Sexual Respect website launched Tuesday
A new webpage highlighting all resources available to survivors of sexual violence was launched Tuesday by Dartmouth’s Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer Heather Lindkvist.
A new webpage highlighting all resources available to survivors of sexual violence was launched Tuesday by Dartmouth’s Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer Heather Lindkvist.
Dartmouth’s first massive online open course, “Introduction to Environmental Science,” launched Tuesday morning as part of the DartmouthX program on the Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed website edX. The six-week course focuses on biodiversity, energy and global change and currently has over 8,500 people enrolled worldwide, environmental studies professor and course lead Andrew Friedland said.
A Voluntary Support of Education survey ranked Dartmouth as the fourth highest charitable donation contributor per student from private research institutions, VSE survey director Ann Kaplan said. The results of survey, which were released last Wednesday, revealed that Dartmouth raised over $250 million in charitable donations in fiscal year 2014, a 56 percent increase from the previous year’s $160 million in donations.
While students and faculty have expressed mixed reactions to College President Phil Hanlon’s new set of social and academic reforms announced last week, alumni leaders of Greek house have voiced general support of the policies.
The geography department and African and African-American studies program are introducing a new course for the upcoming spring term called “10 Weeks, 10 Professors: #BlackLivesMatter,” dedicated to considering race, structural inequality and violence in both a historical and modern context.
Dartmouth Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers’ petition to the Library of Congress last summer to use the word “undocumented” instead of “illegal” when describing immigrants in subject headings was not approved, the group announced in early January.
Dartmouth’s new hard alcohol ban, announced by College President Phil Hanlon on Thursday, will likely lead to an increase in sales for some local businesses, while others are unlikely to see changes, local business owners and town officials said.
Four students shared their experiences with intersectionality at the first of a four panel series hosted by V-February on Sunday afternoon. An annual campaign sponsored by the Center for Gender and Student engagement, V-February is aimed at promoting gender equality and ending violence against women through performance and discussion.
The College entered the national media spotlight again last week as College President Phil Hanlon announced his Moving Dartmouth Forward plan, with most coverage focusing on the decision to ban hard alcohol on campus.
In a Thursday morning speech outlining a new social doctrine for Dartmouth, College President Phil Hanlon announced a campus-wide ban on hard alcohol — beverages containing more than 15 percent alcohol by volume — to be enforced the beginning of spring term and the mandatory presence of third-party bartenders and bouncers at parties hosted by Dartmouth or College-recognized organizations. Hanlon also reaffirmed the continuation of the Greek system, but said that its existence could be revisited in the coming years.
College President Phil Hanlon announced new initiatives for residential life, including a complete redesign of the undergraduate housing model. Beginning with the Class of 2019, incoming Dartmouth students will be randomly assigned to one of six dormitory clusters. Beginning their sophomore year, these students will live in these assigned clusters for the remaining three years of their undergraduate experience. The College will commit $1 million annually to fund the social, academic and intramural programming in these residence communities.
Reactions to the announcement of a hard alcohol ban, new residential communities and increased academic rigor were mixed following President Hanlon’s unveiling of his Moving Dartmouth Forward policies Thursday morning. Faculty members interviewed generally supported the academic aspects while students were mixed on specific policies and the overall enforceability.
A residential community system, a campus-wide ban on hard alcohol, a mandatory four-year sexual violence prevention and education program and a code of conduct are among the changes College President Phil Hanlon announced this morning as part of the Moving Dartmouth Forward plan.
This morning at 8:30 a.m., College President Phil Hanlon will announce his plans for Moving Dartmouth Forward. The plan is expected to address issues centering on alcohol policy, sexual assault and exclusivity at the College.
Jake Sullivan, a foreign affairs expert currently on the United States Iran nuclear negotiations delegation, spoke in a public conversation with Dickey Center director Daniel Benjamin last night in Haldeman.
Ready for Hillary, the leading super PAC that has been raising money in anticipation of a Hillary Clinton presidential run, will be hosting a Hanover area organizing meeting tonight, an event that marks the first major initiative of the organization in Hanover in the early stages of the 2016 election cycle. While there are not any Republican super PACs mobilizing in New Hampshire that are as prominent as Ready for Hillary, potential GOP presidential candidates have already begun to eye New Hampshire as an opportune place to start exploring the prospect of candidacy.
A campus-wide sexual assault climate survey will be implemented for the first time this spring term and will continue to be conducted on a recurring basis, campus Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist said.
Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said late last week that he has been encouraging a preexisting policy under which officers issue students a summons and turn them over to Dartmouth Safety and Security instead of arresting and processing students at the police station. Since he became chief in June, he has been evaluating police proceedings, and put in place a new policy starting Jan. 1 where Hanover Police will only be involved in the transport of intoxicated students from Dick’s House to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center if they are requested.
The faculty task force devoted to creating an administratively independent graduate school for advanced studies at the College has begun to focus on primary areas for the proposal and plans to submit a final proposal to Provost Carolyn Dever by the beginning of spring term, dean of graduate studies and task force chair Jon Kull said.
The English department is nearing the conclusion of three searches for assistant professor positions with a tenure track, an unusually high number of simultaneous recruiting efforts from the department, associate dean of the faculty and art history professor Adrian Randolph said in an email.