As one of the five undergraduate colleges in the Claremont Colleges system, Scripps College offers access to a Hillel and Chabad and a campus rabbi.

Litigation & Investigations

In March 2025, it was announced that the Brandeis Center, ADL and Arnold & Porter had filed a federal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against Scripps College, alleging that Scripps repeatedly abandoned Jewish and Israeli students targeted by antisemitic harassment. This led to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opening an investigation into the complaint.

What’s Happening on Campus?

On October 7, 2024, in commemoration of Hamas’ murder, torture, rape, and kidnapping of Israelis on October 7, 2023, over 400 students from the Claremont Colleges (including a substantial number of students from Scripps) participated in an anti-Israel walkout and occupation of Carnegie Hall at Pomona College. A planned walk-out at 10:07 a.m. accompanied the October 7, 2024 occupation of Carnegie Hall. Notwithstanding the Scripps policy prohibiting class cancellation in the absence of emergencies, some faculty chose to cancel classes. Many Jewish students left Scripps’s campus on October 7, 2024 and missed their classes to avoid being “outed” as Zionists when they chose not to celebrate the mass murder of Jews by joining the walk-out.

University Policies and Responsive Action

In November 2023, President Marcus-Newhall released a statement about the rise of antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents in the world and called on the Scripps community to abide by conduct policies and uphold campus values.

As one of the five undergraduate colleges in the Claremont Colleges system, Scripps College offers access to a Hillel and Chabad and a campus rabbi.

Litigation & Investigations

In March 2025, it was announced that the Brandeis Center, ADL and Arnold & Porter had filed a federal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against Scripps College, alleging that Scripps repeatedly abandoned Jewish and Israeli students targeted by antisemitic harassment. This led to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opening an investigation into the complaint.

What’s Happening on Campus?

On October 7, 2024, in commemoration of Hamas’ murder, torture, rape, and kidnapping of Israelis on October 7, 2023, over 400 students from the Claremont Colleges (including a substantial number of students from Scripps) participated in an anti-Israel walkout and occupation of Carnegie Hall at Pomona College. A planned walk-out at 10:07 a.m. accompanied the October 7, 2024 occupation of Carnegie Hall. Notwithstanding the Scripps policy prohibiting class cancellation in the absence of emergencies, some faculty chose to cancel classes. Many Jewish students left Scripps’s campus on October 7, 2024 and missed their classes to avoid being “outed” as Zionists when they chose not to celebrate the mass murder of Jews by joining the walk-out.

University Policies and Responsive Action

In November 2023, President Marcus-Newhall released a statement about the rise of antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents in the world and called on the Scripps community to abide by conduct policies and uphold campus values.