Despite cuts new profs. join College faculty
A group of 13 new faculty members, with interests ranging from electroacoustic music research to politics and public services for the rural poor of India, have joined Dartmouth's faculty this year in various departments across the College. While budget cuts have prevented some departments from completing searches to fill open positions, Mastanduno said he believes the quality of the faculty hired recently has been especially strong due to decreased hiring at other institutions. "Although we delayed a few searches, in the extent that we've been able to search, we've recruited really top people certainly in my division and I think across the College," he said. Dartmouth's focus on a "hybrid" of undergraduate teaching and advanced research attracts a self-selecting group of faculty, according to Michael Mastanduno, associate dean for the social sciences. "I think what we generally look for here are people who are both excellent teachers and excellent scholars," he said. As a fifth-grade teacher in a poor urban school district in the Boston area, Michele Tine found herself questioning why some students "seemed to learn in ways that were primarily different," she said.
