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The Dartmouth
March 29, 2026
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The College hosts Mandela Washington Fellows

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Dartmouth hosted 25 young African leaders over the summer through its partnership with the Young African Leaders Initiative’s Mandela Washington Fellowship. The Mandela Washington Fellowship has been YALI’s highly competitive flagship program since its inception in 2014.


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Ross Douthat speaks about political caricatures in film

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“Imagine that an alien from Mars arrives and you can communicate [with] them, inform them, discuss politics with them only through movies.” Ross Douthat, a conservative voice for The New York Times and film critic for the National Review, posited the scenario to begin his speech to a room full of students, faculty and local residents on Monday afternoon.







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Women's vote confers wide-ranging benefits

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Women’s suffrage accomplished far more than simply giving women the right to vote, according to a new working paper. In “Who Benefitted From Women’s Suffrage?” published in August, three economists — the College’s Na’ama Shenhav, Bucknell University’s Esra Kose and Southern Methodist University’s Elira Kuka — found that economically disadvantaged children benefited significantly after women gained the right to vote. The researchers found that women’s suffrage increased children’s “educational attainment,” which includes how long they stayed in school and their literacy levels, as well as their future incomes.














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