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Scripps College Community Smashes 2023 Day of Giving Goals
By Emily Glory Peters Scripps College is celebrating another successful Day of Giving thanks to the College’s generous and dedicated community! In total, 376 donors raised $136,037 in cash gifts, plus an additional pledge for $100,000 to support what they love at Scripps. Online and in person, countless champions helped raise awareness for the event […]
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Angela Schmitt P’23: Giving as a Scripps Parent Matters
By Emily Glory Peters Angela Schmitt P’23 knows that women’s colleges like Scripps are rare. Just as her daughter Zoe will this spring, Schmitt graduated from one herself, an experience that instilled an appreciation for learning environments shaped by women’s perspectives and leadership. But this is only one of the reasons she’s been intentional about […]
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Want to Connect With Scripps? Microengagement Might Be For You
By Emily Glory Peters Getting involved with the Scripps doesn’t need to involve a lot of time or resources The Scripps College community is built differently. From mentoring to serving on councils and committees to presenting on panels, we’re fortunate to have so many alumnae, parents, and friends who provide their knowledge and experience to […]
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Scripps Parents Revive Care Package Party Tradition for Students
By Emily Glory Peters Scripps parents made hundreds of care packages for students during finals week Saying that finals week can be nerve-wracking is an understatement, especially if it’s your first time taking them at the college level. But since 2017, Scripps families have stepped in with support, launching care package assembly parties to provide […]
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Scripps 101 Series Gives Families Behind-the-Scenes Look at Campus Life
By Emily Glory Peters Family involvement is a secret ingredient of Scripps’ intimate campus culture, with parents serving as mentors, presenting on panels, hiring students, hosting career exploration treks, assembling care packages and so much more. Yet some families may not be aware of the many resources available to them and their students—a knowledge gap […]
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Results for The Giving Season at Scripps College: You Topped Our Goal!
By Emily Glory Peters The Giving Season is a year-end campaign to raise support as our students enter the new year. To learn more, click here. This past November, Scripps College launched “The Giving Season” which sought to inspire 300 donors to make a gift before midnight on New Year’s Eve. Thanks to the generosity […]
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Scripps’ New Parent Leadership Council Co-Chairs: “All Parents Have Stories Students Benefit From”
By Emily Glory Peters John Fukunaga and Cheryl Shojinaga (far left and far right) are the newest co-chairs of Scripps’ Parent Leadership Council, a group dedicated to helping the College thrive. John Fukunaga and Cheryl Shojinaga are the newest co-chairs of Scripps’ Parent Leadership Council (PLC), a group dedicated to helping the College thrive—but they’re […]
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Rosy Weber ’23: Strengthening Leadership and Self Expression Through Art at Scripps
By Lauren Mar ’25 During The Giving Season at Scripps, we’re highlighting student leaders as they share how their Scripps experience helped them use their voice and act on new ideas. After attending an all-girls high school for a semester, Rosy Weber ’23 knew Scripps would provide her with a nurturing academic experience. “I found […]
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Eliza Kornfeld ’23 on Growing into a Leader at Scripps
By Emily Glory Peters During The Giving Season at Scripps, we’re highlighting student leaders as they share how their Scripps experience helped them use their voice and act on new ideas. When Eliza Kornfeld ’23 began looking at colleges, she knew one thing for certain: Bigger was not necessarily better. Her search included the five […]
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Your Giving in Action: Career Planning & Resources at Scripps College
By Emily Glory Peters With help from donors, Scripps College has offered professional development services to students since the 1960s, eventually creating the Career Planning & Resources center. In 1926, Scripps College was founded as a haven for liberal arts education—but the professional application of these disciplines has grown to be just as important. Through […]
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Eliza Kornfeld ’23 on Growing into a Leader at Scripps
By Emily Glory Peters During The Giving Season at Scripps, we’re highlighting student leaders as they share how their Scripps experience helped them use their voice and act on daring ideas. When Eliza Kornfeld ’23 began looking at colleges, she knew one thing for certain: Bigger was not necessarily better. Her search included the five […]
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The Giving Season at Scripps Starts November 30 on Giving Tuesday
By Emily Glory Peters The holidays are a peak time for charitable support at Scripps College, when many alums, parents, and friends choose to give back to our students. To celebrate our shared culture of philanthropy, the College invites the Scripps community to participate in The Giving Season, kicking off on Giving Tuesday, November 30, […]
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A Beginner’s Guide to Gift Planning: Supporting Scripps Students for the Future
By Emily Glory Peters Director of Gift Planning Teresa Wilmott shares that leaving something for Scripps students is simpler than you think. Planned gifts—also often called estate or legacy gifts—from Scripps College alums, parents, and friends have long helped the College expand since its founding in 1926. Put simply, explains Scripps’ Director of Gift Planning […]
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Rally Round Scripps’ Student-Athletes for this Year’s 1946 Challenge
By Emily Glory Peters Megan Maley ’23 (left) is just one of the many Scripps Athenas impacted by gifts to CMS Athletics during the 1946 Challenge When CMS Women’s Head Golf Coach Jodie Burton saw her student-athletes reunite in person after 18 months apart, she was struck by their emotion. These weren’t polite, workaday hugs, […]
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Scripps Trustee Establishes Dean Johnson Endowed Wellness Fund for Student Mental Health
By Emily Glory Peters Trustee Gale Picker P’14, P’19 has established a new mental health and wellness fund at Scripps College in honor of Charlotte Johnson, past dean of students and vice president of student affairs. In keeping with Johnson’s passion for student mental health programming, which expanded significantly at Scripps under her leadership, the […]
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Scripps’ CMS Athenas Return to In-Person Athletics This Fall
By Emily Glory Peters After an agonizing wait, Scripps is thrilled to welcome the CMS Athenas, its intercollegiate women’s athletic team comprised of students from Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, and Scripps Colleges, back to the field this fall. Together with her staff and coaches, CMS Athletics Director Erica Jasper has been busy making preparations to […]
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Donors Aid Scripps Students with Highest Level of Giving Since 2018
By Emily Glory Peters Thanks to the incredible dedication and support of Scripps alumnae, families, and friends, last year’s giving has resulted in the College’s most successful fundraising effort since 2018. “As a residential college, COVID-19-related losses from room and board, deferments, and the shift to remote learning all dealt significant blows to our budget,” […]
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Recent Return-to-Campus Updates for Scripps Students and Families
Residential life is the heartbeat of Scripps College—something cherished all the more after the last year and a half of remote learning. As the campus prepares to reopen for in-person instruction this fall, many students and their families have questions about what they should expect amid an ever-fluctuating COVID-19 environment. To help, we’ve compiled some helpful […]
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Scripps Parent Joe Mitchner P’21 Shares Why Volunteering is a Must
Joe Mitchner P’21, here with wife Erica and daughters Lexi and Corinne, was named H. Mac and Michele-Anne Riley P’18 Parent Volunteer of the Year By Emily Glory Peters When Joe Mitchner P’21 walked into his first Parent Leadership Council (PLC) event at Scripps, he already had plenty of extraprofessional claims on his time. A […]
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Parent Gift Helps Launch New Racial Justice and Equity Fellowship Program
Gift from Scripps Trustee Gale Picker P’14, P’19 will establish the new fellowship program for students and faculty. By Emily Glory Peters As part of the College’s ongoing antiracist initiatives, Scripps is pleased to announce the launch of its new Racial Justice and Equity Fellowship Program. Up to $4,000 will be available to qualifying Scripps […]
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