and Scripps College. The college's motto is "Crescit cum commercio civitas", or "Civilization prospers with commerce".
=== Coeducation ===
In 1975, CMC trustees voted to admit women in a two-thirds vote supported by students representing the Associated Students of Claremont Men’s College; the first women admitted to CMC joined in 1976. The move followed a national trend toward coeducation among peer schools. CMC president Jack Stark, who led the college during the transition, considered it CMC’s most important moment. The women of the earliest classes of CMC are known as "Pioneers" and graduated with degrees that still bore the "Claremont's Mens College" moniker. In 1981, CMC was renamed Claremont McKenna College in honor of founding trustee Donald McKenna.
In November 1989, the father of a CMC student hired a stripper to perform in the college’s dining hall, sparking protests among some students. Then-CMC president Jack Stark told The New York Times that he did not wish to comment on “whether [the incident] …
