Head of Scripps College will leave post June 30

Nancy Y. Bekavac, president of Scripps College in Claremont for 17 years, announced Wednesday that she will step down June 30. Bekavac, 59, was the first woman president of the liberal arts school for women and is credited with helping to increase its enrollment from 600 students to 850 and in leading successful fundraising and campus construction efforts.

An attorney with a law degree from Yale, Bekavac said she has no immediate plans for another job. The school, which is part of the Claremont Colleges consortium, is expected to appoint an interim president while conducting a national search for a permanent replacement.