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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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