Forums discuss diversity
On Tuesday, the two last community forums were held to discuss the community study and diversity working groups, the reports of which were released earlier this month.
On Tuesday, the two last community forums were held to discuss the community study and diversity working groups, the reports of which were released earlier this month.
The Asian American Coalition for Education, a group consisting of more than 130 Asian American organizations, announced the filing of civil rights violation complaints against Dartmouth College, Yale University and Brown University on Monday.
The food options at Dartmouth College are many, but what happens to the leftovers? The “FREE FOOD @NOW” GroupMe’s 1,062 members stand as an answer to that question.
Tong Fei has just started her position as the healthy relationships and sexual health specialist, a new role created within the Health and Wellness Center
The College filed a motion on May 16 with the Hanover Zoning Board of Adjustment for a rehearing of the board’s decision to allow Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity to remain classified as a student residence under Hanover zoning laws.
Green Key arrests by the Hanover Police Department rose to 22 this past weekend, up from 17 last year and down from 34 in 2014.
Yesterday afternoon, around 100 faculty members, in their last faculty meeting of the 2015-2016 academic year, voted to not change the non-recording option, approved the continuation of the Jewish studies program and a five-year plan for faculty compensation.
In a survey conducted by The Dartmouth, 342 students shared their perspectives on the College’s campus climate in regards to gender.
The liberal arts experience promises a well-rounded education to students. Despite exposure to multiple fields of study, majors are often broken up along gender lines.
Amarna Founded in 1994, the undergraduate society Amarna takes its name from a city in ancient Egypt founded by Akhenaten’s wife, Queen Nefertiti, Amarna’s president Breanna McHugh ’17 said.
Throughout her freshman year at Dartmouth, Rachel Patel ’17 was interested in becoming involved with scientific research.
Though the College generally matches its peers in the Ivy League in female representation and outperformed other schools across the country, women remain underrepresented in all of Dartmouth’s graduate schools, both in the student body and on the faculty.
In 2013, current Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth director Annabel Martín, the then-women’s, gender and sexuality studies department chair, and four faculty members got together to brainstorm a research center to bring together a wide array of professors to study gender. Then-interim president Carol Folt initially helped direct funding towards the program, Martín said.
It was the fall of 1971, and the country was roiling in issues of desegregation, women’s rights, movements for the rights of indigenous peoples and protests against the war in Vietnam.
The College’s Committee Advisory to the President’s decision to deny tenure to Aimee Bahng — an English professor who is also affiliated women‘s, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature and African and African American studies — has been met with criticism from students, faculty and alumni in the Dartmouth community. The decision came in spite of many positive assessments of Bahng by leading scholars in her field and her own departments.
The Senate confirmed Eric Fanning ’90 as the secretary of the United States Army on Tuesday. The appointment makes him the first openly gay secretary of any military branch, as well as the highest-ranking openly gay official at the Pentagon.
Last week, Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens ’78 and Karen Kinzle Zegel, mother of Dartmouth alumnus Patrick Risha ’06, testified before the House of Representatives’ energy and commerce committee’s subcommittee on investigations. The committee had convened a panel of expert witnesses to discuss concussions in youth sports — and how they can prevented.
Students and senior administrators discussed the results of the Rankin & Associates October campus climate survey, the sustainability of working groups and the role of the administration at a community forum sponsored by Palaeopitus senior society last night.
Student leaders at the College released a petition on Monday critiquing the administration and urging the Board of Trustees and College administrators to “depart from the realm of student life” and instead focus on fiscal decisions they say will enhance campus intellectual and social climate.
This year, over a dozen seniors have secured national scholarships to pursue further study after commencement.