Claremont McKenna College (CMC), founded in 1946, defines liberal arts for the 21st century. One of the seven institutions comprising The Claremont Colleges, CMC is a highly selective, independent, coeducational, residential, undergraduate premier liberal arts college. Its mission is to educate its students for thoughtful and productive lives and responsible leadership. The College is differentiated by its learning by doing approach, which values creativity, empathy, and courage and fosters a social entrepreneurial focus that encourages students to make a difference in the world. By taking a student-centric approach that inspires student-faculty research collaboration, the College contributes to the intellectual vitality of its campus community and an understanding of public policy issues. The College pursues its mission by providing a strong liberal arts foundation that emphasizes economics, government, and public affairs while supporting a professoriate dedicated to effective undergraduate teaching, a robust exchange of ideas, a close student-teacher relationship that promotes critical inquiry, an interactive intellectual environment that encourages responsible citizenship and a unique array of research institutes and related scholarly support made possible by a world-class faculty of teacher-scholars.