(1963). By 1966, the campus had grown to 283 students and 43 faculty.
Under the presidency of Maria Klawe as of 2006, Harvey Mudd became a leading advocate for women in STEM in higher education.
In April 2017, all classes were cancelled for two days in response to tensions on campus over workload, race issues, and mistrust of faculty. Contributing events included the deaths of two Mudd students and a Scripps student that year and the leak of the Wabash Report on teaching, learning, and workload at Mudd.
On July 1, 2023, Harriet Nembhard became the sixth President of Harvey Mudd College.
== Campus ==
The original buildings of the campus, designed by Edward Durell Stone and completed in 1959, feature "knobbly concrete squares that students of Harvey Mudd affectionately call "warts" and use as hooks for skateboards." The school's unofficial mascot "Wally the Wart" is an anthropomorphic concrete wart.
In 2013, Travel and Leisure named the college as one of "America's ugliest college campuses" and noted that while …
