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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The THES World University Ranking was released late last year by the Times Higher Education Supplement. It attempts to provide a common scheme on which the best universities worldwide may be identified. Number one on this scorecard was Harvard University, followed by a three-way tie for second place involving Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale. The U.S. [...]
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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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I missed this earlier, but Dartmouth College recently announced that it is extending its policy of need-blind admissions to international students. This means that the admit/deny decision will be made without consideration of the student’s ability to pay and further implies that aid packaging will then be based on the demonstrated ability of that student [...]
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OK, add Dartmough College to the ranks of those Top Tier institutions that have decided to expand their financial aid grants. Loans are out, and a commitment has been made to end tuition for students from families with incomes below $75,000. Furthermore, an additional grant of $3,000 will be made to students wishing to take [...]
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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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Both in Iowa and New Hampshire, young voters on college campuses played a key role in the recent primary activites. Not only do college students volunteer on behalf of their candidates, they also turn out in force on election day itself. Many of us can recall the time that the voting age was still 21, [...]
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Is this what they were doing when they walked out on former President Clinton? It must be a blast to be a Dartmouth student every four winters when it’s primary season. I guess it’s back to school now.
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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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the chair of the English Department at Dartmouth will present a talk on “Mr. and Mrs. Prince” at the Brattleboro, VT, library at 7 pm on February 6th. This report might not be of great direct import to many of our readers, but it’s offered here as a wonderful example of how great universities can [...]
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