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January 22, 2016

Office of Public Events and Community Programs Launches Scripps Presents Events Series

Scripps Presents is committed to hosting eye-opening, mind-bending, genre-defying tÃªte-Ã -tÃªtes with iconic and emerging thinkers and doers, writers and performers, whose passion and perspective are changing the way we see the world.

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.

January 21, 2016

Spotlight on Staff: Corrina Lesser, Director of Public Events and Community Programs

This past fall, Scripps College welcomed Corrina Lesser as the new director of public events and community programs. Lesser was previously director of programming and planning for the Chicago Humanities Festival, where she helped curate annual programs as well as single events focused on cultivating public engagement with visual art, music, literature, history, film, performance, and other topics in the humanities.

January 18, 2016

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.

January 15, 2016

Make 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.

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 […]

Laspa Action Grants: Raquel Selcer ’17

In her hometown of Humboldt County, California, Raquel Selcer ’17 worked with Planned Parenthood to create a peer health educator program that would provide better access to healthcare information to the increasing Latina/o population.

January 12, 2016

Spotlight on Faculty: Andrew Jacobs, Mary W. Johnson ’35 and J. Stanley Johnson Professorship in Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies

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.

January 7, 2016

Professor of Anthropology Lara Deeb’s New Book Featured

Lara Deeb, professor of anthropology at Scripps College, was interviewed by Jadaliyya about her new book, “Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East,” with co-author Jessica Winegar, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University.

December 23, 2015

Top 10 Media Mentions in 2015

Scripps College generates close to 5,000 media stories a year about its faculty, students, and alumnae. These are just 10 of the breakthrough stories that garnered significant Internet, social media, or traditional media fame for Scripps in 2015.