Code of Conduct

Equal Opportunity
The College is committed to preventing illegal discrimination in its administration of admission, educational, or employment policies and practices, and in the recruitment, training, promotion, financial support, or compensation of its faculty, students, or staff. The Statement on Harassment, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom, available on-line at http://hr.claremontmckenna.edu/policies/harassmentpolicy.pdf, articulates CMC’s official policy. Both internal and external programs exist to remedy and report cases of discrimination. Internally, staff and faculty are given specific administrators and deans to whom they are responsible for reporting any discrimination experienced or witnessed. As explicitly stated in the policy, reporting is a requirement of all employees. Students are not required to report, but are encouraged to do so through the Dean of Students. These policies created by this statement are currently implemented and followed.

Working Conditions

Claremont McKenna College aims to always uphold the highest standards of business and academic conduct and ethics. These principles are supported by the policies and procedures set forth in the College’s Faculty and Staff Handbooks.

Claremont McKenna College will never use forced labor, corporal punishment or child labor. The College seeks to provide competitive compensation and benefits in order to promote the well-being of employees. Furthermore, the College is committed to following all relevant laws regarding maximum work hours and minimum wage standards. Employees are guaranteed full rights to association and collective bargaining. Also, CMC meets or exceeds relevant standards for occupational health and safety. Finally, the College will not tolerate harassment or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, color, creed, ethnic or national origin, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by law.

CMC encourages employees with a good-faith belief that one or more policies of the College have been violated to contact a representative at human resources. The College guarantees that no retaliatory action will be carried out against any individual who files such a report in good faith..

Community Development

Take a Kid to College Day: Twenty fifth-grade girls and boys from Mountain View Elementary School participated in “Take a Kid to College Day” on April 1, 2005. The Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, the Kravis Leadership Institute and the Career Services Center planned events for local, disadvantaged children, in an attempt to inspire thoughts of college and the future. A total of 25 CMC undergraduate students volunteered to mentor the children throughout the day.

The Children’s School: The Children's School at Claremont McKenna College is a language based, developmentally centered school for two to eight year old children. Kids from the community at large attend, but priority is given to those applicants affiliated with the five colleges. The school covers pre-school through 3rd grade, and also provides before and after school care. More than a benefit just to the surrounding community, the school provides a place to directly apply research conducted at the affiliated Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children. More information is online at http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/childrensschool/.

Freshman Orientation: To inspire a spirit of volunteerism, CMC freshman orientation always includes a mandatory community service trip. In the past, freshman cleaned the grounds of a local cemetery.

Employee training, skills, and learning

ESL Tutoring: Employees of Claremont McKenna are eligible for free English as a Second Language tutoring. Students, paid by the college, tutor for two hours a week. Employees are paid for the first half an hour of every class, and then finish the class with a half an hour of unpaid time. This opportunity is open to any interested staff member. Not only providing a service to the staff, this program also gives CMC students valuable experience in teaching.

Customer Health and Safety

Campus Safety: The Department of Campus Safety is responsible for law enforcement, security, and emergency response on all campuses for the Claremont Consortium. This organization provides security alerts, free engraving of serial numbers on personal property, crime prevention presentations for students and employees, escort services, emergency telephones throughout the campuses, electronic alarms that notify Campus Safety of intrusions and fires, and routine checks of facilities.

Claremont McKenna’s commitment to student and employee safety goes beyond the responsibilities of the Department of Campus Safety. Extra precautions are in place to insure that residence halls can only be accessed by students. A student run escort service is funded by the school. All students receive whistles and safety talks during their orientation. Housekeeping staff are all given radios and instructed to report suspicious activity.

Burglaries represent the great majority of crimes at CMC. All Claremont College campuses, including CMC, have experienced a significant increase in burglary over the last three years. Other than burglary, no crime has been committed more than twice in a single year.

Employee Satisfaction

Claremont McKenna College recognizes its employees on Staff Appreciation Day. In a joint project between the student group Food for Thought and the Community Service Office, grounds-keeping, housekeeping, maintenance and dining hall staff were recognized with free breakfast, lunch and dinner with grateful students. Employees also received gift bags and individual thank you cards. The day’s funding of $1,800 came from the Student Senate and the Student Board of Directors. In addition to this recognition, the college provides free English as a Second Language tutoring and offers a tuition scholarship for children of employees. With a combination of student initiative and administrative funding, the college is continually monitoring and improving employee satisfaction.

Customer Satisfaction

In an effort to track student comments and complaints, every class fills out an evaluation that includes both quantitative scoring and qualitative essays. These evaluations are available to faculty members and interested students. The college also periodically sends questionnaires to alumni to judge satisfaction with various aspects of the educational process.

Student Voluntarism

McKenna International Summer Internship Program: The McKenna International Summer Internship provides financial assistance that enables CMC students to participate in an international learning experience related to career plans. Students propose an internship or volunteer work in the country of their choice, and then receive funds from the college to travel for free.

McKenna International Summer Internship Participation
Year	# of Students	Total $
2006	27	$102,000
2005	26	$105,000
2004	27	$ 97,500
2003	18	$ 61,700
2002	15	$ 59,300
2001	11	$45,700

Community Service Internship Program: CMC has a strong commitment to providing support for community service programs and activities. Students are encouraged to volunteer their time and skills to work with agencies, programs and organizations in the non-profit sector. To enable students to fulfill this commitment, the College provides a limited number of stipends to students who successfully identify, design and justify a proposal to work for a nonprofit agency, organization or program that does not have the financial resources to pay college summer workers. Stipends are made possible by donations from alumni, trustees, corporations, organizations and private individuals.

Community Service Internship Program Participation
Year	# of Students	Total $
2006	13	$31,500
2005	12	$36,000
2004	12	$36,000
2003	13	$39,000
2002	11	$27,500
2001	11	$27,500

Employees, trained

Health and Safety prevention training is outlined by the Injury and Illness Prevent Plan. The Safety and Emergency Preparedness Coordinator is in charge of training all supervisors. All employees receive training regarding the Injury and Illness Prevention Plan, Hazard Communication Program, Workplace Violence Prevention Program and Emergency Plan. Supervisors provide this training.