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Miriam
Feldblum Named Vice President and Dean of Students at
Pomona College
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Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
colleges, has appointed Miriam Feldblum to be its new vice
president and dean of students effective July 1, 2007. She
is currently the senior director for academic support and
planning at the California Institute of Technology
(Caltech).
 Pomona
College President David W. Oxtoby said he is delighted that
Feldblum will be joining Pomona this summer. “She brings
exactly the qualities we were looking for in this
appointment: a deep commitment to students and their
achievement, an involvement in and commitment to issues of
diversity and an ability to work strategically in a national
context,” said Oxtoby. “The search committee was unanimous
in its enthusiasm for the thoughtful and personal approach
she will bring to student affairs at Pomona.”
As part of the interview process, Feldblum spent two days on
campus meeting with students, faculty and staff in public
forums. Among the key factors in her decision to come to
Pomona and return to liberal arts education, she said, is
that “Pomona truly embraces student leadership and learning
inside and outside the classroom. What I saw was student
leadership on the campus and in the community…. and the
President’s vision of the future is to pursue even further
those sorts of opportunities for student engagement and
leadership.”
A highlight of Feldblum’s visit, she says, was her meeting
with students. “Their enthusiasm, their passion and their
interest in improving Pomona, not only for themselves but
for others, came through very strongly.”
As vice president and dean of students at Pomona College, Feldblum will oversee residential and social life at a
private liberal arts college that is home to 1,500 students.
Her areas of responsibility will include housing, student
activities, the campus center, career development, community
and multicultural programs, and the Asian American Resource
Center. The position also shares
responsibility for academic support services, advising and
academic procedures. In addition, the Dean oversees several
services provided through the Claremont Colleges consortium
– including health and counseling, campus safety, the
chaplaincy and offices for Black and Chicano/Latino Student
Affairs – in cooperation with deans from the other Claremont
Colleges.
At Caltech, Feldblum served in a variety of roles during her
11 years with the institution. As senior director for
academic support and planning since 2003, she is a member of
the senior management team and is responsible for
supervising athletics, physical education and recreation,
the career development center, the counseling and health
centers, fellowships advising and study abroad, performing
and creative arts, and the women’s center. She also directs
institutional research and assessment within student
affairs, serves as the lead student affairs’ representative
for the WASC accreditation process, is the Institute’s Title
IX officer, co-coordinates the Mellon Mays Fellowship
program, and serves as the administrative liaison for the
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning
community and other campus groups.
From 2000-2006, she served as special assistant to
then-President David Baltimore leading projects on student
achievement and student residential life. In 2001, she led
the Institutewide Task Force on Undergraduate Residential
Life Initiatives, whose central recommendations for the
restoration and reconstruction of Student Houses were
successfully incorporated into Caltech’s capital campaign.
She also provided development and assessment of diversity
and gender equity initiatives, including managing proposals
for diversity initiatives such as a $2.2 million grant from
The James Irvine Foundation, entry of Caltech into the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minority PhD Program, and a $5
million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
In addition to her administrative roles, Feldblum is a
faculty associate and lecturer in the Division of Humanities
and Social Sciences where she teaches courses on immigration
and citizenship. Her publications include Reconstructing
Citizenship (1999), on citizenship politics and policies
in France, and “The Human Face of Global Mobility”
(co-authored chapter, 2006). Her research interests include
comparative citizenship and nationality policies, first- and
second-generation students, scientists and engineers in the
U.S. and the role of international governmental and
nongovernmental organizations as service providers and
policy setters in migration.
Feldblum was raised in New York City and earned her bachelor
or arts degree, cum laude, from Barnard College. She then
attended Yale University, earning her master of arts, master
of philosophy and her doctorate degrees in political
science. She taught at the University of San Francisco
before joining Caltech. Her partner is Peter Biegen, a
successful screenwriter. She has three teenage sons, Ari,
Isaac and Noah.
Pomona College, founded in 1887, offers a comprehensive
program in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural
sciences. Its hallmarks include small classes, close
relationships between students and faculty, and a range of
opportunities for student research. |
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