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| Motto | Our tribute to Christian civilization |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | October 14, 1887 |
| President | Dr. David W. Oxtoby |
Academic staff | 196 |
| Undergraduates | 1548 |
| Postgraduates | 0 |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Suburban, 140 acres (0.65 km²) |
| Endowment | US$1,459,036,000[1] |
| Nickname | Sagehens |
| Mascot | Cecil Sagehen [1] |
| Website | www.pomona.edu |
Pomona College is a private residential liberal arts college located 33 miles (53 km) east of downtown Los Angeles in Claremont, California. The College was founded in 1887 in Pomona, California by a group of Congregationalists and moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a donated hotel; its name remained the same. The school's enrollment is 1,548 students.[1]
The founding member of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona is a non-sectarian, coeducational school. Its founders strove to create "a college of the New England type;" in order to reach this goal, the board of trustees included graduates of Williams, Dartmouth, Colby and Yale.[2] Beginning in 1925, the Claremont Colleges, which have grown to include five total undergraduate and two graduate institutions, have provided Pomona's student body with the resources of a larger university while preserving the closeness of a small college atmosphere.
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