As we look back on this past year, one marked by significant uncertainty and challenge, we on the Equity and Justice Leadership Team are struck by how we as a community have each experienced these times. For some among us, navigating uncertainty has become unwelcome but familiar. For others, this feels entirely new and disorienting.
What unites us, however, is far stronger than what separates us. Though every challenge, we’ve demonstrated our commitment to supporting one another. We’ve adapted, connected, and extended compassion when it was needed most.
As we move forward, let us remember that our strength lies in our connections with one another. Whatever uncertainties tomorrow may bring, we’ve got each other.
Committee on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (CIDE)
Under President Marcus-Newhall’s leadership, the Committee on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (CIDE)聽is charged with proposing initiatives, policies, and practices that will enhance public dialogue on gender identity, ethnicity, religion, race, diversity, and other topics critical to the future of the College and facilitating campus conversations on race, equity, and inclusion. The 2024-2025 CIDE monitored the pulse of the community, provided insight on how faculty, staff, and students were responding to current events, and work shopped ideas to engage and build community across campus.
Spotlight
This April, the Equity and Justice Leadership team, in partnership with the Office of the President, hosted the final Community Gathering of the 2024-2025 academic year. Attendees were asked to share “what does equity mean to you?” The above word cloud is a collection of our community’s thoughts on the importance of equity. For those of you who were unable to attend, we invite you to consider not just what equity means to you, but also how we as community members can always center equity and justice in the work and learning that we do here at Scripps.
Updates
2024-2025 Student Racial Justice and Equity Fellows
The Racial Justice and Equity Fellowship Program provides grants for research, internships, and community-engagement projects designed to advance scholarship and explore topics relevant to the following: racial justice; inequality; equity; criminal justice reform; intersectional, interracial, and intraracial violence; community-engaged projects; and related areas.
2025-2026聽Student Fellows
Alyssa Hernandez ’27
Bridging United Families for Justice with the Claremont Colleges
Anna Jea ’28
Citizen Countersurveillance in the Deportation Era.
Sarah Muller ’27
Measuring Migrant Youth Hope as a Dynamic Process
Jannat Verma ’26
Punjabi Yaar, Texas De Naal Pyar