first Occidental student to be awarded with a Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his short Bottled Up.

2011

In 2011, Jeremy Castro ('99) and Patrick Guthrie ('86) steered the squad to a NSCRO final, falling to Longwood University 36–27 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

The school dropped football in 2020. In 2011, Occidental College lost a basketball game to Caltech with a score of 46 to 45 giving the Caltech Beavers their first conference win in 26 years and putting an end to their 310-game losing streak. Famous Occidental College Tigers include NFL coach Jim E.

Mora, former American Football League Most Valuable Player and politician Jack Kemp, former NFL player Vance Mueller, 2011 U.S.

2012

Two years later, the investigation was concluded with the Office of Civil Rights finding that "the preponderance of the evidence does not support a conclusion that the College violated Title IX, except with respect to the issue of promptness in several cases during the 2012-13 school years." President Barack Obama attended Occidental for two years prior to transferring to Columbia University.

The James Barrie version of the play Peter Pan was the first show performed at the opening ceremony in the summer of 1989. Occidental College was ranked as the sixth "Most Beautiful" campus by Newsweek in 2012.

2013

The 4,886-panel installation was completed in Spring 2013 and inaugurated on the school's 126-year anniversary. ==Academics== === Degree programs === There are 34 majors offered on campus (and nine minor-only programs, including Public Health, Linguistics, and Classical Studies) and a 9:1 student–faculty ratio.

2014

In July 2009, Jonathan Veitch, formerly dean of The New School's Eugene Lang College, became Occidental's 15th president and the first to be a native Angeleno. The college received some national scrutiny in 2014 when the U.S.

In 2014, diver Jessica Robson set the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference records for both 1m and 3m diving.

2015

In 2015, "birthers" falsely claimed that Obama's Occidental College transcript revealed he received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia after the resurgence of a fake news story from 2009. In July 2020, Harry J.

2017

The 2017 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges gave Occidental four-star ratings (out of five) in academics and quality of life.

Princeton Review's The Best 381 Colleges 2017 Edition gave Occidental ratings of 91 (out of 100) in academics and quality of life and 95 in financial aid.

In 2017, Occidental cancelled the remainder of its football season due to lack of healthy players, as few as 30 in some cases.

2019

In Forbes' 2019 ranking of America's Top Colleges, Occidental ranks 102nd out of 650 liberal arts colleges, universities and service academies.

Kiplinger's "Best College Values 2019" rankings places Occidental 58th among 149 liberal arts colleges. === Admissions === Fall Admission Statistics U.S.

As of the 2019–20 school year, The Occidental publishes biweekly in print and weekly online. KOXY is a student-run campus radio station, in operation in the 1960s and 1970s, and again since 2000.

The Tigers played nine games in 2019, finishing with a 1–8 record.

2020

In 2015, "birthers" falsely claimed that Obama's Occidental College transcript revealed he received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia after the resurgence of a fake news story from 2009. In July 2020, Harry J.

News deemed Occidental's admissions "more selective," with the class of 2020 acceptance rate being 37.3%.

Of those admitted to the class of 2020, 50% identified as persons of color, and 13% of those admitted were international students. ===Core program=== Divided in three parts, the Core Program was designed by the faculty of Occidental to unify and enhance the liberal arts education offered by the school.

The school dropped football in 2020. In 2011, Occidental College lost a basketball game to Caltech with a score of 46 to 45 giving the Caltech Beavers their first conference win in 26 years and putting an end to their 310-game losing streak. Famous Occidental College Tigers include NFL coach Jim E.

2021

News & World Report's 2021 rankings of American liberal arts colleges, Occidental is ranked tied for 40th overall, tied for 43rd in "Best Undergraduate Teaching", 59th for "Best Value", and tied at 73rd for "Top Performers on Social Mobility".




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