Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1926 as a member of the Claremont Colleges, and is widely regarded as the most prestigious women's college in the Western United States.[1] Many notable individuals have been affiliated with the college as graduates, non-graduating attendees, faculty, staff, or administrators.
Scripps has graduated classes of students.[2] As of the semester, the college enrolls approximately students.
As of the semester, Scripps employs faculty members. The college has had nine official presidents and several interim presidents, including the current interim president, Amy Marcus-Newhall.[3]
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| Name | Class year | Notability | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Zen Buddhist in the Harada-Yasutani lineage | [4] | ||
| Exchange student 1932–1934 | Olympic gold medalist fencer who competed for Nazi Germany despite being Jewish | [5] | ||
| 1953 | Founder, Friends of the Columbia Gorge | [6] | ||
| Attended 1962–1963 | Newspaper columnist | [7] [8] [9] | ||
| 1973 | White House Counsel for Bill Clinton | [10] | ||
| Attended 1975–1976< | -- graduated 1977 from Stanford --> | Novelist | [11] [12] | |
| 1978 | Sculptor and installation artist known for work on black identity | [13] | ||
| 1983 | Sculpture artist | [14] | ||
| 1987 | Academic and president of Thomas Edison State University | [15] | ||
| 1993 | Democratic U.S. Representative for Arizona's 8th district, gun control advocate |
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| Name | Active tenure | Notability | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927–1939 | Philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet, and iconographer | [16] | ||
| 1932–1955 | Artist and designer | [17] [18] | ||
| 1939–1965 | Sculptor | [19] | ||
| 1941–1962 | Concert pianist, composer, arranger, opera director | [20] | ||
| 1983–2000 | Historian, university administrator, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair, President of Wesleyan University | [21] | ||
| 1994–present | Concert pianist, composer, playwright, Fulbright Scholar to Hungary, Bessie Bartlett Frankel Chair | [22] | ||
| 1995–present | Conceptual artist and historian, a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fletcher Jones Chair | [23] | ||
| 1996-2004 | Poet and professor of English and Humanities | [24] | ||
| 2000–present | Art historian | [25] | ||
| 2008–present | Haitian-Canadian-American writer, fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair | [26] | ||
| 2012–present | Chicana artivista (artist/activist) musician, feminist music theorist | [27] | ||
| 2015–present | Political scientist and politician | [28] |
| Name | Tenure | Academic expertise | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ernest Jaqua | 1926–1942 | Theology | ||
| – | Mary Kimberly Shirk | 1942–1944 | |||
| 2 | Frederick Hard | 1944–1964 | |||
| 3 | Mark Curtis | 1964–1976 | |||
| 4 | John H. Chandler | 1976–1989 | |||
| 5 | E. Howard Brooks | 1989–1990 | |||
| 6 | Nancy Y. Bekavac | 1990–2007 | |||
| 7 | Frederick Weis | 2007–2009 | |||
| 8 | Lori Bettison-Varga | 2009–2015 | Geology | ||
| – | Amy Marcus-Newhall | 2015–2016 | |||
| 9 | Lara Tiedens | 2016–2020 | |||
| – | Amy Marcus-Newhall | 2020–2021 | |||
| 10 | Susan Keen | 2021-2022 | |||
| 11 | Amy Marcus-Newhall | 2022-Present |
| – | Denotes interim president |