Harvey Mudd College
Harvey Mudd College – Approximately 40 Harvey Mudd College students have been employed as tutors in the HMC branch of the Homework Hotline program.
The program began in 1991 at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana. Originally a small-scale operation, the program has grown and is now able to take more than 400 calls a night.
HMC President Maria Klawe visited the Institute, said HMC’s Homework Hotline administrator Gabriela Gaimez-Gomez, and decided to implement the same program at Harvey Mudd. Philanthropists Marilyn and James Simons funded the endeavor through the Math for America New York Fellowship.
The program, which is currently in its pilot stage, covers the Pomona Unified School District and the Claremont Unified School District. While no caller is turned away, these student groups are specifically targeted so that the program can develop a control group to monitor its development.
Homework Hotline will continue to maintain communication with these districts so that it can better serve them in the future, said Gaimez-Gomez. Although the program only advertises math assistance, tutors are encouraged to try to answer questions from any field.
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