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July 25, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Biron to step down as Dean of the College

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Interim provost David Kotz ’86 announced today that Dean of the College Rebecca Biron will be stepping down from her position and returning to full-time teaching and research at the end of the academic year, according to a College press release. Biron, who was hired in 2006 as a professor of Spanish and comparative literature, has served as Dean of the College for three years.










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College appoints members to sexual misconduct committee

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The College announced the members of the Presidential Steering Committee on Sexual Misconduct, which will review College policies on sexual misconduct, ensure they are clear and present recommendations on policy development, education and training. The committee members, announced on Feb.


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College will not expand undergraduate enrollment

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The College will not expand undergraduate student enrollment, Board of Trustees chair Laurel Richie ’81 announced in a campus-wide email. The decision was made during the Board’s most recent meeting from March 1 to 3 following consideration of a report from the Task Force for Enrollment Expansion.





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Months later, still no on-campus grad housing available

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Since the College elected last fall to reclassify the North Park apartments as undergraduate rather than graduate housing, graduate students at Dartmouth have worked to form a united front and increase communication with the administration. Last spring, the admissions yield of approximately 1,279 students for the Class of 2021, which dean of the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies F.


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Course aims to help students unpack study abroad experiences

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College Course 21, “What’s in Your Shoebox?” — a new course being offered next term — will allow international students and those who have completed a foreign study program to reflect on their experiences abroad and increase their intercultural sensitivity. The course, listed under the interdisciplinary “College Course” department, is designed to allow students to “come together and spend 10 weeks [in the spring term] unpacking and reflecting upon their study aboard experiences,” said Francine A’Ness, associate director and assistant research professor at the Frank J.




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Unconventional Pedagogy

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In a 2016 announcement about the “Liberal Arts Imperative,” College President Phil Hanlon said that Dartmouth “serves as a laboratory for intellectual innovation.” Each course at Dartmouth fulfills this mission differently.