Jennifer Alanis, assistant vice president for student affairs and Title IX coordinator, was presented with the Doris Michiko Ching Award for Excellence as a Student Affairs Professional for her outstanding work at Harvey Mudd College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am so honored to have been selected for this because this is my passion,\u201d Alanis says. The award is reserved for those who have outstanding commitment to the student affairs profession, develop programs that address the needs of students and create campus environments that promote student learning and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo have my peers, colleagues and <\/ins>some of my former students, submit me for this award was really grounding,\u201d Alanis says. \u201cGrowing up, there weren\u2019t a lot of people who spoke like me, who looked like me, who had similar experiences as me so it\u2019s my drive to always be my authentic self when I\u2019m doing my work because I want the students to be able to see that and feel like they can achieve their goals, too.\u201d As a first-generation Mexican American, Alanis understands how continuing to create an inclusive and equitable campus for students, especially those who come from historically excluded communities, helps them succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Harvey Mudd, Alanis has helped create shared learning experiences, equitable policies and collaborative relationships with the goal of promoting diverse dialogue and providing educational opportunities to students. \u201cWe cannot accomplish what we\u2019re doing for students if we do not have those collaborative relationships and diverse dialogue,\u201d Alanis says. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s really important to be able to look at policy, procedures and programming through an equity-minded lens because our end goal is to make sure that our students make it to the finish line and secure those positions to move them up to their next step.\u201d HMC\u2019s Division of Student Affairs is responsible for residential life, student activities, career services, health and wellness, institutional diversity and community engagement. Alanis will be honored at the 2023 NASPA Annual Conference in April. \u201cBy receiving this award, it shows me that I\u2019m doing what I was meant to do,” says Alanis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jennifer Alanis, assistant vice president for student affairs and Title IX coordinator, was presented with the Doris Michiko Ching Award […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":11352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award","category-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}