page_title: Pomona College
section_title: North Campus
hierarchical_section_title: Pomona College / Campus / North Campus
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of Pomona College's north campus, including Walker Beach, Walker Hall, and the Smith Clock Tower.
context_page_description: Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California, and in the 1920s, it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium.
  Pomona is a four-year undergraduate institution, and enrolled approximately 1,700 students as of fall 2019. The college offers 48 majors and 600 courses, though students have access to more than 2000 additional courses at the other Claremont Colleges. The college's 140-acre main campus is in a residential community near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.
  Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U.S. liberal arts college, and is ranked among the top five liberal arts colleges in the country by Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, and the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education ranking. It has an endowment of $2.33 billion as of June 2019, giving it the seventh-highest endowment per student of any college or university in the U.S.
context_section_description: North Campus is also a mix of residential and academic buildings. Most of the academic buildings house science departments. Among the notable buildings are the Richard C. Seaver Biology Building ("Seaver West"), completed in 2005, the Lincoln and Edmunds buildings, both completed in 2007, the Sontag and Dialynas residence halls, both completed in 2011, and the Millikan Laboratory for Math, Physics, and Astronomy, completed in 2015. North Campus is also home to the Center for Creativity and Collaboration, established in 2015 and colloquially termed as "The Hive".
  The Lincoln and Edmunds academic buildings were the first buildings in Claremont to garner a gold certification award from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Program. They also house Dividing the Light, a skyspace by renowned artist and alumnus James Turrell '65. Dialynas and Sontag Hall were built to LEED platinum standards, only the second large-scale residence halls in the country to earn that designation by their completion time. Millikan Hall is the first LEED platinum certified science building on campus.
  North Campus dormitories house mostly juniors and seniors. Smiley Hall was built in 1908; the college claims that it is the oldest lived-in dorm in the Western United States. Frary Dining Hall, one of two dining halls on campus, is the location of the murals Prometheus by José Clemente Orozco, his first work in the U.S., and Genesis by Rico Lebrun.
caption: Walker Hall, a North Campus residence hall
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