Environmental Sustainability: Sensitivity for and preservation of the environment is a key value of Pitzer College. Campus landscaping utilizes drought-resistant, native plants and the College is proud of its many LEED-certified sustainable buildings. Students shape their daily activities, programming and studies to ensure they leave the environment and the world stronger than how they found it. Students interested in environmental issues will find Pitzer an exciting living and learning laboratory.
The first students arrive and instruction begins for a student body of 150 women, 11 founding faculty and a small number of staff.
"Man and His Environment: Major Global Problems in Contemporary Society" is introduced by Professor of Geography Emilio Stanley.
Rodman begins teaching environmental studies at Pitzer in 1970. He retires from teaching environmental studies and political studies in 2000.
Hertel is hired as Pitzer's first professor of art and environmental design. He teaches until 1996.
New courses with an emphasis on environmental studies are introduced in the 1967-68 academic year.
Leading experts in their fields speak about the topic of air pollution.
Professor John Rodman testifies at state and federal hearings on air pollution.
New Environmental Studies courses are introduced in 1969-70.
Environmental Studies is added to the curriculum as a field of concentration.
New courses are introduced to support the new Environmental Studies curriculum in 1970-71.
Fourteen students from The Claremont Colleges, eleven of whom are Pitzer students, participate in a nine-week art project in Tuscarora, Nevada.
PS190 The Politics, Economics and Environmental Aspects of Water Resources in California, is introduced by Professor James Jamieson in 1971-72.
A student co-op is started in Sanborn Hall to purchase food and cook meals in the communal kitchen.
This External Studies program is introduced by Professor John Rodman.
New environmental studies courses are introduced in 1972-73.
Professor of Natural Philosophy and Human Ecology Paul Shepard is hired in the Spring of 1973 as Avery Professor in the field of environmental studies.
Paul Shepard’s landmark book “The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game” is published.
A geodesic dome is built by students near the Brant Clock Tower.
New environmental studies courses are introduced in 1973-74.
The conference is coordinated by John R. Rodman and sponsored by Pitzer College, the School of Theology and the National Audubon Society.
New courses are introduced to support the Environmental Studies curriculum.
A four-week intensive workshop in art, alternative energy systems and environments is held at Pitzer’s new Thompson Ranch Wilderness Park in the San Gabriel Mountains.
New courses are introduced to support the Environmental Studies curriculum.
He delivers two ectures: “Ecology and Environmental Design” and “The Importance of Place!” by Paul Shepard at the University of Alberta, Calgary
"The Desert Colloquium: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Desert as Place," is arranged by Professors Carl Hertel and Paul Shepard for spring 1976.
ES136 Animals and the Imagination is introduced by Professor Paul Shepard .
John Rodman delivers controversial remarks at a plenary session of an oil and gas conference.
Purchased from Pilgrim Place in Claremont for $1, the arts and crafts bungalow is moved to campus. It is dedicated in 1980.
Rodman delivers a paper at the annual meeting of The American Political Science Association in Washington, DC.
Seminar: The Ecological Imagination, is introduced by Professor John Rodman.
The Robert J. Bernard Biological Field Station of The Claremont Colleges opens for academic use.
Several new courses are introduced to support the Environmental Studies curriculum.
Solar Colloquium is coordinated by Professors Carl Hertel and John Rodman.
ES30 Confrontations with Nature: The Western Experience, is introduced by Professor Paul Shepard.
A large outdoor energy event features Amory and Hunter Lovins '75, advocates of efficient and “soft” energy.
The Joint Science Department is awarded a $45,000 grant by Atlantic Richfield Foundation for an environmental sciences laboratory.
The lecture is titled “If You Care About Nature, You Can’t Go on Hating the Germans Like This.”
This domestic External Studies program is directed by Professor Carl Hertel.
Paul H. Shepard, Avery Professor of Natural Philosophy and Human Ecology, and Barry Sanders, professor of English, collaborate on the book.
In spring 1987, artist Lee Waisler is invited to inflate his five-story-high, 50-foot-wide black mushroom cloud sculpture "Time Bomb" on campus.
The College approves John Rodman’s proposal to formally create an arboretum.
John Rodman proposes an authentic ecological restoration in the northern half of the area known as the "Outback."
This area of native California chaparral is listed on the National Register of Arboretums.
The yurt is paid for in part by funds donated by the class of 1990. The class wants to provide the College with some kind of outdoor classroom.
McFarlane begins teaching at the Joint Science Department (now Keck Science Department).
Paul Faulstich ’79 is hired as Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies. He is hired permanently in 1993.
Professors of Art Michael Woodcock and Carl Hertel and alumna Suzanne Zetterberg '68 take 13 students to Arizona for two weeks to meet with artist James Turrell and work on the Roden Crater Project.
Claremont Environmental Designs, a local landscape consortium, works closely with Professor John Rodman to design new environmentally sound landscaping.
Miller, who teaches sculpture and drawing, combines a wide array of thoughts, ideas and concepts using sculpture, photography, video performance and life processes.
The campus community tears up a parking lot behind the Grove House on a Community Gardening Day.
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