News Releases (page 61)
Spotlight on Staff: Rima Shah, Director of the EmPOWER Center
This month heralds the opening of the 7C EmPOWER Center for survivors of sexual assault. The center provides free, confidential advocacy and support to 7C students impacted by sexual violence, dating/domestic violence, and stalking, as well as programs that will develop organically through collaborations between students, faculty, staff, and the newly appointed director of the center, Rima Shah.
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Chronicle of Higher Ed Notes Scripps College’s Required Diversity Courses
Scripps College is mentioned among U.S. colleges that has long required courses that address race, ethnicity, or cultural awareness in an article by a Chronicle of Higher Ed reporter who asks whether such courses can change a student’s views.
Read MoreMake 2016 Your Year to Shine
In 2016, may your intellect, passion, and ideas light up change and make the world a little brighter for everyone.
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Announcing the Passing of Stephanie Probst Rasines ’71
Dear Members of the Scripps College Community, I am sorry to announce that Scripps College Emerita Trustee Stephanie Probst Rasines ’71 died on January 9, 2016 from pancreatic cancer […]
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Spotlight on Faculty: Professor of Religious Studies Andrew Jacobs
Andrew Jacobs was appointed to the Mary W. Johnson ’35 and J. Stanley Johnson Chair Professorship in Humanities in 2015. Established in 1995, the professorship acknowledges Jacobs as a tenured senior faculty member and recognizes his outstanding teaching and contributions to the interdisciplinary humanities.
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BBC.com Highlights Scripps College as One of the World’s Most Beautiful Schools
BBC.com’s Culture column highlights Scripps College among one of the world’s most beautiful schools, not a ranking as per the customary statistical sorting kind, but a paean by author Jonathan Glancey to […]
Read MoreNiche.com Ranks Scripps College as #2 Best College Food in California
Niche.com’s 2016 Best College Food ranking is based on meal plan costs and student reviews.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Jih-Fei Cheng, Assistant Professor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Jih-Fei Cheng joins the Scripps faculty this fall as assistant professor in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Cheng completed his PhD in American studies and ethnicity, with an emphasis in visual studies, at the University of Southern California. His dissertation, AIDS and Its Afterlives: Race, Gender, and the Queer Radical Imagination, examines how experimental videos produced by AIDS activists during the 1980s until the mid-90s continue to politically intervene into contemporary popular media and social movements.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Claudia Arteaga
Claudia Arteaga comes to Scripps College from Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she is in the process of completing her PhD in Spanish literature. She previously earned her BA in linguistics and literature from Catholic University in Lima, Peru. Arteaga’s scholarship centers on Andean studies, in particular how political and social activism is expressed by Andean indigenous people through audiovisual media. We recently interviewed her to learn more about her work and what she’ll be focusing on at Scripps.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Assistant Professor of Art Kasper Kovitz
Originally from Vienna, Kasper Kovitz joins Scripps College as an Assistant Professor of Art after teaching for several years in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Kovitz is also an artist, and in his work he employs non-traditional materials—substances such as blueberry jam, dirt, and tree sap—to explore the concepts of borders, violence, and identity. His work has been included in exhibitions in Asia, Europe, and the United States, including at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, and ARCO Madrid.
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