After senior vice president and senior diversity officer Shontay Delalue steps down at the end of June, institutional diversity and equity will no longer operate as a standalone senior administrative office at the College. The office will move under the Office of Community and Campus Life, overseen by senior vice president Jennifer Rosales, Dartmouth News announced on May 15. Current associate vice president for inclusion and strategic engagement Tennille Haynes will permanently oversee institutional diversity and equity in her new role as associate vice president of campus life and inclusion initiatives.
Delalue, who became Dartmouth’s inaugural senior vice president and senior diversity officer in 2021, helped oversee the College’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategy and worked closely with student-facing offices, including the International Student Experience Office, which she helped found. She will leave her senior leadership role to pursue an American Council on Education fellowship but will continue to serve as a health policy and clinical practice lecturer at the Geisel School of Medicine, according to Dartmouth News.
Delalue did not respond to requests for comment on her departure or the restructuring of IDE.
In a joint interview with The Dartmouth with Haynes and College spokesperson Jana Barnello, Rosales said the restructuring is part of a broader effort to expand the Community and Campus Life umbrella by bringing in more campus support offices. The division already expanded to include health and wellness following former chief health and wellness officer Estevan Garcia’s departure in January and will now include IDE.
“The idea would be that the supports are for everybody on campus — for Arts and Sciences, for Thayer, for all the different schools here on campus, for our faculty, staff and everybody — will all sit within the Community and Campus Life umbrella,” Rosales said.
Haynes will continue to oversee IDE’s existing work while also overseeing several student-facing offices, including the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, the Native American Program, Veterans Affairs, the International Student Experience Office and the William Jewett Tucker Center. The change gives Haynes a broader role than Delalue held, Rosales said.
Haynes will also remain on the College President Sian Leah Beilock’s senior leadership team. Haynes is the only associate vice president listed among senior vice presidents, deans and other top administrators on the Office of the President website.
Rosales said the change aims to address concerns that IDE and other campus offices have worked too separately from one another, naming NAP, OPAL, the Veterans Affairs Office and the Tucker Center as a few offices she wants IDE to work in closer conversation with.
“There has been consistent criticism of ideas that folks are working in silos and not reaching across,” Rosales said. “The idea is that this structure directly addresses that.”
Haynes began overseeing IDE on an interim basis after Delalue stepped away from her administrative responsibilities on July 1, 2025 to “focus on research and teaching,” according to Dartmouth News.
“All the work that Dr. Delalue was doing in her role within IDE, I will continue to do,” Haynes said.
The restructuring comes as colleges and universities across the country face heightened political scrutiny over DEI programs. In April 2025, Dartmouth temporarily removed and later restored its main diversity and inclusion webpage as part of what a College spokesperson then described to The Dartmouth as a review to ensure “compliance with the law.”
Rosales said the review did not affect IDE’s restructuring or IDE’s budget — which has not changed as a result of the restructuring. She said she could not provide specifics about IDE’s budget because the College has not yet received its new budget for fiscal year 2027.
Barnello added that Dartmouth has not renamed the IDE office, even as other institutions have changed the names of similar offices. In April 2025, Harvard renamed its Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging to “Community and Campus Life.”
“Other schools have changed the names of their IDEs, their version of that,” Barnello said. “We have not. The work continues. It’s a structural change.”
Haynes said IDE will continue to support faculty, staff and students, including through work with the Office of Human Resources, campus climate efforts and learning and development programs.
“We still are going to do a lot of the same work that we did before,” Haynes said. “We’re still going to do the signature programs that we did.”
Haynes said the “biggest difference” is that IDE will now be “more integrated” into the campus community.
“You’ll see a lot more IDE and [its] work than you probably have seen before,” she said.
Rosales said the new structure will allow students to go to one place for all “issues” and be directed to the right office. As one example, she described a student who may feel supported by one of the student offices, using OPAL as an example, but also needs help navigating a conversation with a professor. Under the new structure, Rosales said, OPAL can work more closely with ISEO and IDE staff to better support students facing similar issues.
Rosales also pointed to the Tucker Center’s work with health and wellness staff during Ramadan as an example of the kind of collaboration she hopes to strengthen. After the Tucker Center joined Community and Campus Life, Rosales said the Muslim chaplain worked with staff focused on nutrition to offer programming for students observing Ramadan.
“That’s a perfect example of an integration between different offices with maybe different types of expertise and different types of supports coming together to support our students,” Roslaes said.
Haynes said IDE is currently hiring a senior director for learning and institutional impact, who will work closely with her to continue Dartmouth’s campus climate survey. Under Delalue’s leadership, the College completed a campus climate survey in January. According to the report released on May 8, 1,401 undergraduate and graduate students and 2,074 staff completed the survey, which measured “experiences across key areas of campus life, including inclusion, engagement, relationships, wellbeing and institutional trust.” Haynes said the new senior director role will help analyze campus climate data, make that data available to the community and work with offices and departments on “action plans.”
“[The survey] will really inform us of what Dartmouth looks like,” Haynes said. “Not only as far as diversity, but also what are the experiences of folks within Dartmouth?”
Haynes said her other priorities include working with offices and centers across Community and Campus Life and becoming more visible to students.
“Being here about a little over a year-and-a-half, [I’m] still new,” Haynes said. “So meeting students, going on a tour, being where students are, learning more about how IDE could better support different areas as well, too, is definitely also going to be a top priority for me.”
Rosales said the restructuring reflects her own commitment to the work and her belief that Community and Campus Life can help build the relationships and structures needed to support students. Previously, she worked as vice president for inclusion and engaged learning and chief diversity officer at Barnard College.
“This [IDE] is an expertise that I have and that I want to continue to support on this campus and feel is very important to the work that we’re doing,” Rosales said.
Rosales said she hopes the transition will help ensure that students know where to turn when they need support.
“My hope and desire is that there is no student on this campus that doesn’t have a faculty member, a staff member, somebody they know is the champion in their corner that they can go to,” Rosales said.
Haley S. Rodriguez '29 is a reporter with roots in New York City. She is studying history and biology and enjoys long-distance running, reading and sailing.
