FAQ
This project will integrate the historic core of campus and west of Columbia Avenue to cultivate a more vibrant campus environment and unify the College’s west side of Columbia Avenue and create a new Centennial Plaza and Arts District. In addition to much-needed academic spaces and a new dance center, the Plaza will provide welcoming spaces for the greater Scripps community and visitors to the campus.
The project will incorporate sustainable landscape features, including a bioswale. The bioswale will collect rainwater and allow it to soak into the ground, minimizing overflow, and preventing the ground from drying out.
The new classrooms are expected to be completed and fully operational during the 2026-27 academic year.
Our goal is to minimize classroom disruption while always ensuring student and faculty health and safety. While classes will continue per the Colleges’ academic calendar, there are some foreseeable disruptions that are expected, as they are in any type of construction project of this scale.
The College’s project team will work closely with Scripps administration and faculty and staff to keep the campus informed of the construction schedule as well as work to keep disruptions to a minimum.
This website will post regular updates from the project team throughout the project, and we encourage you to visit the site often as the project takes shape.
