Israeli hostage describes time in captivity during Chabad and Hillel event
Judith Raanan, an American woman captured and held hostage by Hamas for 17 days, described her “unimaginable” experiences in captivity in an event at Steele Hall on Sept. 30.
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Judith Raanan, an American woman captured and held hostage by Hamas for 17 days, described her “unimaginable” experiences in captivity in an event at Steele Hall on Sept. 30.
The federal government shut down on Tuesday night, causing “reviews, award actions and routine agency communications” for researchers to be halted, according to an email to campus from Provost Santiago Schnell.
This evening, the White House approached Dartmouth and eight other universities to sign an agreement in exchange for funding benefits, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Dartmouth students gathered for a vigil for Charlie Kirk on the Green on Sept. 25. This was the first campus-wide event of Dartmouth’s chapter of Turning Point USA, Kirk’s youth activist organization with chapters at 800 colleges across the country.
The Hanover Police Department contested College President Sian Leah Beilock’s Saturday announcement that a swastika had been drawn outside a Jewish student’s dorm room.
The department of Asian societies, cultures and languages has launched a Korean language program, according to ASCL and history professor Soyoung Suh.
Dartmouth is the highest-ranking college in the Ivy League for freedom of expression, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s 2026 report. The prominent free-speech organization ranked the College 35th in the nation, a “massive improvement” from last year’s rank of 224th.
Shonda Rhimes ’91, the entertainment mogul and Dartmouth trustee, has pledged $15 million dollars to Dartmouth to build an undergraduate residence hall. The Shonda Rhimes Hall, to be opened in the fall of 2028, will be the first Dartmouth building named after a woman or a Black person.
The partial opening of the renovated Hopkins Center for the Arts on Sept. 15 has provoked mixed feelings from students and staff members. Some said they are frustrated with the incomplete construction, while others expressed excitement about access to the new facilities.
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assasination, legacy media organizations — including the New York Times — have published news stories and analysis on modern American “polarization.” Since 2022, government professor Sean Westwood has studied the topic through surveys and computational models. His recent research has focused on political opinion, media misinformation and democratic norms in the United States. The Dartmouth sat down with Westwood to discuss his work and the future of American democracy.
Superior Court Judge David Ruoff in New Hampshire ruled that the state’s special education funding is “constitutionally insufficient” on Aug. 18.
A large swastika was drawn on the carpet outside of a Jewish student’s dorm room last night, according to the Hanover Police Department. Hanover Police captain Michael Schibuola said that the department responded to a student’s call about the drawing around 12:30 a.m.
Two weeks before his planned visit to the College, prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University.
This article is featured in the 2025 Freshman Special Issue.
A federal antitrust lawsuit filed on Aug. 8 in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts accused Dartmouth and 31 other colleges and universities — including Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania — of conspiring to inflate tuition through binding early decision admissions.
Ph.D. student Xiaotian Liu GR dropped his lawsuit against the Trump administration after his F-1 student immigration status was reinstated on Aug. 8. The New Hampshire chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the New England-based law firm Shaheen and Gordon represented Liu after his immigration record was abruptly deleted on April 4.
Long before she became President Donald Trump’s choice for United States assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, Harmeet Dhillon ’89 was a classical studies major and the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review. Today, Dhillon is a Trump loyalist, the first Republican woman to hold her position within the Department of Justice and a key figure in the Trump administration’s campaign to freeze federal funding for universities on the alleged basis that they have inadequately addressed campus antisemitism.
Dartmouth spent 25 times more on federal lobbying in the first six months of 2025 than in the first six months of 2024.
The total cost of attendance for undergraduates for the 2025–2026 academic year will be $95,490, an increase of approximately five percent compared to the 2024–2025 school year, according to Dartmouth’s undergraduate admissions website. Cost of attendance is calculated by the sum of the costs of tuition, fees, housing and food as well as “estimated indirect costs,” including course materials.
On July 7, the Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth and the College reached a final contract deal for both student dining workers and undergraduate advisors. The final agreements were “largely” included in the College’s April contract offers, according to College spokesperson Jana Barnello.