Reaccreditation team comes to Dartmouth
A committee from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges will evaluate Dartmouth this week as part of a reaccreditation process held every 10 years.
A committee from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges will evaluate Dartmouth this week as part of a reaccreditation process held every 10 years.
Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Campion's Women's Shop on Main Street a Hanover staple for as long as a century will close as soon as it sells its remaining inventory, according to store manager Teri Valentine. The current Campion's location has been open for 17 years, according to Valentine.
Due to naturally-occurring hormones found in dairy products, the consumption of milk may increase the likelihood of developing acne, according to an article authored by Dartmouth Medical School dermatology professor Bill Danby.
The Tuck School of Business was ranked first in MBA employment rates for graduate business schools nationwide by Bloomberg Businessweek.
Andy Foust / The Dartmouth Staff Andy Foust / The Dartmouth Staff Actions controlled by individual motivation are rational, reflective or purposeful, but individuals have little control over actions driven by chance, according to Robert Pippin, a professor of social thought and philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Art history professor Angela Rosenthal died Thursday morning surrounded by family and friends, her husband, Adrian Randolph also an art history professor at the College said in a statement. Colleagues and students described Rosenthal as full of energy and passionate about the art she sought to share with students.
Andy Foust / The Dartmouth Staff Andy Foust / The Dartmouth Staff U.S.
Officials at the College Board have decided to reintroduce the Advanced Placement Italian test, The Washington Post reported.
Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff *Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a three-part series investigating race at the College.
Faculty, alumni and students interviewed by The Dartmouth said they expect newly-elected Trustee Annette Gordon-Reed '81 to offer a distinctive perspective on College issues that will enhance the discussion among members of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. The Board selected Gordon-Reed, a historian and law scholar, to fill the seat vacated by outgoing Trustee Al Mulley '70 at its November meeting, The Dartmouth previously reported.
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Many individuals take an incomplete approach when considering leadership by studying only good leadership, though it is equally important to study followers and poor leaders, visiting public policy professor Barbara Kellerman said in a lecture on Wednesday. Kellerman, who is spending the Fall term at the College while on leave from her post at the John F.
Protests against the British government's plans to increase tuition and cut government financing for universities became violent on Wednesday, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Correction Appended *Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series investigating race at the College.
The alleged failure of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ensure the safety of medical devices is the subject of an investigative report, "Why the FDA can't protect the public," co-authored by Dartmouth researcher Shannon Brownlee. Brownlee, a Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice instructor, and Jeanne Lenzer, a medical investigative journalist, released a year-long study examining the 1997 approval of Cyberonics's vagus nerve stimulator.
Student Assembly and the College's Alcohol and Other Drug Education Program are looking for students to design a poster that outlines the risks of mixing energy drinks and alcohol.
Correction Appended Expanding upon a campus-wide response to the January earthquake in Haiti, Dartmouth students, faculty and administration have revamped relief efforts to address the recent outbreak of cholera in Port-Au-Prince and surrounding towns, according to Presidential Fellow Molly Bode '09, who serves as the Dartmouth Haiti Response Coordinator. "We sent medical supplies such as antibiotics, as well as sanitary supplies like Clorox, mops, buckets and diapers," Bode said.
After one student's refusal to donate to the Senior Class Gift sparked controversy last Spring, Dartmouth has faced criticism from several national media outlets in recent weeks for allegedly encouraging student volunteers to directly pressure individual students to donate.
Editor's Note: This is the first installment in a three-part series investigating race at the College. The Dartmouth College Charter states that, "there be a College erected in our said Province of New Hampshire by the name of DARTMOUTH COLLEGE for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of Learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans." Through the College's evolution from that 1769 document to today when the College is led by a Korean-American College President Jim Yong Kim students and staff have continued to engage in activism and sought to increase the diversity of the student body, often challenged by those opposed to such change. The Charter's expressed goal of educating Native Americans was not fully embraced until 200 years after it was written, though attempts to promote diversity have been made throughout history.
Emily Van Gemeren / The Dartmouth Staff Emily Van Gemeren / The Dartmouth Staff The Dickey Center for International Understanding decided to discontinue its War and Peace Studies minor in February, due to both the declining interest in the minor and the rise in popularity of the new International Studies minor, according to Victoria Hicks, the assistant to the director of the Dickey Center. The War and Peace Steering Committee began deliberations about eliminating the minor in March 2008 after enrollment in the program declined, government professor Daryl Press said.