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Rhonda Beron
Administrative Assistant
Telephone: (909) 621-8518
email: rhonda.beron@pomona.edu

Provides secretarial support for the Associate and Assistant Dean of the College. Manages the Associate and Assistant Deans’ calendars. Assists with Faculty Recruiting, Faculty Personnel Committee, Emeriti Committee, Wig Distinguished Professorship awards, Hahn grants, and Wig grants.

Ilene Campbell
Administrative Assistant
Telephone: (909) 621-8137
email: ilene.campbell@pomona.edu

Provides secretarial support for the Dean of the College. Manages the Dean’s calendar, the Dean’s Office files, and the faculty listservs. Assists in processing faculty contracts, professional activities reports (PARs), and department/program annual reports.

Sandra Fenton
Grants Administrator/Assistant to the Associate Dean
Telephone: (909) 621-8328
email: sandra.fenton@pomona.edu

Oversees all internal and external faculty research and travel grants including budget management. Acts as liaison with Business Office and Institutional Advancement in tracking and reporting of all grant and research expenditures. Facilitates the Summer Undergraduate Research Program, and supports the academic leave program.

Kristin Fossum
Assistant Dean of the College
Telephone: (909) 607-1747
email: kristin.fossum@pomona.edu

With the Dean of the College, manages the faculty reappointment, tenure and promotion review process and oversees the recruitment of temporary faculty. Serves on the Faculty Personnel Committee, WASC, and Emergency Preparedness Committees and supports the Cabinet, Cabinet Agenda Committee, Emeriti Committee, and Wig Fund for Teaching Committee. Administers the Wig Distinguished Professorship awards as well as funds for curriculum development, teaching innovation, travel to teaching conferences, faculty auditing, teaching with technology, and other teaching-related activities. Other responsibilities include overseeing the Dean’s staff, editing the Faculty Handbook, and serving as liaison with ITS for faculty computers.

Gary Kates
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
Telephone: (909) 621-8137
email: gary.kates@pomona.edu

The Dean of the College is responsible for the quality of the academic program and for its continuing improvement. The Dean oversees faculty personnel, actions including recruitment and reviews for reappointment and promotion. This office also is in charge of supporting the faculty and the departments/programs with needed personnel, office space, and material resources. The Dean also works closely with the President and the Vice-President for Development in designing new policies and programs and in developing proposals to prospective donors.

On June 30, 2009, Dean Kates will take a one-year sabbatical and then join Pomona’s History Department in the Fall of 2010. A search for his replacement is ongoing.

Tania Pantoja
Executive Assistant to the Dean
Telephone: (909) 607-2831
email: tania.pantoja@pomona.edu 

Responsible for various institutional surveys, questionnaires, and requests for information about faculty and the academic program of the College. Monitors and analyzes the faculty salary budget, prepares faculty contracts, and provides appropriate offices with new hire information. Edits the Department Chair and Program Coordinator Handbook and the faculty section of the Pomona College Catalog. Assists the Dean in faculty personnel matters. Also staffs the Academic Affairs Committee and Honorary Degrees Committee of the Board of Trustees, the Faculty Position Advisory Committee and faculty meetings.

Cynthia Selassie
Associate Dean of the College
Telephone: (909) 621-8328
email: cynthia.selassie@pomona.edu

Responsible for assisting faculty with research and scholarly development. Chairs the Faculty Research Committee and oversees the funding of internal programs and external government and non-government grant applications. Acts as the faculty liaison for academic space allocations on campus, as well as building projects in the sciences. Handles requests for academic leaves and for student/faculty collaborative  research programs. Oversees regulatory issues associated with human subjects, chemical hygiene and biosafety, and radiation safety. Also a member of the Board of Trustees’ Buildings and Grounds Committee, the Institutional Review Board, the Radiation Safety Committee and the Animal Welfare and Use Committee.

Kenneth Wolf
Associate Dean of the College
Telephone: (909) 621-8526
email: kenneth.wolf@pomona.edu

Works with the Teaching & Learning Committee, the Curriculum Committee, and the President’s Committee on Diversity. Coordinates the assessment of student learning. Oversees faculty searches, departmental self-studies, the New Faculty Orientation, and the Pomona Scholars Program. Administers the Supplemental Lecture Fund. Diversity Officer and Harassment and Grievance Officer. See the Dean’s website for information on Faculty Recruiting.

Fax # for all: (909) 621-8836


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