Harvey Mudd College

This section needs expansion . You can help by expanding it . ( January 2021 ) Harvey Mudd College was founded in 1955. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Classes began in 1957 with a class of 48 students, 7 faculty and one building–Mildred E. Mudd Hall, a dormitory. Classes and meals took place at Claremont Men's College ( Claremont McKenna College ), and labs in the Baxter Science Building until additional buildings could be built: Jacobs Science Building (1959), Thomas-Garett Hall (1961) and Platt Campus Center (1963). By 1966, the campus had grown to 283 students and 43 faculty. [ 5 ] Under the presidency of Maria Klawe as of 2006, Harvey Mudd became a leading advocate for women in STEM in higher education. [ 7 ] In April 2017, all classes were cancelled for two days in response to tensions on campus over workload, race issues, and mistrust of faculty. [ 8 ] Contributing events included the deaths of two Mudd students and a Scripps student that year and the leak of the Wabash Report on teaching, learning, and workload at Mudd. [ 9 ] On July 1, 2023, Harriet Nembhard became the sixth President of Harvey Mudd College. [ 10 ]

The former Norman F. Sprague Memorial Library Outdoor classes at Harvey Mudd The original buildings of the campus, designed by Edward Durell Stone and completed in 1959, [ 11 ] feature "knobbly concrete squares that students of Harvey Mudd affectionately call "warts" and use as hooks for skateboards." [ 12 ] The school's unofficial mascot "Wally the Wart" is an anthropomorphic concrete wart. [ 12 ] In 2013, Travel and Leisure named the college as one of "America's ugliest college campuses" and noted that while Stone regarded his design as a " Modernist masterpiece", the result was "layering drab, slab-sided buildings with Beaux-Arts decoration." [ 12 ] Academic buildings The official names for the academic buildings of Harvey Mudd College are: [ 13 ] F.W. Olin Science Center ("Olin") - 1992 [ 14 ] Parsons Engineering Building ("Parsons") - 1972 R. Michael Shanahan Center for Teaching and Learning ("Shan") - 2013 [ 15 ] Jacobs Science Center ("Jacobs") - 1959 W.M. Keck Laboratories ("Keck") Scott A. McGregor Computer Science Center ("Greg") - 2021 [ 16 ]

View of central campus, looking out of the former Norman F. Sprague Memorial Library The official names for the dormitories of Harvey Mudd College are (listed in order of construction): [ 13 ] [ 17 ] Mildred E. Mudd Hall ("East") - 1957 West Hall ("West") - 1958 North Hall ("North") - 1959 Marks Residence Hall ("South") - 1968 J. L. Atwood Residence Hall ("Atwood") - 1981 Case Residence Hall ("Case") - 1985 Ronald and Maxine Linde Residence Hall ("Linde") - 1993 Frederick and Susan Sontag Residence Hall ("Sontag") - 2004 Wayne and Julie Drinkward Residence Hall ("Drinkward") [ 18 ] - 2015 Garrett House - completed in 1959 as the president's house, converted to a dorm in 2023 Galileo Hall and Hixon Courtyard Until the addition of the Linde and Sontag dorms, Atwood and Case dorms were occasionally referred to as New Dorm and New Dorm II; Mildred E. Mudd Hall and Marks Hall are almost invariably referred to as East Dorm and South Dorm. During the construction of Case Dorm some students decided as a prank to move all of the survey stakes exactly six inches in one direction. [ 19 ] "East" was the first dorm, but it wasn't until "West" was built west of it that it was actually referred to as "East". Then, "North" was built, directly north of "East". When the fourth dorm, Marks Hall, was built, there was one corner of the quad available (the northwest) and one directional name, "South", remaining. [ 20 ] To this day, "South" dorm is the northernmost HMC inner dorm. The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth dorms built are Atwood, Case, Linde, Sontag, and Drinkward, respectively. They were initially referred to as "the colonies" by some students, a reference to the fact that they were newer and at the farthest end of the campus; these dorms are now more commonly referred to as "the outer dorms", with the four directional dorms referred to as "the inner dorms".

The college had initially purchased an apartment building adjacent to the newer dorms to house additional students, but it was demolished to make room for Sontag. Since any HMC student, regardless of class year, can live in any of the dormitories, several of the dorms have accumulated long-standing traditions and so-called "personalities". [ 21 ]