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STRATEGIC VISION: INNOVATION, LEADERSHIP & IMPACT | EXPERIENTIAL & INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING | EXCELLENCE & DIVERSITY | WHOLE-PERSON DEVELOPMENT | GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT & INFORMED SOCIETAL CONTRIBUTIONS | INFRASTRUCTURE & RESOURCES IMPROVEMENT


Achieving Excellence Through Strategic Initiatives


New Core Launched The faculty Curriculum Commit- tee launched a new Core curriculum that reflects the changing backgrounds and needs of students. It provides rigorous broad- based knowledge and experience and creates flexibility to pursue intellectual passions, new interdisciplinary electives or foreign language. The faculty have also enthusiastically integrated writing instruction into the new Core.


Teaching and Learning Building The HMC Board of Trustees voted Jan. 29, 2011 to proceed with the construction of the teaching and learning building, the first academic space to be erected on campus since the Olin Science Center (1993). The board’s historic vote represents the culmination of careful planning, community discussion and a commitment to edu- cate STEM leaders. At a cost of approximately $43 million, the 70,000-square-foot academic building will provide flexible and modern classrooms, lecture halls, faculty offices and public spaces. Completion is scheduled for fall 2013.


HMC Reaccredited The Western Association of Schools and Colleges affirmed HMC’s reaccreditation for the maximum length possible—10 years—and praised the College for its engaged ap- proach to assessment. The WASC team stated “Passionate com- mitment to the quality of teaching and learning is inscribed in the DNA of the College.”


Making Herstory While many science and engineering schools have struggled to recruit and retain women students, the successful enrollment program at HMC has gained momentum in recent years. The incoming class of 2014 was 52 percent wom- en out of 197 students (102 females and 95 males) and was the first time in HMC’s 55-year history that the incoming first-year class comprised more women than men.


New Learning Studio Designed to encourage faculty and student interaction and to support collaborative and cross-disci- plinary learning, the Sprague Center Learning Studio opened in fall 2010. It was made possible by a $750,000 grant from The Fletcher Jones Foundation and additional funding from the Ar- thur Vining Davis Foundation and HMC’s Computing and In- formation Services. “The Learning Studio provides a high-profile ‘anchor’ space in the heart of the academic end of campus, which will have a significant positive impact on teaching and learning,” said President Maria Klawe.


Local and International Community Engagement HMC’s continued emphasis on service in the community contin- ued through the activities of President Klawe (Math for America), faculty members and students. The Department of Mathematics


hosted the 12th annual HMC Mathematics Conference, which focused on how to broaden participation in the mathemati- cal sciences. A Sacred SISTAHS math and science conference helped empower young African American girls by introducing them to successful academic and professional role models. The Society of Women Engineers student club introduced young girls to the engineering discipline, and student mentors helped coach a local robotics team to a first-place finish at the Los Ange- les Regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition. HMC’s Homework Hotline, which began its second year during 2010, expanded to meet the math and science tutoring needs of the community, with 2,298 calls completed during 2010–11. A team of students and physics Professor Peter Saeta returned to Kenya to work on a water quality improvement project for a secondary school. A seven-member HMC team, led by HMC engineering Profes- sor Adrian Hightower and biology Professor Donald McFarlane (Pomona College), installed a micro-hydroelectric station along a stream in a Costa Rican nature reserve in Costa Rica. De- signed to be environmentally friendly, the student-built station will produce an estimated 48 kWh of energy daily and poten- tially serve as a model other ecology centers can emulate.


“Si” for Summer Institute Summer Institute (SI), a pro- gram to help build students’ academic, personal, professional and leadership abilities, continues to provide a supportive social network within the incoming class as well as between students, faculty and staff. SI has the added benefit of helping advance the number of diverse people entering the STEM fields by encourag- ing and supporting traditionally underrepresented students, in- cluding women, ethnic minorities, students from rural areas and those who are first in their families to attend college. The program is gaining popularity; for the first time, it was oversubscribed.


The Place for Undergraduate Research One of HMC’s strategic vision goals is to offer a research experience for every interested student. A grant by the The National Science Foun- dation brought HMC closer to realizing this goal. The NSF’s $367,461 award, which supports undergraduate computer sci- ence research through 2013, is a 10-week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) that engages students in stimulating research and encourages them to pursue graduate study in com- puter science. HMC’s popular Clinic Program, now in its 41st year, hosted


projects from 35 industry partners. Students from every major participated in research with a faculty advisor or as part of a class project during the school year or during summer. Many of these projects will be published and some will lead to patents.


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