The Committee on Innovation, Dialogue, and Engagement (CIDE) provides advice and recommendations to develop and support a campus-wide culture of inclusion. Committee members are appointed annually at the beginning of the fall semester. Committee members serve one-year, renewable terms, and represent a broad range of constituents, including faculty, staff, students, and an alumna.
Scripps seeks to create an engaging campus environment without discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, culture, color, beliefs, disability, socioeconomic status, gender identity, sexual orientation, social origin or age for all students, faculty, and staff.
Scripps believes that learning and teaching create the conditions conducive to freedom of belief, inquiry, and speech, encouraging expression of the broadest range of opinions and beliefs.
It is the mission of CIDE to modeling and advising on ways to increase the level of mindful and thoughtful discourse, prevent bias incidents in and outside the classroom, develop trust within the community, and to formulate a vision and determine what is needed to achieve that vision.