It looks like Dartmouth College has decided to take a time out. The board has announced that it will not, for the time being, expand its membership by doubling the number of self-elected trustees in the face of a lawsuit initiated by its alumni association. Clearly, with the judge in that case deciding not to [...]
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Dr. James Wright, Dartmouth College’s president for 11 years, has announced that he will leave office in June 2009. Dr. Wright has informed the trustee board that he wants to get back to his academic field of political history and to extend his work helping wounded veterans attend college. His commitment to stay on through [...]
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According to the AP, Barnard’s board of trustees has named Debora L. Spar, a Harvard Business School professor, tp be their next president. She will be the institution’s eleventh chief executive.
Get more information from… Barnard College Names New President – Forbes.com
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It looks like the state of “Live Free or Die” is looking to get involved (again) into private college board politics. According to the following report, a legislative committee in New Hampshire is considering an attempt to reassert the state government’s ultimate control over changes to Dartmouth College’s charter, control the state relinquished in 2003. [...]
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In a continuing series of actions, the trustee board of Dartmouth College voted in mid-December to reprimand one of its alumni members, Todd Zywicki, for his remarks concerning a former president. Apparently Mr. Zywicki had already apologized for those remarks, but the board felt that the remarks were of sufficient concern to publicize this extraordinary [...]
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A group of four Dartmouth alumni trustees recently filed a brief in support of a suit brought by the alumni association against the College trustee board. The dispute centers on a decision by the board earlier this year to expand by adding members not elected by the Association of Alumni, thereby ending the long-standing tradition [...]
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