News Releases (page 53)
Erica Tyron ’92 Keeps College Radio Station KSPC 88.7 FM Running
Erica Tyron ’92 shepherds the operations of KSPC 88.7 FM radio station, as well as decades of students who have worked there to learn the business and serve as DJs “spinning” cutting-edge music in the roughly 35-mile radius where the station is heard. As Director of College Radio at the station, Tyron’s leadership and passion for her work and the radio station’s role in the community is chronicled in a recent article in the Claremont Courier.
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Scripps College Tops World College Ranking List
Scripps College is ranked among the Top 10% of colleges in the 2016-2017 world college rankings, in the inaugural Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Ranking (WSJ/THE). The U.K.-based Times Higher Education magazine evaluated colleges around the globe on 15 metrics grouped into four “pillars” that include “Outcomes,” “Resources,” “Engagement,” and “Environment.”
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Catherine Collinson ’85 Receives Hero Award
The Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) honored Catherine Collinson ‘85, president of the nonprofit foundation Transamerica Institute and Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, with a Hero Award at the organization’s 20th anniversary event in Washington, D.C.
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On Stage: Japanese Theater Prints and Costumes
Tsukioka Kogyo, One Hundred Noh Plays: Shakkyo, 1922, Japanese wood block print, 15 in. x 10 1/8 in., Aoki Endowment, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Kabuki, Noh and Bunraku are types […]
Read More“A Sense of Place”: Scripps College 73rd Ceramic Annual
“In the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti,” wrote Melville. It is an individual experience of a place, only to be reached by traveling inward. The master ceramicists […]
Read MoreU.S.News & World Report Ranks Scripps College Among Top 25 Best Liberal Arts Colleges
U.S. News & World Report ranks Scripps College 23rd on its annual list of America’s best liberal arts colleges in 2017, up from 29th in 2016, as reported in the […]
Read MoreScripps College Announces Fall 2016 Humanities Institute Public Events
September 2016 marks the fifteen-year anniversary of President George W. Bush’s declaration that the United States was now engaged in a global “war on terror.” The fall 2016 Scripps College […]
Read MoreScripps College Offers Scholarship for High School Students in Upstate New York
In 2013, the family of Tia Palermo, a longtime resident of Livingston County, established a scholarship at Scripps College in her memory. Through her dedication and hard work, Tia supported […]
Read MoreScripps College Alum Alison Saar ’78 and Mom, Sister Join Historic Women’s Artist Flash Mob Event In L.A.
Artist Alison Saar ’78 joined her sister, Lezley Saar, and mom, Betye Saar, 90, to pose with scores of area female artists who gathered in downtown Los Angeles on August 28, 2016, for a group photograph organized by artist Kim Schoenstadt as a tribute to women in art.
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Scripps College Welcomes New Tenure-Track Faculty
Scripps College announces the hiring of 11 new tenure-track faculty members with the start of the 2016-17 academic year. Their expertise includes a wide range of areas such as development […]
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