Talk:Scripps College

Unsourced list of notable people
The following is almost entirely unsourced; many of these are living people and we don't make claims about living people without a source. Moving here per WP:PRESERVE:


 * Noted people


 * Presidents
 * Ernest Jaqua (1926–1942)
 * Mary Kimberly Shirk (1942–1943) -- acting president
 * Frederick Hard (1944–1964)
 * Mark Curtis (1965–1976)
 * John H. Chandler (1976–1989)
 * E. Howard Brooks (1989–1990)
 * Nancy Y. Bekavac (1990–2007) -- first female president
 * Frederick "Fritz" Weis (2007–2009)
 * Lori Bettison-Varga (2009–2015)


 * Notable faculty
 * Hartley Burr Alexander - iconographer, educator, and philosopher
 * Ken Gonzales-Day - artist
 * Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz - historian
 * Hao Huang - pianist, music scholar
 * Jun Kaneko - artist
 * Gail Kubik - musician
 * Nathan M. Pusey - historian and 24th president of Harvard University
 * Michael S. Roth - historian, author, curator; 16th president of Wesleyan University; 8th president of California College of the Arts
 * Millard Sheets - artist
 * Paul Soldner - artist
 * Albert Stewart - sculptor


 * Notable alumnae
 * Anne Hopkins Aitken - one of the modern mothers of Zen Buddhism in the western world
 * Serena Altschul - journalist
 * China Chow - actor and model
 * Nonie Creme, Co-Founder and Former Creative Director, Butter London
 * Winslow Eliot - author
 * Marsha Genensky - singer, Anonymous 4
 * Gabrielle Giffords - United States Representative of Congressional District number 8 of Arizona
 * Elizabeth 'Liz' (Goodman) Logelin - the inspiration for The Liz Logelin Foundation and the best-selling memoir, Two Kisses for Maddy by Matthew Logelin
 * Molly Ivins - columnist; attended Scripps for 1962–1963, then transferred to Smith College
 * Hannah-Beth Jackson - politician
 * Hon. Judith N. Keep - first female judge and first female Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
 * Mary Parker Lewis - politician
 * Suzanne Muchnic - arts writer and art critic
 * Edith Pattou - author
 * Melanie Rawn - author
 * Ellen Rosenblum - Oregon Attorney General (first female Attorney General in Oregon's history), attended Scripps College before earning her undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon in 1971.
 * Rosemary Radford Ruether - American feminist scholar and theologian
 * Alison Saar - sculptor, painter, installation artist and Guggenheim Fellow
 * Yoshiko Shimada - performance artist, video artist, installation artist, feminist activist
 * Karen I. Tse - Human rights defender and social entrepreneur
 * Elizabeth Turk - sculptor and MacArthur Fellow
 * Sally Warner - author

-- Jytdog (talk) 16:57, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Four years out, I'm not sure this was the right move. This took a massive chopping block to the list, when there really wasn't reason to suspect any of these entries were false, and many could have been confirmed just by clicking through to the biography pages. There hasn't been anyone monitoring the page to restore these since, until I just recently started building it back. It would have served readers much better to have just tagged it for references. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 21:07, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

To Do Items for this Article
Some suggestions of potential areas of improvement for anyone who wants to expand this article:
 * Lengthen the intro
 * Greatly expand the history section, which currently only covers the college's founding and very recent past
 * Discuss some of Scripps' traditions
 * Expand the student life section with information about the racial/geographic/sexual orientation/etc. demographics of Scripps students, and additional significant campus organizations (Pomona's article has some information that can be copied, although the extracurricular scene at Scripps is a bit different and Pomona's section on clubs periodically gets bloated when someone adds tons of information about a minor club).
 * Convert the athletics section from bullets to prose, and note which CMS teams are strongest
 * Expand and cite the alumni section

- Sdkb (talk) 04:40, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi self from two years ago. Adding on, there are several Scripps-related pages waiting to be written, including Ernest Jaqua (see ), Lara Tiedens, List of Scripps College people, and Motley Coffeehouse. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 10:34, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Athletic facilities
The list of athletic facilities is not referenced in a substantial way and it is unclear whether these buildings have any historical or cultural significance. Simply listing names upon names of buildings is inappropriate for an encyclopedia. I propose deleting these sections if nothing changes. Melchior2006 (talk) 15:40, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The reference at the end appears to be for everything, but I agree with you about encyclopedic relevance. As an alternative, I'd suggest moving the info to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 19:37, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * that was a good suggestion, thanks. I moved the section. Melchior2006 (talk) 19:45, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Studies
I find this section to be a combination between advertising and course catalogue. The Core Curriculum (CC) is not really that dazzling as a sequence of courses, and there is no information about how influential it really is. If is truly important to Scripps's identity, then shouldn't there be a reference to statements about that? Or something about its history? Compare the Honors System at Swarthmore College. That is a high-profile option, there are lots of articles about it in the literature about higher education. If that kind of supporting information is not available for CC, then I propose deleting this section. Melchior2006 (talk) 18:39, 16 February 2023 (UTC)


 * @Melchior2006, I added a quick reference to the Fiske Guide to Colleges, which mentions the core curriculum in its bolded intro paragraph on Scripps, and devotes a full paragraph to it later in the two-page entry. That's one justification for it being important to Scripps' identity. I'd expect there to be plenty of additional references if one did a deeper search. That said, I'm not sure that the Core Curriculum should be a subsection, rather than just integrated into a section on the academics/curriculum, and I certainly don't think it should have its own article (as at Columbia). &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 19:20, 16 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that was a good idea. I relocated it and streamlined the passage a bit. --Melchior2006 (talk) 19:31, 16 February 2023 (UTC)