Campus Life (page 4)


March 27, 2010

Scripps College Inaugurates Lori Bettison-Varga as Eighth President

Today, before an audience of hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and alumnae and witnessed by delegates from more than 60 institutions of higher learning, Scripps College inaugurated Lori Bettison-Varga as its eighth president.

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January 27, 2010

Scripps College Awarded $3.5 Million for the Ceramic Arts

Scripps College has received a $3.5 million commitment from Joan and David Lincoln to enhance and expand the study of the ceramic arts at Scripps College.

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July 28, 2009

Scripps offers “best of both worlds”

Scripps College is one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. In its popular guidebook, The Best 371 Colleges, The Princeton Review praises the school for its academics and campus beauty and quotes extensively from Scripps students. Read what they have to say.

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May 21, 2009

Seventeenth Consecutive Year of Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internships at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery

For the 17th consecutive year, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College has been awarded a $12,500 grant from the Getty Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the J. Paul Getty Trust, to support three paid, full-time, 10-week summer internships.

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April 15, 2009

Scripps’ CIW Prison Garden Project is Contest Finalist

Scripps seniors Adrian Hodos and Hannah Segal and their entry, “The CIW Prison Garden Project,” have been selected as one of ten finalists in the Mountain Dew ‘Energize Your Community’ Contest — and they need your votes to win.

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March 6, 2009

Scripps Bolsters Japanese Art and Literature Collection

Scripps College has received 48 recently published books on Japanese arts and literature from The Nippon Foundation, to be housed in Denison Library.

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July 1, 2008

New Elm Trees Arrive on Campus

Loaded onto flatbed trucks in groups of three, 24 Princeton elms traveled from Sunol, Calif., down the Grapevine on I-5, and arrived on the Scripps College campus in early morning to mark the first day of the College’s new academic year.

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March 26, 2008

Andy Warhol Photographs Awarded to Scripps’ Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery

A treasure trove of Andy Warhol’s work has been offered to the Williamson Gallery of Scripps College: 100 Polaroid photos and 50 gelatin silver prints, valued at close to $150,000. The works were created roughly between 1978 and 1985.

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March 24, 2008

Perfect for Opening the Mind

Scripps’ courtyards are featured in an audio slide show created by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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March 11, 2008

Scripps College Receives Top Marks in Housing

Scripps College received an A+ grade in Campus Housing from College Prowler, the largest publisher of college content in the United States. With only two percent of colleges being honored with an A+ grade in each category, Scripps College is among an elite group in the 2008 rankings.

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