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New Position to Bolster Community Engagement GAMIZ TO ALIGN HMC MISSION WITH COMMUNITY NEEDS
A generous grant from The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation will allow Harvey Mudd College to bolster its engagement with local and global communities. The $150,000, two-year grant will fund the creation of a
director of community engagement position in the Dean of Students offi ce. The director will develop community partner- ships, support student-led, community-outreach efforts and assist faculty whose courses have a community-based learning component. “Our students and faculty have an interest in and are
already doing a lot of community outreach, but they have a real need for logistical support and someone to establish and maintain relationships with community partners,” said Dean of Students Maggie Browning. “The idea is to pull together all the existing efforts under one rubric and provide that sup- port. The key was getting dedicated staff.” The College selected HMC Homework Hotline Admin-
istrator Gabriela Gamiz to fi ll the new position. The hotline will continue to provide free, over-the-phone tutoring under her leadership. By combining funds from Parsons and the grant that established the Homework Hotline, Gamiz will be able to hire an assistant director to help with community engagement programs. Gamiz brings to the position a wealth of experience work-
ing with area K-12 schools and an understanding of the HMC community. She served as the fi rst administrator of the HMC Homework Hotline (see Page 5). She previously served as the associate director and then director of the HMC Upward Bound program’s Math and Science Center. Prior to HMC, Gamiz was the project director for a Title V grant to develop Hispanic-serving institutions in the Riverside Community College District, where she also served as an adjunct professor of education. “My main aspiration is to work closely with the HMC
community to align our efforts and direction with the Col- lege’s mission statement and our local and global communities’ needs,” said Gamiz. In her new role, she will advise and support engagement
activities such as Science Bus, on-campus tutoring, Homework Hotline and the Don and Dorothy Strauss Internship for Social Understanding. She will also support faculty programs such as MyCS, Games Network and Pathway to Computer Science with the Pomona Unifi ed School District. Her strategic goals include providing support to existing student and faculty community engagement, developing new
12 Har vey Mudd College SPRING 2013 Gabriela Gamiz
opportunities for engagement and working with the other undergraduate Claremont colleges and HMC’s institutional research staff to design, initiate and evaluate engagement efforts and assess their impact.
Other Recent Appointments Cross-cultural psychology expert Qutayba “Q” Abdullatif is the associate dean for student health and wellness. He previ- ously served as a consultant to the dean of students and as a visiting professor of psychology at Scripps College. Prior to Scripps, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Counseling and Psychological Services program at the University of California, San Diego. At Scripps and UCSD, Abdullatif created educa- tional programs and coordinated peer mentor groups focused on stress management, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse and social skills. His research focuses on college student mental health and adjustment, public speaking anxiety, men- toring and retention. He has more than a decade of experience counseling college students and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of South Florida. Last September, Timothy L. Hussey, APR, was named
assistant vice president of communications and marketing. He comes to HMC from Emory University, where he was the senior director of marketing and communications for the School of Law. Hussey brings 20 years of nonprofi t experience as a marketing, communications, public relations and media relations professional, primarily within higher education (Troy University, Georgia State University, Southern Polytech- nic State University, Agnes Scott College and Emory). Hussey oversees HMC’s seven-member communications and marketing team.
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