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(09/14/14 10:51pm)
The College dropped one spot to the 11th best university in the country, and three spots to fourth in undergraduate teaching in the U.S. News and World Report annual rankings released last week. This decline comes after Dartmouth held the top spot in undergraduate teaching for five years, an accomplishment Dartmouth has highlighted in the past.
(09/09/14 11:58pm)
A faculty committee will convene this fall to consider opening course reviews to students, following a proposal that was tabled at a meeting in May. The issue will then be decided in a general faculty vote, according to the Dean of the Faculty office.
(08/08/14 1:59pm)
From student protests of the 1960s to the momentum of modern university protests, colleges have often been watersheds of student-driven activism. Dartmouth is no exception, with students from across campus pushing for change.
(06/07/14 10:21am)
Five graduating seniors — Serena Liu ’14, Jonathan Pedde ’14, Ethan Portnoy ’14, Natalie Salmanowitz ’14 and Ezra Toback ’14 — have been named valedictorians this year. Each has achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA at the College.
(05/20/14 11:11pm)
Winning by a margin of 40 percent, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf ’71 emerged victorious from the Democratic primary elections last night. Wolf, 65, ran on a platform of revitalizing the state’s economy, developing modern infrastructure and fighting for strong public schools.
(05/15/14 10:55pm)
In the wake of intense media scrutiny and passionate campus discussion of sexual assault, The Dartmouth polled the College’s undergraduates on topics related to sexual violence, finding that student opinion is sharply divided over Dartmouth’s responses to reports of sexual assault yet largely united in support of the proposed sexual assault policy. Self-identified men and women, the survey found, report they hold different views of sexual assault frequency, College response procedures and the Greek system’s connection to sexual assault.Sixty-two percent said they knew someone who had been sexually assaulted.
(05/14/14 10:51pm)
Despite growing up in a county where around one-fifth of the population identified as Asian — more than three times the national percentage — Fischer Yan ’14 said she felt like she lived in a white suburb. Before an audience of over 100 people in Collis Common Ground yesterday night, Yan and four other panelists — Saaid Arshad ’14, Karima Ma ’14, Francis Slaughter ’16 and Maan Tinna ’13 — spoke about their experiences as Asians and Asian Americans both at Dartmouth and beyond.
(05/08/14 10:36pm)
Presidential competition for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a tough re-election race for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and a safe win for Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., are among the predictions made by the Rockefeller Center’s seventh annual “State of the State Poll,” released today.
(05/04/14 11:13pm)
Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson will depart Dartmouth for Scripps College after this academic year, College President Phil Hanlon announced in an email Friday morning. Johnson will be the vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Scripps, a 1,000-student women’s college in Claremont, California. Over the weekend, students expressed mixed reactions to the news, with some voicing surprise and concern at the high rate of recent administrative turnover and others wishing her well in a new career.
(05/02/14 7:34am)
Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson will depart Dartmouth for Scripps College after this academic year, College President Phil Hanlon announced in an email Friday morning. Johnson will be the vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Scripps, a 1,000-student women’s college in Claremont, California.
(04/30/14 9:51pm)
Before an audience of about 90 people, Jocelyn Powelson ’14 recounted her experience volunteering in Lesotho — a country she described as encumbered by high HIV rates and poverty. Powelson, in addition to five other panelists, shared their experiences with service Wednesday night at a forum on social justice hosted by the Tucker Foundation.
(04/24/14 10:54pm)
In February 1904, Dartmouth Hall burned down in a smoky blaze. In response, Melvin Adams, Class of 1871, rallied the College’s New England alumni and raised enough money to begin rebuilding Dartmouth Hall within three months.
(04/20/14 10:49pm)
On a Monday in late March, Ben Randolph ’15 opened an email. By the time he had finished reading it, he knew he was a Beinecke Scholar. The notification, which, came over a month early told Randolph he was one of 20 students chosen nationally to receive over $30,000 in funding for graduate school.
(04/08/14 11:18pm)
Before an audience of around 900 people, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright conversed with Dickey Center director Daniel Benjamin in Spaulding Auditorium Tuesday afternoon, interspersing lighthearted anecdotes with serious political discussion.
(04/01/14 11:34pm)
Members of the College community expressed mixed opinions about the sit-in staged in College President Phil Hanlon’s office yesterday, with some faculty and students praising the demonstrators’ boldness and others criticizing their methods.
(03/31/14 10:38pm)
A few years after Daniela Pelaez ’16 and her family emigrated from Barranquilla, Colombia, to Florida in 1999, Pelaez’s mother fell seriously ill. Lacking health insurance, her mother decided to return to Colombia after a lawyer told the family that she could return to the U.S. after receiving medical care. This, however, was not the case, and Pelaez’s mother was banned from the U.S. for 10 years.
(03/26/14 11:26pm)
Following the Board of Trustees’ March 8 vote to raise tuition, room, board and mandatory fees by the lowest percentage increase since 1977, education policy experts pointed to both national tuition trends and Dartmouth’s 14 percent drop in application numbers as possible reasons for the reduced growth in price.
(03/25/14 11:38pm)
Tuck School of Business Dean Paul Danos stated yesterday that he would not seek reappointment for a sixth term and will step down at the end of his current term in June 2015. His announcement, which follows 19 years of deanship, was relayed by a campus-wide email from College President Phil Hanlon.
(03/03/14 12:56am)
Although the College will not finalize its 2014-15 tuition amount until later this month, national trends point toward an ever-rising cost of attendance. With a sticker price of $63,282, Dartmouth was the second-most expensive Ivy League university in the 2013-14 academic year, following Columbia University.
(02/27/14 2:38am)
Over 200 students, faculty and staff crowded into Collis Common Ground last night to discuss the “Freedom Budget,” a student-authored list of demands that aims to “eradicate systems of oppression as they affect marginalized communities on this campus” by prompting administrative action.