Looking to cut back, College offers retirement incentives
Voluntary layoffs also to be extended through ‘staff option'
Voluntary layoffs also to be extended through ‘staff option'
In what Dean of Admissions Maria Laskaris said was partly a result of recent discussions on increasing class size to generate additional revenue, Dartmouth offered early admission to 461 students on Tuesday, 60 more than last year. "If there was a time if we are going to grow this was a great pool to do so with," Laskaris said. The College received a record 1,594 early applications, up from 1,571 last year.
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Akikazu Onda / The Dartmouth Staff Policymakers looking to reform the U.S.
Hoping to promote creationist ideology and refute Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, volunteers for the evangelist organization Living Waters distributed copies of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" featuring an added creationist introduction at Dartmouth on Nov.
NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. The alumni lawsuit filed against the College's Board of Trustees in November 2008 finally had its day in court on Friday in a hearing for the College's request for summary judgment, an attempt to have the judge, Timothy Vaughan, decide the case before it goes to full trial. The current suit is the second legal challenge to the Board's fall 2007 decision to increase its size, ending the balance between the number of trustees selected by the Board and elected by alumni. Counsel for both sides spent much of their time on Friday arguing whether the case should be dismissed as a result of the doctrine of res judicata, by which litigation cannot be filed for a case that has already been decided or that involves the re-litigation of an issue between the two same parties.
Council nominates Morton Kondracke '60 and John Replogle '88
Dartmouth, in suspending the search for a new chief investment officer and ceding control of the College's investment office to a Board of Trustees committee in November, created the potential for significant conflicts of interest several trustees are in the investment industry.
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Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff College President Jim Yong Kim assumed a professorial role in a major address on Dartmouth's financial situation on Tuesday, outlining the factors contributing to the College's current deficit and expanding on new ideas for revenue-boosting initiatives.
As a background in business is perceived to be increasingly important for medical professionals, the number of medical students turning to dual-degree MD-MBA programs to prepare them for the management side of health care delivery continues to rise. Interest in Dartmouth's MD-MBA program, which can be completed in five or six years, has increased by about 400 percent since 2004, according to Tuck School of Business health care initiatives director Donald Conway, who co-directs the joint degree program.
Zachary Kaufman '08 has been awarded a 2010 Marshall Scholarship to pursue a master's degree and Ph.D in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, according to a College press release.
Akikazu Onda / The Dartmouth Staff The renovation of the President's House on Webster Avenue is being financed entirely by private donors, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in his budget presentation on Tuesday, meaning at least $92.8 million of the $147.8 million cost associated with the College's three major construction projects is covered by private gifts. Despite unexpected electrical problems uncovered during construction, the President's House project is slated for completion by next February, according to director of planning, design and construction Stephen Campbell. Kim said in his presentation that as a result of the private donations, the cost of the President's House renovations will be "off the books of Dartmouth College." The renovation is necessary, Kim said, both to allow for the house to be used for fundraising and to address significant safety concerns. "I came into a situation where there was a house that was built in 1926 in which the heating system, the plumbing and part of the electrical system hadn't been changed in 83 years," Kim said.
ZACH KUSTER / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth, which owns the Hanover Inn, has agreed to pay $2,000 in fines for several hundred labor law violations at the Inn including immigration violations, and wage and hour violations in a settlement with the New Hampshire Department of Labor.
As Dartmouth's 23 percent endowment loss may bring increased scrutiny to the financial strategy underpinning the College's investment portfolio, the ethics of Dartmouth's investments will continue to be weighed by an Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility. Dartmouth's currently has holdings in companies ranging from Wal-Mart to Lockheed Martin. For each company of which Dartmouth is a shareholder, the ACIR makes recommendations on every "proxy resolution" that involves social issues, Allegra Lubrano, ACIR executive administrator, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
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The spread of the H1N1 virus appears to be slowing, Inside Higher Ed reported on Monday. According to a weekly report by the American College Health Association, there were a total of 3,933 new cases of influenza-like illnesses between Nov.