The Hive at The Claremont Colleges

The Buzz: Your monthly catch-up call with your bestie The Hive -

The Buzz: Your monthly catch-up call with your bestie The Hive Happy November from the Hive!  You know that friend who lives in a different city, who you only have time to catch up with once a month or so? So when you call them, you have to make it count? Well, that’s how we think of this newsletter. That one precious check-in each month (but this one you do...

The Buzz: The Buzz: Surfboards, artificial islands, and a tasting menu in a dorm -

The Buzz: The Buzz: Surfboards, artificial islands, and a tasting menu in a dorm Happy fall, everyone!! Hive post-bac Olivia here.  Okay so. You know when you’ve got an incredible idea for a project, but it’s just out of reach? Maybe the materials are too expensive, or you need more accountability to actually put pen to paper. And you think if only someone would fund you to...

The Buzz: What Summer Camp Taught Us -

The Buzz: What Summer Camp Taught Us Happy September, friends! At the Hive, late summer and early fall is a time of lots of reunions, with our Hivester student staffers coming back, familiar faces and friends returning, and much-needed energy flooding the whole campus. We've been opening our doors, blasting tunes, and serving up all th...

The Buzz: Designing a Global Fellowship Program -

The Buzz: Designing a Global Fellowship Program Bzzz bzzzzzz, it's already August!  Here at the Hive, we've been really loving our summer rhythms. The slower pace of summer has given us space to dive into projects we're excited about, read books to help us dream up our fall classes, and get grounded and organized as we look ahead to a faster-p...

The Buzz: Welcome, Hunter and Madison! -

The Buzz: Welcome, Hunter and Madison! Happy July, Hive community! We hope you’ve been finding time to soak up summer’s slow rhythms, rest, and sun.  We recently welcomed two new Post-Baccalaureate Associates to our team here at the Hive, and pssssstttt, these two are pretty cool.  Hunter is joining the team as our Making Spaces Po...

The Buzz: Human-Centered Design for Writers -

The Buzz: Human-Centered Design for Writers Happy June, Hive community! We hope you've had a chance to kick back, sleep in, and eat some frozen treats as the heat ramps up and the pace cools down this summer.  Today, poet, actor, facilitator, and Hive Academic Coordinator Linett Luna Tovar shares how human-centered design principles serve as...

The Buzz: What More Can We Find? -

The Buzz: What More Can We Find? Some things are better kept separate. Cereal and hot sauce, loud sounds and early mornings, water and outlets, to name a few. But some things really are better together … peanut butter and jelly, loud music and rolled-down car windows, human-centered design and Visual Thinking Strategies. Oh, what...

The Buzz: Give the bees a swarm welcome! -

The Buzz: Give the bees a swarm welcome! I asked some members of our team here at the Hive to share with me one thing that has been fueling them in their work or creative processes recently.  Below, a toolbox of sorts, for the next time you need a little inspiration or fuel. Or honey.

The Buzz: Bean bags, bike tracks, and balloon pits – Space design at the Hive -

The Buzz: Bean bags, bike tracks, and balloon pits – Space design at the Hive Have you ever wondered who lived in your room before you? What dinner parties were hosted around your kitchen table before you moved in? Or why there’s a weird patch of paint above your dresser? What are the past lives of the spaces we love, where we lounge, laugh, cry, and sleep, and how did thes...

The Buzz: in conversation with professor Jasmine Baetz -

The Buzz: in conversation with professor Jasmine Baetz Hey all! Hive post-bac Olivia here. Happy February! I recently had the chance to sit down with Jasmine Baetz, Lincoln Visiting Professor in Ceramics at Scripps College. In the fall, Jasmine was awarded Hive faculty course grants for her courses Clay and Fiber and Materials and Extraction. Jasmine’...

The Buzz: something we're excited for in 2023 -

The Buzz: something we're excited for in 2023 Hellooooo and happy new year! As we enter 2023, we want to share something new we’ll be diving into this spring. We’re really excited about this one.  Starting in a few weeks, we’ll be launching CoLab Mexico, the Hive’s newest global initiative designed to provide students with the opportu...

Happy New Year Hive community!

We are hiring two Post Baccalaureate Associates to lead our Designing Your Team program and help oversee our making spaces, respectively. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to join the Hive team and help drive the growth of vital creativity programs and spaces for liberal arts college students, faculty, staff, and athletes. We are accepting applications until January 31st. These two-year, full-time positions will begin between March and July 2023 making this an ideal opportunity for undergraduate alumni and 2023 graduates. Sound like you? Send your app! Links to the two full job descriptions and application requirements can be found below.

We would love to see a diverse group of candidates, so if this opportunity is not for you, we’d appreciate your spreading the word among your peers/networks.

Thank you so much for your time!

Post-Baccalaureate Associate: Designing Your Team
https://theclaremontcolleges.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/POM_Careers/job/Claremont/Post-Baccalaureate-Associate--Desiging-Your-Team_REQ-5199

Post-Baccalaureate Associate: Making Spaces: https://theclaremontcolleges.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/POM_Careers/job/Claremont/Post-Baccalaureate-Associate--Making-Spaces_REQ-5200

Post-Baccalaureate Associate, Designing Your Team Job Posting Location: Claremont, CA Job Posting Title: Post-Baccalaureate Associate, Designing Your Team Job Description: Post-Baccalaureate Associate, Designing Your Team ABOUT POMONA COLLEGE: Located near Los Angeles, California, Pomona College is widely regarded as one of the nation's premier lib...