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Director to Boost HMC鈥檚 Community Connections

A generous grant from The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation will allow 无忧视频 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 College鈥檚 Dean of Students office. The director will develop community partnerships, support student-led, community-outreach efforts and assist faculty whose courses have a community-based learning component.

鈥淥ur 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,鈥� said Dean of Students Maggie Browning. 鈥淭he idea is to pull together all the existing efforts under one rubric and provide that support. The key was getting dedicated staff.鈥�

Gabriela Gamiz-Gomez

The College has selected HMC Homework Hotline Administrator Gabriela Gamiz-Gomez to fill 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-Gomez will be able to hire an assistant director to help her with all community engagement programs.

鈥淕abriela has done an amazing job with Homework Hotline. The students and the faculty adore her, and she has such great ties with the wider community,鈥� said Browning. 鈥淪he doesn鈥檛 put herself out front and wave the flag; she works in the background and makes everything that we鈥檙e doing better.鈥�

Gamiz-Gomez brings to the position a wealth of experience working with area K-12 schools, an understanding of the HMC community and much creativity and energy. She served as the first administrator of the HMC Homework Hotline, a free, over-the-phone, tutoring service for fourth through 12th graders. She previously served as the associate director and then director of the HMC Upward Bound program鈥檚 Math and Science Center. Prior to HMC, Gamiz-Gomez 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. She earned her bachelor鈥檚 in psychology from Pomona College and her master鈥檚 in education from Claremont Graduate University.

鈥淢y main aspiration is to work closely with the HMC community to align our efforts and direction with the College鈥檚 mission statement and our local and global communities鈥� needs,鈥� said Gamiz-Gomez.

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 Unified School District.

Her strategic goals include providing support to existing student and faculty community engagement, developing new opportunities for engagement and working with the other undergraduate Claremont colleges and HMC鈥檚 institutional research staff to design, initiate and evaluate engagement efforts and assess their impact on faculty, students, community and the College.