STRA TEGIC VISION
Milestones 2006–2011
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NSF names HMC a leader among private baccalaure- ate U.S. colleges in percentage of graduates who earn Ph.D.s in science and engineering
$25-million gift, pledged by Shanahans, largest gift in HMC’s 53-year history
Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, draws record crowds with talk “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”
Curriculum committee suggests modifying the Core in order to advance goals of strategic vision and to adapt to changing backgrounds and needs of students
Data from “Sustainability audits on the Claremont campuses” move College closer to determining “carbon footprint,” a basis for setting goals, measuring progress and conserving energy
$500,000 pledge by Malcolm ’67 and Cynthia Lewis establishes Patton and Claire Lewis Fellowship in Engineering Professional Practice
$800,000 NSF grant underwrites Department of Mathematics postdoctoral fellowship program focused on teaching and research
Plans for new teaching and learning building begin with support from Wayne Drinkward ’73, who funds and leads initial planning phase
Learning Studio funded with $750,000 gift from Fletcher Jones Foundation; gift enables educational technology infrastructure upgrade.
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THE
LEARNING STUDIO
BENEFITS BEYOND THE CALL
Better collaborator. Better listener. Better teacher. HMC Homework Hotline tutors proclaim these to be some of the personal benefits of helping local junior high and high school students with their math and science homework. Open since February 2010, the Homework Hotline employs around 20 HMC tutors, who are available Sunday through Thursday evenings from 6 to 10 p.m. dur- ing the school year. Student callers speak to tutors and have access to district-adopted mathematics textbooks, as well as supplemental math resources. Tutors seek to re- inforce math concepts, develop problem-solving skills and help callers become in- dependent learners. The program, funded by a $125,000 grant from donors James and Marilyn Simons, is based on the successful Homework Hotline model at Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology, an Indiana college that, like HMC, specializes in engineering, science and mathematics education. Rosalie Carlson ’13 is one of the 27 high-achieving math and science students who trained in over-the-phone tutoring. She works with about six other tutors dur- ing her two- to four-hour shift. “I see tutoring as a collaborative process,” she said. Often tutors work together on more difficult problems during a call. “A lot of what I have learned has helped me with the private tutoring that I do.” Alex Kohn ’13 said that tu- toring others has helped him be- come more patient. “It has even helped how I work on home- work with peers,” he said. Gabriela Gamiz-Gomez, for-
HMC named a Best Value Private College, Princeton Review
President Klawe named to board of
directors, Microsoft; becomes 10th member, second woman
President Klawe elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Andy Kearney ’13 is one of the original Homework Hotline tutors.
mer director of Upward Bound, a program for first-generation high school students, is Home- work Hotline administrator. Gamiz-Gomez said she has established good relationships with local schools and has ex- panded the number of schools served. “During our first year of operation, 2,278 students received guidance with their homework (80 percent of all tu- toring calls were for mathemat- ics, 10 percent for science and 10 percent for other subjects). In
April and May, we guided more than 300 student callers in solving mathematics and/or science homework questions.” The Homework Hotline averages 150 callers per month. Input from the tutors is helping to drive improvements to the Homework Hot- line, which will reopen Sept. 6. “The tutors witness the young students move from uncertainty to confidence,” said Gamiz-Gomez. “I’ve seen the program be just as transformative for them as it is for the callers.”
—Stephanie L. Graham
Nurturing and developing the whole person
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