Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University is a private, tax-exempt educational institution located in Claremont, California, that has been registered to receive federal awards since May 2000. As a research-focused graduate institution, the university provides specialized services and research expertise to the federal government through both contract and grant awards, spanning domains including evaluation methodology, workforce development, STEM education, and advanced computational research.

Through federal contract awards, Claremont Graduate University has demonstrated expertise in evaluation services and professional development training. The university received purchase orders from the National Science Foundation's Division of Human Resources Management totaling $35,000 to provide two separate training initiatives: a $21,000 contract for culturally responsive and racially equitable evaluation services delivered from January through September 2024, and a $14,000 contract for an "Introduction to Machine Learning for Evaluators" training course delivered from October 2023 through March 2024. Additionally, the university received a $24,750 purchase order from the Federal Highway Administration in 2021 to provide 30 seats in an introductory course on cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis through the Evaluator Institute. These contracts were delivered as firm fixed-price purchase orders with no major subcontractors or set-aside designations. The university has also participated as a subcontractor on federal contracts, receiving awards from prime contractors Leidos, Inc. in 2023 and 2024 for procurement of goods and services in support of contractual statements of work, and from Triad National Security, LLC in 2022 for research and development services.

Through federal grant awards, Claremont Graduate University has established itself as a significant research performer across multiple federal agencies and disciplines. The university has received substantial grants from the National Science Foundation addressing STEM education and workforce diversity, including a $520,872 grant for the Haseya Teacher Preparation Project focused on Native American education, a project examining culturally relevant mentorship for underrepresented minorities in STEM, and a project studying identity balance and persistence of Hispanic undergraduate students in engineering and biological sciences. The university has also received grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research on interventions to advance diversity in biomedical science, leveraging 12 years of longitudinal data on over 1,200 Black and Hispanic students. Research grants from the Office of Naval Research support computational harmonic analysis and radio frequency signal separation research, while the Department of Army Materiel Command funded basic research on super-resolution approaches to machine learning problems. Additionally, the university received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts investigating photography's impact on older adults' well-being, the National Endowment for the Humanities for a three-week institute on Mormonism and Mexico as a borderlands case study, the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for the Claremont Indian Education Project, the National Park Service for Route 66 preservation mapping initiatives, and the Department of Education for pandemic relief funding under the American Rescue Plan. The university has also served as a subgrantee under prime awards from Michigan State University, Northwestern University, the University of Rochester, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York, and the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, contributing to research on cognitive decline detection, working memory reconceptualization, adolescent vaping prevention, and causal inference methodologies.