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The arts and humanities will always be at Scripps’ core, even as the context, tools, and methodology for nurturing critical thinking, conversation, and the exploration of ideas shift over time.

In the next decade, we will employ innovative strategies to take advantage of 21st-century approaches to education while preserving what is best about our traditions.

Current Initiatives

Leadership Development Program

Establish a progressive leadership development program that builds a pipeline of skilled, proficient, culturally adept leaders who will further enhance Scripps’ academic and operational excellence and strengthen its culture. The Office of Human Resources launched this program as a pilot in fall of 2022, and the first cohort of leaders was established this spring and is currently ongoing.
Updates

Curricular Community Engagement

To be successful leaders and engaged citizens, our students must participate in productive work with the broader community and develop the skills to think innovatively about the challenges facing members of our local community and our world, so that as graduates they can fully contribute to society through leadership, service, integrity, and creativity. Given the expertise of our faculty, the academic strength of our students, and our proximity to both the Los Angeles area and the Inland Empire, we are ideally positioned to provide the bridge between societal needs and interdisciplinary academic knowledge through critical, creative, and innovative thinking. This curricular community engagement initiative focuses on development of community engagement courses and strengthening existing and launching new partnerships and collaborations with local organizations.

Scripps-Pitzer Science

Articulate and amplify the strengths of the 61´«Ã½and Pitzer Colleges science program and define prospective academic and programmatic opportunities the two-college partnership will enable for students, faculty, and the broader scientific community.