Scripps College
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| Motto | Incipit Vita Nova (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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"Here begins new life" |
| Type |
Private liberal arts college Women's college |
| Established | 1926 |
| Endowment | $295.8 million (2016) |
| President | Lara Tiedens |
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Academic staff
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122 (88 full-time)(2015) |
| Students | 989 (2015) |
| Undergraduates | 973 (2015) |
| Postgraduates | 16 (2015) |
| Location | Claremont, CA, USA |
| Campus | Suburban, 32 acres (12.9 ha) |
| Colors | Green and White |
| Athletics | NCAA Division III – SCIAC |
| Nickname | Stags (men) / Athenas (women) |
| Mascot | CMS Athena's La Semeuse ("she who sows") |
| Affiliations |
Claremont Colleges NAICU CLAC Annapolis Group |
| Website | scrippscollege.edu |
Scripps College, founded in 1926, is a liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California, United States, with an enrollment of 989 students. It is a member of the Claremont Colleges, a liberal arts consortium.
Scripps College was founded in 1926 by Ellen Browning Scripps, a philanthropist and prominent figure in the worlds of education, publishing, and women’s rights. According to Scripps, "the paramount obligation of a college is to develop in its students the ability to think clearly and independently, and the ability to live confidently, courageously, and hopefully." Soon after its founding, in 1927, the first dormitory was dedicated in memory of trustee Eleanor Joy Toll.
At the age of 89, Scripps founded the college as one of the institutions in the West dedicated to educating women for both professional careers and personal growth. Scripps’ “experiment in education” called for a setting with an artistic connection between buildings and garden landscape on an intimate scale.
The motto of the college is "Incipit Vita Nova" ("Here Begins New Life") from Dante's New Life.
Scripps College is frequently described as one of America’s most beautiful college campuses and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In its 2017 edition of The Best 379 Colleges, the Princeton Review cited the campus as the twelfth most beautiful in the United States, and has been corroborated by Forbes,U.S. News & World Report, The Huffington Post, and others.
Scripps is located in the center of the Claremont Colleges, surrounded by Harvey Mudd College to the north, Pitzer College to the east, Claremont McKenna College and Pomona College to the south, and Claremont Graduate University to the west. The original campus was designed by Gordon Kaufmann in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture. In general, his 1926 campus plan has been carefully preserved, with major vistas linking the central areas. The overall planting schemes and landscaping devised by Edward Huntsman-Trout are still followed.
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