Talk:Scripps College

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Unsourced list of notable people[edit]

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)[1]
Notable faculty
Notable alumnae

References

  1. ^ "Scripps College Announces Departure of President Lori Bettison-Varga". Scripps College. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  2. ^ Hoder, Randye. "'Money Is Only Actually Fun If You're Already Happy'". TIME.

-- Jytdog (talk) 16:57, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 21:07, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

To Do Items for this Article[edit]

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)[reply]

Hi self from two years ago. Adding on, there are several Scripps-related pages waiting to be written, including Ernest Jaqua (see [1]), Lara Tiedens, List of Scripps College people, and Motley Coffeehouse. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 10:34, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Athletic facilities[edit]

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)[reply]

@Melchior2006: 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. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 19:37, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
that was a good suggestion, thanks. I moved the section. Melchior2006 (talk) 19:45, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Studies[edit]

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)[reply]

@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). {{u|Sdkb}} talk 19:20, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, that was a good idea. I relocated it and streamlined the passage a bit. --Melchior2006 (talk) 19:31, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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