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Jeanne Noda

Jeanne NodaJeanne Noda, vice president and dean of students who began at Harvey Mudd College in 1993, is responsible for co-curricular aspects of student life on campus. She supervises residential life, cultural and social activities, volunteer and community service programs, career services, institutional diversity, study abroad and exchange programs, along with disabled student support, personal advising and crisis intervention. She also handles campus-wide programs, including new student orientation, career day and commencement. In collaboration with Mary Cardenas, HMC’s associate dean of academic affairs, Jeanne also oversees academic advising, student government, campus dining vendor, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps athletics department and a variety of shared Claremont College services of The Claremont Colleges.


Prior to joining HMC’s senior staff, she spent eight years at the California Institute of Technology as assistant vice president for student affairs, and, before that, as associate dean of students. At Caltech, Jeanne—an honorary alumna of the institution—coordinated the operations of admissions, financial aid, residence life, athletics and physical education, secondary school outreach, career development, counseling services, the registrar's office and academic advising. In 1990, Caltech sponsored Jeanne to receive the Medal of Excellence from the Women at Work organization in Pasadena, California.

In earlier positions, Jeanne was assistant dean and director of the M.B.A. program at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Business Administration. She also served as director of M.B.A. admissions at Washington University’s School of Business in St. Louis. Prior to working in university administration, Jeanne was a psychiatric social worker. She graduated from St. Louis University with a B.S. in social work, and has since earned an M.S.W. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.B.A. from Washington University and attended the Management Development Program at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.


Jeanne can be reached at jnoda@hmc.edu or (909) 621-8125.