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In the Media: Inside Higher Ed Highlights Institutional Leadership Advice from VP Binti Harvey
Inside Higher Ed featured Vice President for External Relations and Institutional Advancement Binti Harvey’s advice to new and aspiring higher education leaders. “Your most important relationships are those you build with the other members of the senior leadership team,” Harvey told attendees of a Council for Advancement and Support of Education conference.
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Spotlight on Academics: Professor Kim Drake Explores Disability in the Classroom and Beyond
Associate Professor of Writing and Chair of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Kim Drake began her scholarly career by focusing on protest writing and rhetoric, composition theory, and historically disenfranchised voices in American literature. But a few seminal events, particularly one in 1990 and another in 2014, plus the inspiration of her students, led to the addition of disability studies to her teaching, research, and activist repertoire.
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In the Media: Patrick Van Horn Casts Doubt on Effectiveness of Capital Buffer Regulations, Wall Street Journal Reports
The Wall Street Journal reported that capital buffer regulations may not be enough to stabilize banks in the long term, according to a paper co-authored by Assistant Professor of Economics Patrick van Horn.
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In the Media: PBS SoCal Highlights Myriam J. A. Chancy’s Ayiti Alive! Exhibition
PBS SoCal highlighted Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities and Interim Director of the Humanities Institute Myriam J. A. Chancy’s Ayiti Alive! photography exhibition.
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In the Media: Sean Flynn’s Health Care Research Forms Basis for California Senate Candidate’s Platform
Los Altos engineer Alex Glew, a candidate for the California State Senate, is basing his health care platform on Associate Professor of Economics Sean Flynn’s book The Cure That Works, per an interview with the Daily Post.
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College Theses Inspire Alumna’s Future Career
Ever since her time at Scripps, filmmaker Alle Hsu ’11 has been fascinated with intergenerational relationships in Chinese culture. For her Asian studies senior thesis, she drew from her great-grandfather’s Columbia University’s master’s thesis to compare the status of women in China in the 1920s to the status of modern Chinese women.
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In the Media: President Lara Tiedens Analyzes the Limitations of Need-Blind Admissions in Inside Higher Ed Op-Ed
President Lara Tiedens analyzes the limitations of need-blind admissions in an op-ed for Inside Higher Ed. Tiedens argues that while students’ financial situations shouldn’t matter during the admissions process, they’re a vital consideration when it comes to creating an equitable educational experience on campus.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Douglas Goodwin, Fletcher Jones Scholar in Computation and Visiting Assistant Professor in Media Studies
This fall, 11 new tenure-track faculty members joined Scripps College. As part of our ongoing series on Scripps’ faculty, the Office of Marketing and Communications recently sat down with Douglas Goodwin to discuss photography, social media, Big Data, and the holodeck from Star Trek.
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In the Media: Washington Post Op-Ed on Truth and Impeachment Cites Rivka Weinberg
In her latest piece on impeachment for the Washington Post, opinion writer Jennifer Rubin cited Professor of Philosophy Rivka Weinberg’s op-ed in the New York Times. Rubin placed Weinberg’s exploration of moral crimes in the context of her own analysis of Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s arguments in favor of impeachment.
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“Seventh Generation Thinking”: Director of Facilities Operations and Sustainability Lesley Swick Takes the Long View of Sustainable Change
Last fall, Scripps welcomed Lesley Swick as director of facilities operations and sustainability. Swick comes to Scripps after serving for over 10 years as a sustainability, Green Building, and LEED consultant, having worked with clients such as the Los Angeles County Metro Transit Authority, UCSD, Toyota, and the City of Santa Monica.
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