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(01/09/14 10:04am)
Carolyn Dever, dean of the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University, will serve as Dartmouth’s next provost, the College announced Thursday. Dever, who will begin on July 1, has served in administrative roles in higher education for over a decade.
(01/06/14 5:36am)
Twelve students got a firsthand look at India’s extremes of wealth and poverty when economics professor Charles Wheelan’s fall public policy course spent the winter interim period traveling throughout the country. The direct experience followed months in the classroom learning about India’s economic reform programs.
(11/13/13 12:41am)
The College will renovate the Hopkins Center in the near future, potentially adding three performance or spaces and converting Alumni Hall to a performance space. The redesigned facility aims to allow easier navigation and visibility of the arts facilities.
(11/06/13 11:04pm)
About a decade ago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology history department chair Craig Steven Wilder, then a professor at Dartmouth, began to research how black abolitionists were excluded from colleges before the Civil War. After discovering that some of these abolitionists had attended the College, he turned to the archives of Rauner Special Collections Library, where his findings took him through college founder Eleazar Wheelock’s personal papers and Samson Occom’s diary to the intersection of American slavery and colonial colleges.
(11/05/13 11:56pm)
College students check their cellphones during class an average of 11 times each day, according to a new study by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Just 8 percent of students said they never look at their phones when they should be paying attention in class and just more than half said they do so out of boredom, The Huffington Post reported. Of students surveyed, 86 percent look at their phones to text and two-thirds look at their phones to check their email or social networks. While the majority of students believe Internet-capable electronics interfere with learning, less than 5 percent labeled them major distractions and 91 percent would oppose banning them in the classroom.
(10/31/13 11:00pm)
The number of students applying to law school has been on the decline, with October’s law entry exam administrations down nearly 11 percent from last year, The Wall Street Journal reported. The decline marks the lowest number of potential applicants taking the LSAT since 1998 and corresponds with an approximately 18 percent drop in applications since last year. The LSATs saw 45 percent fewer takers this October compared with the 2009, when the exam’s popularity peaked.
(10/31/13 11:00am)
Mike ’16, who is on full financial aid thanks to a need-based scholarship, federal grants and his work-study program, is adamant about not taking student loans and falling into debt before graduation. While loans are readily available, he focuses on jobs and does his best to cover extra expenses, such as textbook costs, without turning to them.
(10/25/13 2:00am)
Dartmouth Peak Performance has a career connections division, which works with other campus organizations like the Center for Professional Development, formerly called Career Services, to offer athlete-specific events planned around athletes' schedules, direct athletes to campus career events and urge athletes to begin career-planning early on.
(10/09/13 2:00am)
The National Institutes of Health granted the College $18 million for translational research through its Clinical and Translational Science Award program, the College announced Monday. The grant will be matched by an additional $20 million from the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system, totaling $38 million for Dartmouth's efforts to make clinical studies applicable to patient care.
(10/04/13 2:00am)
Sanborn and Greek presidents said they are optimistic for the policy's future, which will remain in effect through next Sunday.
(09/27/13 2:00am)
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center officials met with a special state tax commission on Thursday to discuss how New Hampshire taxes hospitals, the Associated Press reported. The representatives said DHMC is penalized with taxes for integrating laboratory services, outpatient oncology and ambulance care with Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, though it is in the patients' best interest to do so. Until 2011, hospitals were refunded state tax money, but the federal government now requires the state to distribute money based on the Medicaid cost of each respective hospital, the report said.
(09/23/13 2:00am)
Faculty, alumni and students expressed pride in having an alumnus as the next College leader and confidence in College President Phil Hanlon's ability to push Dartmouth forward.
(09/18/13 2:00am)
The policy, ElevateHealth, is the first of its kind in the state and seeks to provide both employers and employees with a high standard of care at a lowered premium cost, according to a DHMC press release. The policy, which takes effect Dec. 1, offers savings of at least 10 percent compared with other plans offered by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
(09/16/13 2:00am)
At approximately 3 a.m., cardboard boxes caught fire in the basement, which triggered the house's alarm and sprinkler system. The sprinklers extinguished the blaze, and Safety and Security, the Hanover Fire Department and Hanover Police responded to the alarm.
(09/11/13 2:00am)
Passed in late May, the Greek First-Year Safety and Risk Reduction policy bars freshmen from entering Greek houses until after Homecoming weekend, except during GLC-approved events designed for first-year students. The policy went into effect on Aug. 30, when Section A of First-Year Trips returned to campus, and will expire at noon on Oct. 14.
(05/27/13 2:00am)
The GLC, its five subcouncils and Greek house presidents overwhelmingly approved the policy, which aims to protect freshmen's safety and mitigate the risk that Greek houses take when hosting new students.
(05/15/13 2:00am)
Otterbein University of Westerville, Ohio, no longer requires victims, perpetrators and witnesses involved in sexual assault investigations to sign a form advising them against sharing information from the cases, Inside Higher Ed reported. The university's administration initiated a change in policy after student journalists for the campus newspaper Tan & Cardinal discovered that the form violated federal law. The U.S. Education Department has deemed nondisclosure agreements illegal in cases of sexual assault. University officials previously argued that the forms should not be considered nondisclosure agreements because they only advised, not required, alleged victims to keep mum about their cases. Experts said discouraging alleged victims from discussing their cases can violate their free speech rights, encourage a culture of blaming sexual assault victims and allow universities to cover up crimes, according to the report.
(05/14/13 2:00am)
Robert Lasher '88 is having a homecoming to Dartmouth this spring first in June for his 25th reunion, and then to begin his position as senior vice president for advancement on July 1. Lasher is the first appointment to join the senior administrative staff of President-elect Philip Hanlon, who will assume his role on June 10.
(05/08/13 2:00am)
The Committee on Standards has not released a report to the community since the 2009-2010 academic year, though it is expected to publish one each year on individual and organizational student cases, according to the Dartmouth Student Handbook.
(05/08/13 2:00am)
Though still considered an unconventional route, taking a gap year before college may benefit students, USA Today reported. While there are no definitive figures, an estimated 2 to 10 percent of students in the United States defer college enrollment for one year, while rates for some European countries are at more than 50 percent. In the U.S., negative perceptions that gap years are only for affluent students and that taking a year off sets students behind could contribute to the lower rates, according to the report. One expert called on colleges to change these perceptions and noted that only a few institutions formally encourage students to take time off, including Princeton University, which offers full scholarships to up to 35 students in every incoming class.