HMTCA-Trinity Partnership Story Highlights

When the TRIN-HMTCA Tutors program launched in the fall of 2022, Liliana Polley IDP’21, MA’23 was worried about getting enough Trinity College student tutors and Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy (HMTCA) students to join the program. It turned out that recruitment wasn’t a problem. Trinity students showed strong interest in volunteering for the afterschool program and there was equal enthusiasm from HMTCA parents to enroll their children for tutoring and extracurricular programming. Polley, the Trinity-HMTCA Partnership Program Manager, had 15 Trinity student tutors and 15 HMTCA student mentees signed up in no time. By Spring 2023, that number has expanded to 19 Trinity students and 30 HMTCA students.

The HMTCA-Trinity Partnership maintains the relationship between Trinity and HMTCA, creating opportunities for students and faculty at both institutions to build connections and learn from each other. Led by new partnership program manager Liliana Polley, recent initiatives include the return of HMTCA’s back-to-school barbecue on the Main Quad at Trinity, a new classroom space dedicated for HMTCA classes, the enrollment of ten high school seniors in fall courses at Trinity, a new tutoring program in development, and an advisory board for the partnership. “The last few months have been a reflection of Trinity’s commitment to the partnership with HMTCA,” says Polley. “We are working tirelessly to strengthen the relationship between HMTCA and Trinity College.”