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(03/03/08 9:38am)
The Board will announce the rest of the search committee members in June and expects to go public with outgoing College President James Wright's successor in Spring 2009. Mulley, who joined the Board in 2004 as a charter trustee and is currently chief of general medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a statement that he hopes "to engage the larger Dartmouth community as we discern together the qualities of leadership that will best serve the College at this moment in its history."
(02/26/08 8:06am)
An additional 100 seniors will be forced to live off-campus next fall due to changes in the College's eligibility standards for on-campus housing, according to a letter sent to students by the Office of Residential Life on Monday. Students from the Class of 2008 or earlier, along with fifth-year students in the Thayer B.E. program, will be ineligible to participate in room draw in the spring or in the fall housing assignment process for private and College-owned coed, fraternity and sorority and undergraduate society houses.
(02/18/08 8:54am)
Dartmouth's Board of Trustees has indefinitely postponed its decision to add eight new charter members, according to a Feb. 14 court document. The addition of these trustees, who would not be elected by alumni, has been at the center of the ongoing Association of Alumni suit against the College.
(02/17/08 2:14pm)
Dartmouth's Board of Trustees has postponed indefinitely its decision to add eight new charter members, according to a Feb. 14 court document. The addition of these trustees, who would not be elected by alumni, has been at the center of the ongoing Association of Alumni suit against the College.
(02/17/08 5:04am)
Dartmouth's Board of Trustees has postponed indefinitely its decision to add eight new charter members, according to a Feb. 14 court document. The addition of these trustees, who would not be elected by alumni, has been at the center of the ongoing Association of Alumni suit against the College.
(02/13/08 10:58am)
CONCORD, N.H. -- Legislation that would allow the state of New Hampshire to halt potential changes to Dartmouth's charter was rejected, 14-1, by the House Commerce Committee on Tuesday afternoon. The representative who introduced the bill reserved the right to "try again in another session."
(02/08/08 3:17pm)
A conservative think tank that has frequently spoken against Dartmouth's governance structure has ties to alumni that have been critical of College policies and openly supportive of the Association of Alumni's lawsuit against the College.
(02/05/08 1:59pm)
The Association of Alumni's lawsuit against Dartmouth will go to trial following the failure of the College's motion to dismiss the case. The court ruled in favor of the Association on all counts considered in the motion in Grafton County Superior Court last Friday.
(01/31/08 5:26pm)
MacLean, a leading contributor to the College, donated $15 million in 2004 to support the construction of the MacLean Engineering Sciences Center at the Thayer School. He has received numerous awards from Dartmouth and serves on the boards of several prominent organizations, including the Art Institute of Chicago. Calls to his office were not returned.
(01/18/08 9:50am)
CONCORD, N.H. -- A former governor, state senators and Dartmouth alumni governance converged in the Legislative Office Building to debate the extent to which the state should have control over the College on Thursday afternoon. At issue was HB 1292, a bill introduced by Rep. Maureen Mooney, R-Hillsborough, that would repeal a 2003 law that gave the College complete control over its charter.
(01/15/08 9:29am)
College President James Wright and Susan Wright have begun a tour of ten Dartmouth alumni clubs throughout the country. After visiting the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Western Washington yesterday, the five-month tour will continue today with a trip to Silicon Valley. The president's itinerary covers clubs in Seattle, Orlando, Palm Beach, Philadelphia, New York City, Denver and Minneapolis. His last trip is scheduled for May 21.
(01/11/08 3:03pm)
NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. -- Grafton County Superior Court Judge Timothy Vaughn declined to announce a decision on the College's motion to dismiss the Association of Alumni's lawsuit following Thursday's hearing, opting instead to take the matter "under consideration," .
(01/10/08 4:33pm)
NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. -- No decision was announced today following the hearing on the College's motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Association of Alumni against the College. Grafton County Superior Court Judge Timothy Vaughn said he would take the matter "under advisement" and issue a decision shortly.
(01/10/08 8:49am)
The College's legal woes may come to an end today, as the Grafton County Superior Court is scheduled to hold a hearing on whether the Association of Alumni's lawsuit against Dartmouth should be dismissed. The hearing marks the culmination of a three-month-long struggle between the Association and the Board of Trustees over the trustees' decision to make significant changes to the College's governance structure in June.
(01/07/08 10:32am)
Dartmouth's Board of Trustees voted to reprimand fellow Trustee Todd Zywicki '88 in response to his Oct. 27 public criticism of the College's adherence to political correctness and his remark that former College President James Freedman was "truly evil." The reprimand, which was announced on the Board's website, arose from a Dec. 18 conference call among the trustees to discuss the matter.
(01/07/08 10:31am)
Candidates teamed up against the more vulnerable among them: former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass. and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. The back-to-back forums by the Republicans and Democrats were dominated by personal jibes and the word "change," which has become ubiquitous in the 2008 race.
(12/16/07 1:48am)
Over the last several years, the court of public opinion has been the petition trustees' choice forum in which to oppose decisions made by Dartmouth's leadership, but now they have moved their cause to a court of law.
(12/03/07 7:04am)
Zywicki's Oct. 27 address to the John William Pope Center, a conservative education think tank in Raleigh, N.C., first came to light after several Ivy League-specific websites posted the transcript and video from the event. Zywicki has drawn fire from alumni for his assertion that former College President James Freedman was a "truly evil man," that higher education is dominated by an "orthodoxy" of political correctness and that donations to universities are driven by ulterior motives.
(11/30/07 8:12am)
In 1995, a New Hampshire court threw out a lawsuit that attempted to block the College from moving forward with proposed changes to its governance system. This judicial history has come to rear its head again in the current lawsuit filed by the Association of Alumni against the College -- this time, being used in support of the Association's argument.
(11/26/07 7:18am)
Dartmouth Trustee Todd Zywicki '88 called former College President James Freedman "truly evil" and expressed disdain for an alleged academic orthodoxy of political correctness in a recently surfaced Oct. 27 speech at the John William Pope Center, a conservative higher education think tank.