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Tours

1. Scripps Tour

   Frequently touted as one of the country’s most beautiful, our campus is situated at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains

   Stops

   1. Janet Jacks Balch Hall

      Address: 1030 Columbia Ave, PMB 200

      • Admission
      • APESF (Alumnae & Parent Engagement, The Scripps Fund)
      • Classrooms/Faculty Offices
      • Dean of Faculty
      • Dean of Students
      • President
      • Registrar
      • Student Accounts
      • SAGE (Study Abroad and Global Education)

      
      Balch Hall was the gift of Mr. And Mrs. Allan C. Balch of Los Angeles. This building was completed in the fall of 1929. The architect was Sumner Hunt of Los Angeles. The architecture of this academic building is more formal and severe than that of the dormitories, though the essential monotony of a long row of office windows on the east side is softened by the use of simulated arches the length of the wall. Courts and loggias are almost classic in their simplicity. Mr. And Mrs. Balch engaged Mr. George Reynolds of Los Angeles to furnish Balch Hall. In the Auditorium the benches are of Australian gumwood, and furnishings include equipment for dramatic performances.

   2. Elizabeth Hubert Malott Commons

      Address: 1030 Columbia Ave.

      • Meeting Rooms
      • Servery Dining Rooms
      • Staff Lounge
      • Career Planning & Resources
      • Laspa Center for Leadership
      • Mailroom
      • Motley Coffeehouse
      • Seal Court
      • Student Store
      • Student Union

      
      The Malott Commons is open seven days a week when school is in session, with breakfast, lunch and dinner served Monday through Friday, and brunch and dinner on weekends.

   3. Vita Nova Hall

      Address: 385 E. Ninth St.

      • Human Resources Office
      • Faculty Offices
      • Intercollegiate Women's Studies Center
      • Planning and Research

       

      Built in 1957, Vita Nova Hall hosts several different conference halls, a library, copy center, faculty offices and Human Resources.

       

      Vita Nova Hall connects with the Mary Wig Johnson Courtyard.

   4. Bette Cree Edwards Humanities Building

      Address: 981 N. Amherst Ave.

      • Faculty Lounge/Classrooms/Faculty Offices
      • Clark Humanities Museum
      • Humanities Auditorium
      • Katharine Howard Miller '55 Wing
      • Writing Center

      
      The Humanities Building was opened in 1970 to serve as the principal classroom facility for the campus. The architect, John Carl Warneke, combined modern forms with elements of the traditional Mediterranean-style architecture of the 1920s buildings, such as the white stucco walls and red tile roof. The Humanities Building now includes an auditorium that seats 200, 14 classrooms, a slide library, a faculty lounge around which are 12 offices, and a large gallery called the Clark Humanities Museum and Study Room, in memory of Wilson Warner Clark and Elizabeth Dooly Clark, parents of the donor, Elizabeth Clark Pease '36.

       

      The Humanities Building was tailored for teaching the interdisciplinary Humanities Program, which has been at the core of the Scripps curriculum since the 1920s, evolving over the decades.

   5. Office of Student Engagement (OSE)

      Location: 400 E. Twelfth St.

      Frankel-Routt Annex

       

      The Office of Student Engagement (OSE) offers a variety of programs, services and resources for the entire student body. Our mission is simple: to develop, promote and support social, cultural and educational co-curricular activities and programs through the promotion of co-curricular involvement.