Meet the DOS Staff
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Come visit us in our offices on the first floor of Heggblade Center. |
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 Mary Spellman
Dean of Students, 909-621-8114, mary.spellman@cmc.edu
Dean Spellman is responsible for overseeing the Dean of Students department, staff, and programs. She is the primary contact for returning sophomores, juniors, and seniors, but her main focus is to be an advocate for all students. Dean Spellman is available to listen to students with questions or concerns about their CMC experience and to help find solutions to any problems or difficulties students may be having. Additionally, she oversees conduct issues and the Judiciary Board and serves as the College's Title IX Coordinator. Dean Spellman has a BA in Anthropology from Occidental College, a Masters in Education from Indiana University-Bloomington, and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Saint Mary's College of California. She is a native of California who loves to travel, is a chocoholic, and bakes regularly (especially chocolate chip cookies), which is why she tries to attend her boot camp workout class most mornings.
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 Jennifer Jimenez Maraña
Associate Dean of Students and Dean of First-Year Students, 909-621-8114, jennifer.marana@cmc.edu
Dean Maraña is responsible for New Student programs, including Orientation, and is the primary contact in the Dean of Students office for students who enter in 2011-2012 as a freshman or transfer. She serves on the Diversity Committee and works closely with staff from the various cultural centers across the Claremont Colleges to better serve and support students of color and LGBTQA students. Dean Maraña received her bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from UC Santa Barbara and her master’s degree in Counseling and Personnel Services from University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Education at Claremont Graduate University. Dean Maraña enjoys running and baking, eating delicious desserts (major sweet tooth!), and spending time with her partner and two sons. She has been at CMC for eight years and loves the friendly and close-knit community of students, staff, and faculty.
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 Eric Vos
Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Residential Life, 909-621-8114, eric.vos@cmc.edu
Dean Vos is responsible for residential life, including housing assignments and the Resident Assistant program. He also assists with conduct issues and the Judiciary Board. He aims to provide a positive and dynamic residential experience for all CMC students. A native of Claremont, he trekked east to attend Middlebury College where he also worked following his graduation. He's been slowly making his way back west, having attended graduate school at Northwestern University and subsequently working at Grinnell College. He is half-French and is always looking for opportunities to converse. He enjoys spending time with his wife and family, cooking, exploring, coaching, and following sports. The efficiency aficionado in him may even try to combine all of these interests into one activity!
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 Jim Nauls
Assistant Dean of Students, Director of Student Activities, and Manager of the Student Apartments, 909-621-8114, james.nauls@cmc.edu
Dean Nauls oversees the Student Activities Office and works closely with individual students and student organizations to provide a wide variety of social activities on and off campus. He assists students with event planning and management. Programs sponsored through the Student Activities Office include concerts, comedians, coffee houses, dances, weekly movie nights, off-campus trips to local attractions and athletic events, and discounted tickets to amusement parks and movie theaters. Dean Nauls also supervises the Wilderness Orientation Adventure (WOA!) program and mentors the student directors. Dean Nauls manages the student apartment complex, where he lives with his wife.
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 Julia Easley
Assistant to the VP for Student Affairs and the Dean of Students, 909-607-7377, julia.easley@cmc.edu
Ms. Easley is responsible for administrative tasks within the Dean of Students Office, including maintaining the appointment calendars for Jeff Huang and Mary Spellman. She supervises the DOS support staff as well as DOS student assistants, and is a good source of information. She also serves as the coordinator for students needing Disability Support Services. Ms. Easley grew up in Houston, Texas, attended the High School of the Performing and Visual Arts, and was an exchange student in Sweden for a year after high school. She graduated from the University of Texas in Austin and spent many years working as a legal secretary. She moved to Claremont three years ago from Minnesota where she still has family, although she was born in Long Beach and is therefore technically a SoCal native. She loves to travel yet is quite the homebody and watches more TiVo than she would care to admit.
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 Lyn Hughes
Administrative Assistant, 909-607-7950, lyn.hughes@cmc.edu
Ms. Hughes provides assistance in the areas of Residential Life and Orientation, including room changes, meal plans, health insurance, and dorm damage. A native Californian, she is a graduate of Cal State Fullerton with a BA in Communication. She hopes you will drop by Heggblade if you have any questions regarding residential life. Even if you don’t have a question, stop by and visit ‘Wilson’, the automatic red candy dispenser, which will cheerfully provide a handful of M&M’s, Skittles or jelly beans.
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 Maria Alfaro
Administrative Assistant, 909-607-7386, maria.alfaro@cmc.edu
Ms. Alfaro assists with the Student Activities program and general office functions. She reviews and updates the Student Activities page on the Dean of Students website and supervises the student activities assistants. She sells tickets to events, as well as tickets for movie theaters and other local attractions. Her desk is easily identified by all her Disneyland memorabilia and her green plants.
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