Reader to Reader, a nonprofit organization devoted to increasing literacy in under-served communities such as Native American reservations, announced a new partnership with Dartmouth in a blog post on Friday. The partnership, titled Many Paths, will create a multimedia mentoring program to help guide Native American high school students through the college admissions process. Dartmouth students participating in the partnership, which the Native American Program will run, will produce weekly videos about applying to college, student life and the benefits of higher education. Dartmouth students will also use Skype to conference call students at the St. Michael Indian School in St. Michaels, Ariz. The pilot program will begin in February, according to the announcement.
A number of college presidents are collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars each year by serving on the boards of companies run by university trustees, according to a Sunday article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Stanford University President John Hennessy earned approximately $720,000 last year for serving on the Google and Cisco Systems boards, and Donna Shalala, president of University of Miami, made nearly $500,000 in 2010 for serving on three companies' boards, two of which are run by university trustees. Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, earned $286,835 in 2010 for serving on the board of IBM, while the RPI board includes two IBM senior vice presidents. According to 2010 data collected by The Chronicle, about one-third of the presidents of the nation's 50 wealthiest colleges served on a corporate board. Experts interviewed by The Chronicle said potential conflicts of interest generated by these arrangements could have negative effects on the universities involved.
Laura Cousineau became the College's new director of the Biomedical Libraries on Monday, according to the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries blog. Prior to her arrival at Dartmouth, Cousineau simultaneously served as the assistant director for program development and resource integration, a professor in the College of Medicine in the pediatrics department and a professor in the College of Nursing at the Medical University of South Carolina. She previously served as Head of the Lilly Library at Duke University. Cousineau was named the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year in 2008 by the Southern Chapter of the Medical Libraries Association, according to the blog. She graduated from North Carolina State University with a degree in business management, holds a masters of library science from North Carolina Central University and received the Diplome Superieur de la Langue Francaise from the Sorbonne, the blog reported.
