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February 3, 2016

Results in the Classroom Earn Athenas and Stags Scholar All-America Team Honors

The reigning conference champion Claremont-Mudd-Scripps swimming and diving teams have had a great deal of success in and out of the pool over the years. The list of accolades continues to grow as both the Stags and the Athenas were recognized as Scholar All-America Teams by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) in an announcement on Jan. 27.

The award recognizes teams whose grade-point average totaled 3.0 or higher during the 2015 Fall semester. The men’s team compiled a GPA of 3.27, and the women’s average was 3.38 during that time period.

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January 29, 2016

Angela Davis Holds Scripps Students Spellbound During Scripps Presents Event

Angela Davis, a revolutionary author, scholar, and activist, speaks on radical activism at event hosted by Scripps Presents. Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reporter Imani Tate captured highlights from the talk. […]

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USN&WR Features Professor Vanessa Tyson on Clinton’s Lack of Connection with Millennial Voters

Vanessa Tyson, assistant professor of politics at 91¶¶Òõ, explains in an opinion article for U.S.News & World Report the challenges Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton faces with the youth […]

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January 22, 2016

Office of Public Events and Community Programs Launches Scripps Presents Events Series

Scripps Presents is committed to hosting eye-opening, mind-bending, genre-defying tête-à-têtes with iconic and emerging thinkers and doers, writers and performers, whose passion and perspective are changing the way we see the world.

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Spotlight on Staff: Rima Shah, Director of the EmPOWER Center

This month heralds the opening of the 7C EmPOWER Center for survivors of sexual assault. The center provides free, confidential advocacy and support to 7C students impacted by sexual violence, dating/domestic violence, and stalking, as well as programs that will develop organically through collaborations between students, faculty, staff, and the newly appointed director of the center, Rima Shah.

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January 21, 2016

Spotlight on Staff: Corrina Lesser, Director of Public Events and Community Programs

This past fall, 91¶¶Òõ welcomed Corrina Lesser as the new director of public events and community programs. Lesser was previously director of programming and planning for the Chicago Humanities Festival, where she helped curate annual programs as well as single events focused on cultivating public engagement with visual art, music, literature, history, film, performance, and other topics in the humanities.

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January 18, 2016

Chronicle of Higher Ed Notes 91¶¶Òõ’s Required Diversity Courses

91¶¶Òõ is mentioned among U.S. colleges that has long required courses that address race, ethnicity, or cultural awareness in an article by a Chronicle of Higher Ed reporter who asks whether such courses can change a student’s views.

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January 15, 2016

Make 2016 Your Year to Shine

In 2016, may your intellect, passion, and ideas light up change and make the world a little brighter for everyone.

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Announcing the Passing of Stephanie Probst Rasines ’71

Dear Members of the 91¶¶Òõ Community,   I am sorry to announce that 91¶¶Òõ Emerita Trustee Stephanie Probst Rasines ’71 died on January 9, 2016 from pancreatic cancer […]

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Laspa Action Grants: Raquel Selcer ’17

In her hometown of Humboldt County, California, Raquel Selcer ’17 worked with Planned Parenthood to create a peer health educator program that would provide better access to healthcare information to the increasing Latina/o population.

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