page_title: Scripps College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Scripps College / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A row of elm trees at w:Scripps College
context_page_description: Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California. Founded in 1926, it had an enrollment of 1,109 students as of 2019. It is a member of the Claremont Colleges and is known for its extensive interdisciplinary core curriculum and historic campus.
  Scripps is an undergraduate institution with an emphasis in the humanities and in interdisciplinary education. It is widely regarded as the most prestigious women's college in the Western United States, and is consistently ranked the top such college by U.S. News and the other major rankings. The college is a top producer of Fulbright students.
context_section_description: Scripps College was founded in 1926, one year after the establishment of the Claremont Colleges consortium envisioned by James Blaisdell, as its third member, following coeducational Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University. The college was endowed with a gift from 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 first institutions in the West dedicated to educating women for both professional careers and personal growth. Scripps's "experiment in education" called for a setting with an artistic connection between buildings and garden landscape on an intimate scale.
  In 1968, students occupied a grove of olive trees to save them from being cut down to make space for the construction of the Humanities Building.
  In 2001, the college opened a centralized dining facility, Mallott Commons, ending the practice of serving meals in the residence halls.
  In 2014, the college began admitting transgender women.
  The motto of the college is "Incipit Vita Nova" ("Here Begins New Life") from Dante's New Life.
caption: Scripps' Elm Tree Lawn
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