3.1 Faculty Organization

At Scripps, academic deisciplines are mostly organized into four areas, namely 1) Arts, 2) Letters, 3) Science and Math, and 4) Social Sciences. Many departments are grouped into one of these four areas for purposes related to planning, curriculum, budget and personnel. Other departments are interdisciplinary. The Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities is a program supported by disciplinary faculty from these four areas as well as faculty from interdisciplinary departments and programs. The Core Director is elected by the faculty for a three-year term.

Each department or program has a chair, appointed by the Dean of the Faculty in consultation with members of the department. All chairs have responsibility in three areas: curriculum, budget, and personnel. The department/program chair is a liaison with the Dean of the Faculty and with faculty committees. The department is especially concerned with the structure of the major, the courses to be offered in the field, and cooperation through the field committees with the other Claremont Colleges. It is the responsibility of the department chair to ensure that procedures and deadlines for senior theses are published and distributed. The department chair will also make recommendations concerning staffing to the appropriate college committees and authorities, coordinate searches for part-time faculty members and cooperate with the FEC during the search procedures to fill full-time positions. The primary responsibility of the chair is to ensure that departmental business is completed. In addition, the chair will prepare the departmental budget request for the following year, and supervise the current budget, authorizing and controlling expenditures and monitoring monthly supervisors’ reports.

Meetings of the Scripps Faculty are called by the Dean of the Faculty or by written communication to the Dean of the Faculty by ten members of the faculty. At special meetings called by faculty members, no business may be discussed or acted upon except that for which the meeting is called. The Scripps Faculty meet several times each semester, usually on Thursdays at 4:15 p.m.

All faculty members irrespective of rank, the librarian, the director of the Williamson Gallery and such other persons as shall have been appointed to membership in the faculty by the Board of Trustees, shall be members of the Scripps Faculty. Only continuing (defined as multi-year contract) full-time faculty, the librarian, the director of the Williamson Gallery, and adjunct faculty in and after their fourteenth year of service shall be voting members of the Scripps Faculty. A quorum shall be one more than one-half of the voting membership of the Scripps Faculty. Proxy voting is not permitted.

Department Chairs
and Interdisciplinary/Intercollegiate Program Chairs
Spring Semester 2024

Arts

Letters

Social Sciences

Natural Sciences

Interdisciplinary Departments/Programs

Intercollegiate Programs