Jump to content

Scripps College

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Sdkb (talk | contribs) at 09:11, 15 August 2020 (→History: expand). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Not to be confused with other organizations named Scripps.
Scripps College
MottoIncipit Vita Nova (Latin)
Motto in English
"Here begins new life"
TypePrivate liberal arts college
Women's college
Established1926; 98 years ago (1926)
Endowment$375.6 million (2019)[1]
Budget$83 million[2]
PresidentLara Tiedens
Academic staff
136 (102 full-time)(2019)[3]
Students1,109 (2019)[3]
Undergraduates1,089 (2019)[3]
Postgraduates20 (2019)[3]
Location
Claremont
,
California
,
United States
CampusSuburban, 32 acres (12.9 ha)[4]
ColorsGreen and White
  [5]
NicknameStags (men) / Athenas (women)
AffiliationsClaremont Colleges
NAICU[6]
CLAC
Annapolis Group
MascotCMS Athena's La Semeuse ("she who sows")
Websitewww.scrippscollege.edu

Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California. Founded in 1926, it had an enrollment of 1,109 students as of 2019.[3] It is a member of the Claremont Colleges and is known for its extensive interdisciplinary core curriculum and historic campus.

Scripps is an undergraduate institution with an emphasis in the humanities and in interdisciplinary education.[7][better source needed] It is widely regarded as the most prestigious women's college in the Western United States,[8] and is consistently ranked the top such college by U.S. News[9] and the other major rankings. The college is a top producer of Fulbright students.[10]

History

External image
image icon Construction of Toll Hall c. 1927
Scripps' Elm Tree Lawn

Scripps College was founded in 1926, one year after the establishment of the Claremont Colleges consortium envisioned by James Blaisdell, as its third member, following coeducational Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University. The college was endowed with a gift from Ellen Browning Scripps, a philanthropist and prominent figure in the worlds of education, publishing, and women's rights. According to Scripps, "the paramount obligation of a college is to develop in its students the ability to think clearly and independently, and the ability to live confidently, courageously, and hopefully".[11] Soon after its founding, in 1927 the first dormitory was dedicated in memory of trustee Eleanor Joy Toll.[12]

At the age of 89, Scripps founded the college as one of the first institutions in the West dedicated to educating women for both professional careers and personal growth. Scripps's "experiment in education" called for a setting with an artistic connection between buildings and garden landscape on an intimate scale.[citation needed]

In 1968, students occupied a grove of olive trees to save them from being cut down to make space for the construction of the Humanities Building.[13]

In 2001, the college opened a centralized dining facility, Mallott Commons, ending the practice of serving meals in the residence halls.[citation needed]

In 2014, the college began admitting transgender women.[14][15]

The motto of the college is "Incipit Vita Nova" ("Here Begins New Life") from Dante's New Life.[16]

Campus

A view of the tree-filled Balch Hall courtyard at Scripps College

Scripps College is frequently described as one of America's most beautiful college campuses and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.[17][18][19] In its 2017 edition of The Best 379 Colleges, the Princeton Review cited the campus as the twelfth most beautiful in the United States, and has been corroborated by Forbes,[20] U.S. News & World Report, The Huffington Post, and others.[21][22]

Scripps College was the first recipient of the Getty Campus Heritage Initiative Program, which documented different aspects of the college that were deemed historically significant and at risk of change.[23] The original historic precinct was recorded and the history of each site (such as residence hall or garden) was given, an original appearance was described, and a recording of changes over time was taken.[24] Different courtyards on site, such as the Sicilian Court, Iris Court, and Margaret Fowler Garden were surveyed and adjusted to resemble their initial designs wherever possible.

Balch Hall

Scripps is located in the center of the Claremont Colleges, surrounded by Harvey Mudd College to the north, Pitzer College to the east, Claremont McKenna College and Pomona College to the south, and Claremont Graduate University to the west. The original campus was designed by Gordon Kaufmann in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture. In general, his 1926 campus plan has been carefully preserved, with major vistas linking the central areas. The overall planting schemes and landscaping devised by Edward Huntsman-Trout[25] are still followed.

The campus also offers a number of interactive landscaping elements, including a rose garden to the north designated for community cutting and fruit trees available for picking. Oranges, grapefruits, pomegranates, kumquats, and loquats are available to students. Scripps also harvests olives from its olive trees and presses it into award-winning olive oil.[26]

Several facilities are shared by the members of the Claremont Consortium including Honnold/Mudd Library, the Keck Science Center, and the Robert J. Bernard Field Station.

Scripps College is also the home of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery,[27] which maintains Scripps College's permanent art collection of some 7,500 objects spanning 3,000 years of art history.[28] Objects are available for use in classes, displayed in campus exhibitions, and loaned to other exhibiting institutions. Among the holdings in the collection are works by American artists Andy Warhol, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, and John James Audubon, and an extensive collection of paintings by the California artist and Scripps Professor Emeritus Millard Sheets.

Margaret Fowler Garden

A view of the central pool, northern arcade and sculpture in the Margaret Fowler Garden at Scripps College.

Originally designed as a European medieval-style cloister garden to be located east of a proposed (but never built) chapel, the Margaret Fowler Garden is a walled garden located on the Scripps College Campus. The garden is laid out in two distinct sections: the western area contains a sculpture by Albert Stewart called "Eternal Primitive". The western area of the garden also contains a central pool and four walkways extending in the cardinal directions. The eastern end has a Mediterranean style tiled wall fountain and open flagstone area. Arcades run along the north and south sides of the garden.

On the south wall of the Margaret Fowler Garden are murals by Alfredo Ramos Martínez. The College commissioned Martinez in 1945 to paint a mural (entitled "The Flower Vendors" by Martínez) on the south wall of the Fowler garden. Martínez sketched in the entire composition on the plaster wall and began working on several panels before dying unexpectedly on November 8, 1946 at the age of 72, leaving the mural unfinished. In 1994, a grant from the Getty Endowment allowed the mural to be conserved.[29]

Environmental sustainability

Balch Hall courtyard

Scripps College has several sustainability initiatives underway, from energy conservation to green building practices. On the conservation front, the college has seen monetary and energy savings through use of a new energy management system, and has designed water systems to cut down on waste. Turning "Alumnae Field" into a natural surface also helped in efforts to conserve water. Scripps has also downsized trash bins and made "to-go" containers recyclable, in order to divert more waste from landfills. On the emissions reductions front, maintenance staff use electric blowers and carts (as opposed to gas powered equipment), while a ride-sharing program is available for students, faculty and staff.[30]

For its practices regarding sustainability, Scripps earned a B- on the College Sustainability Report Card 2011, published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute. This grade reflects a quantitative analysis of the effectiveness of the institution's policies. The college received positive recognition for student involvement, on-campus transportation, its food and recycling programs, water programs, and LEED buildings, but fared poorly on the shareholder involvement evaluation category of the report.[31]

Academics

Scripps' Garrison Theater is one of the largest performance spaces at the Claremont Colleges, and frequently hosts talks by distinguished speakers.

Scripps is a member of the Claremont Colleges, and much of student life revolves around the five colleges, or "5Cs." Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Pomona College, Pitzer College, and Harvey Mudd College not only interact socially, but also share dining halls, libraries, and other facilities spread throughout the bordering campuses. All five colleges, along with Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, are part of the Claremont University Consortium.

Scripps students can cross-register for classes at or enroll in the majors of any of the undergraduate schools at The Claremont Colleges. Top majors for 2013-14 include art, biology, economics, English, French studies, math, politics, and psychology. Classes average 16 students, with an overall student-to-teacher ratio of 10:1. More than 21% choose to double or dual major by the time they graduate. All courses are taught by faculty.

Academics are focused on interdisciplinary humanities, combined with rigorous training in the disciplines.[32] General requirements include classes in mathematics, fine arts, letters, natural sciences, social sciences, foreign language, women's/gender studies, and race/ethnic studies. Scripps also requires first-year students to take a writing course in their first semester.[33] Each graduating student must complete a senior thesis or project.[34]

Rankings

Academic rankings
Liberal arts
U.S. News & World Report[35]33
Washington Monthly[36]97
National
Forbes[37]60
WSJ/College Pulse[38]65

The 2020 annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report categorizes Scripps as 'more selective', and ranks it tied for 33rd best liberal arts college in the nation, 95th in "Best Value, and the third best women's college after Wellesley College and Smith College.[39] Forbes in 2019 rated it 60th in its "America's Top Colleges" ranking of 650 schools, which include military academies, national universities, and liberal arts colleges.[40] Kiplinger's Personal Finance places Scripps at 39th in its 2019 ranking of 149 best value liberal arts colleges in the United States.[41] Washington Monthly ranked Scripps 97th in 2019 among 214 liberal arts colleges in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.[42]

Admissions

Fall Admission Statistics
  2019[43] 2018[44] 2017[45] 2016[46] 2015[47]
Applicants 3,022 3,160 2,841 3,032 2,613
Admits 967 766 948 903 729
Admit rate 32.0% 24.2% 33.4% 29.8% 27.9%
Enrolled 283 252 327 270 277
SAT range 1330-1470 1300-1480 1290-1460 1290-1440 1280-1448
ACT range 30-33 30-33 29-33 28-32 29-32

For the Class of 2023 (enrolling fall 2019), Scripps accepted 967 of the 3,022 applicants (32.0%).[43]

Scripps College does not require the SAT or ACT exams for students applying for admission.[48] For the Class of 2023, of the 62.2% of enrolled freshmen submitting SAT scores the middle 50% range was 673-740 for evidence-based reading and writing, 660-750 for math, while the ACT Composite middle 50% range was 30-33 for the 50.9% who submitted scores.[43] The average high school GPA of incoming freshmen was 4.20.[43]

The Core Curriculum

A key part of the Scripps experience is the Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Studies, a sequence of three classes that encourage students to think critically and challenge ideas. Every first-year student takes Core I in the fall, which introduces students to major ideas that shape the modern world. Core II seminars focus on specific ideas introduced in Core I and are usually team-taught by two professors in different fields, such as physics and art. The concluding Core III classes encourage discussion and critical thinking for first-semester sophomores, culminating in individual projects that often lead to students' senior thesis or project.

Study abroad

Scripps College also maintains a robust study abroad program. The program, which more than 60% of students take advantage of, offers access to more than 120 approved programs in 86 cities in 47 countries (including domestic exchanges with Spelman College and George Washington University and internships in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C.).

Student life

The Scripps student body consists of 1109 students as of 2019. Roughly half of students are white, and nearly all are female.[49] The median family income of Scripps students is $160,700, with 49% of students coming from the top 10% highest-earning families and 15% from the bottom 60%.[50]

Residential life

Browning and Dorsey residence halls

Scripps is a residential campus, with nine halls and on-campus apartments providing living arrangements for all four years of undergraduate study. In 2017, The Princeton Review included Scripps in several of their rankings, such as "Best College Dorms" (#5), "Most Beautiful Campus" (#12), and "Best Campus Food" (#13).[51]

All residence halls are mixed-class halls; first-year students, sophomores, juniors, and seniors live in one shared community. The number of residents in each hall ranges from 70 to 120, and each is governed by a Hall Council made up of five officers elected by the residents of that hall.

As of October 2014, an anonymous donor gifted Scripps College with $10 million to support the construction of a 10th residence hall[52] named Nan Elizabeth Walsh Schow Hall.[53]

Student organizations

There are a number of registered clubs and organizations (abbreviated CLORGs) at Scripps.[54] Scripps students also frequently participate in 5C clubs alongside students from the other Claremont Colleges.

A student-run feminist coffeehouse known as The Motley is a popular hangout spot and focal point for social life at the college.[55]

There are several media organizations at Scripps, including The Student Life, which covers all 5Cs, and The Scripps Voice.

Athletics

Main article: Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas

Scripps varsity athletes compete alongside athletes from Claremont McKenna College and Harvey Mudd College (other consortium members) as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas.[56] The teams participate in NCAA Division III in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Athletics history

According to the Division III Fall Learfield Director's Cup Standings for the 2016-2017 year, CMS ranks 12th among all Division III programs, and first among SCIAC colleges.[57] The CMS golf team ranked first among NCAA Division III teams according to Golf Digest, and 17th overall (including Division 1 schools). The rankings are based on the "Balanced" category which is "for students who place equal emphasis on school and sports".[58]

Sports

Axelrood Pool

Female Scripps athletes compete on the 11 CMS women's teams:[56]

  • Basketball
  • Cross Country
  • Golf
  • Lacrosse
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Swimming and Diving
  • Tennis
  • Track and Field
  • Volleyball
  • Water Polo

There are also 10 CMS men's teams, but these have few if any Scripps athletes.

Athletic facilities

  • Basketball and Volleyball — Roberts Pavilion
  • Lacrosse — John Zinda Field
  • Softball — Softball Field
  • Soccer — John Pritzlaff Field
  • Swimming and Diving — Matt M. Axelrood Pool
  • Tennis — Biszantz Family Tennis Center
  • Track and Field — Burns Track Complex[59]

Rivals

The other sports combination of the Claremont Colleges, and CMS' primary rival, is the team made up of Pomona College and Pitzer College known as the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens (P-P).

Notable alumni

Main article: List of Scripps College people
Main category: Scripps College people
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ 8th), class of 1993.
  • Helene Mayer (1910–1953), German and American Olympic champion fencer
  • Merodie A. Hancock, American academic and president of Thomas Edison State University[60]
  • Gabrielle Giffords (Class of 1993), Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Arizona's 8th district
  • Alison Saar (Class of 1978), African-American sculptor and installation artist

References

  1. ^ As of June 30, 2019. "U.S. and Canadian 2019 NTSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2019 Endowment Market Value, and Percentage Change in Market Value from FY18 to FY19 (Revised)". National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  2. ^ "Scripps College 2016 990 Form" (PDF). Guidestar. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Scripps College Common Data Set 2019-2020" (PDF). Scripps College.
  4. ^ "At a Glance". Scripps College. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  5. ^ "Scripps College Style Guide" (PDF). Scripps College. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  6. ^ NAICU – Member Directory Archived November 9, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "About Scripps College | At a Glance". www.scrippscollege.edu. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  8. ^ Fiske, Edward B. (June 15, 2019). Fiske Guide to Colleges 2020 (36th ed.). Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks. p. 154. ISBN 9781492664949. Scripps is easily the premier women's college on the West Coast
  9. ^ Moody, Josh (24 January 2020). "A Guide to Women's Colleges". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Top Producers of Fulbright U.S. Scholars and Students, 2019-20". Chronicle of Higher Education. 9 February 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  11. ^ http://www.scrippscollege.edu/parents/handbook-mission.php[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ "Women's College Dedication" Press-Courier (October 18, 1927): 4. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  13. ^ "About Scripps | College Timeline". Scripps College. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  14. ^ Gunther, Sean. "Scripps Approves Trans-Inclusive Admissions Policy". The Student Life. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  15. ^ Jaschik, Scott. "Scripps College Will Admit Transgender Women". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  16. ^ "Dante Online - Le Opere". danteonline.it.
  17. ^ "Scripps College". campusheritage.org.
  18. ^ "Scripps College". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  19. ^ Neiuber, John (13 January 2017). "The National Register of Historic Places | Claremont Courier". www.claremont-courier.com. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  20. ^ "America's Most Beautiful College Campuses". Forbes.
  21. ^ "Scripps College". Niche.com. 12 December 2014.
  22. ^ ""America's most beautiful college campuses", Travel+Leisure (September 2011)". Travel + Leisure. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  23. ^ "Campus Heritage Grants Awarded - 2002". The Getty. The Getty. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  24. ^ Interview with Professor Eric Haskell. 4 April 2018.
  25. ^ "Edward Huntsman Trout - The Cultural Landscape Foundation".
  26. ^ "Scripps College Wins Best Olive Oil After Last-Minute Contest Entry". NBC Los Angeles.[dead link]
  27. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-11-19. Retrieved 2008-08-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  28. ^ "Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery". Web-kiosk.scrippscollege.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
  29. ^ http://www.scrippscollege.edu/about/campus-guide/margaret-fowler-gardens.php[permanent dead link]
  30. ^ [1] Archived December 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  31. ^ "Scripps College - Green Report Card 2011". Greenreportcard.org. 2010. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
  32. ^ "Scripps College Catalog - Interdisciplinary Humanities". scrippscollege.edu. 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
  33. ^ "Scripps College Catalog - General Education Requirements". scrippscollege.edu. 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
  34. ^ "Scripps College Catalog - The Major". scrippscollege.edu. 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
  35. ^ "2023-2024 National Liberal Arts Colleges Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. September 18, 2023. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  36. ^ "2024 Liberal Arts Colleges Rankings". Washington Monthly. August 25, 2024. Retrieved August 29, 2024.
  37. ^ "America's Top Colleges 2024". Forbes. September 6, 2024. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
  38. ^ "2025 Best Colleges in the U.S." The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse. September 4, 2024. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
  39. ^ "Scripps College Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. 2020. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  40. ^ "America's Top Colleges". Forbes. August 15, 2019.
  41. ^ "Kiplinger's Best College Values: Scripps College Ranking". Kiplinger's Personal Finance. July 2019.
  42. ^ "2019 Liberal Arts College Rankings". Washington Monthly. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  43. ^ a b c d "Scripps College Common Data Set 2019-2020" (PDF). Scripps College Institutional Research. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  44. ^ "Scripps College Common Data Set 2018-2019" (PDF). Scripps College Institutional Research. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  45. ^ "Scripps College Common Data Set 2017-2018" (PDF). Scripps College Institutional Research. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  46. ^ "Scripps College Common Data Set 2016-2017" (PDF). Scripps College Institutional Research. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  47. ^ "Scripps College Common Data Set 2015-2016" (PDF). Scripps College Institutional Research. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  48. ^ "First-Year Applicants". Scripps College. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  49. ^ "How Diverse is Scripps College?". College Factual. 20 February 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  50. ^ Aisch, Gregor; Buchanan, Larry; Cox, Amanda; Quealy, Kevin (18 January 2017). "Economic diversity and student outcomes at Scripps". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  51. ^ http://www.scrippscollege.edu/about/glance/rankings
  52. ^ "Anonymous Gift Lays the Foundation for New Scripps Residence". Scripps College.
  53. ^ https://www.scrippscollege.edu/news/campus-news/2018-fall-welcome-from-the-president
  54. ^ "Scripps Clubs & Organizations". Scripps Associated Students. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  55. ^ Woods II, Wes (March 11, 2014). "Claremont College's Motley Coffeehouse a socially-conscious coffee lovers dream". Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  56. ^ a b "[2]" Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  57. ^ "2016-17 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup" (PDF). NCADA.
  58. ^ [3] Archived May 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  59. ^ "CMS Athletic Facilities". cmsathletics.org.
  60. ^ Merodie Hancock ’87 Inaugurated Fourth President of SUNY Empire State College, March 27, 2014. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scripps College.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scripps_College&oldid=973091816"