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Scripps College Academy Turns 20
The program is Scripps’ answer to a problem with which the entire field of higher education has grappled for many years: how to support low-income, first-generation high schoolers who aspire to attend college but struggle to get a foot in the door.
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Nancy Neiman Receives Fulbright-Nehru Award
Professor of Politics Nancy Neiman received the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, which will support her continued research into food sovereignty movements.
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Olive Harvest’s Return Creates Organic Space for Education, Community, and Sustainability
On November 5, Scripps hosted its traditional Olive Harvest, an event that furthers the College’s sustainability efforts by utilizing the campus’s edible plants as a food source. More than 200 students, faculty, staff, and members of the surrounding Claremont community harvested approximately 700 pounds of olives.
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In the Media: Nancy Neiman Examines the Intersection of Markets and Social Justice on Academic Minute Podcast
Professor of Politics Nancy Neiman examined the intersection of markets and social justice on the Academic Minute podcast. When markets operate in the context of strong community norms, she said, “market actors are incentivized to make decisions that are in the best interest of the community.”
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Scripps Faculty Take Over WAMC’s Academic Minute
Scripps College faculty will be featured daily during the week of February 1, 2021, on WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s Academic Minute, a daily podcast dedicated to condensed updates on groundbreaking research.
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Olive and Well: College Revives Beloved Agrarian Tradition
They are strong and have a lot of character, and though they aren’t generally temperamental, they have been known to snap when pushed too hard. These are the olive trees of Scripps College.
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