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During first week, Kim meets students, faculty

College President Jim Yong Kim has spent his first week in office touring laboratories, meeting with faculty and staff and even playing golf with undergraduates giving himself "a demanding schedule," Barry Scherr, College provost and the leader of Kim's transition team, said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Since Kim had no previous association with Dartmouth before becoming president, taking the time to gain familiarity with the College is a critical first step, many students interviewed by The Dartmouth agreed. "It's very easy to rush right into something without first getting an overall picture," Tyler Brace '11, summer president of the Inter-Fraternity Council, said.

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Kim selects four Presidential Fellows

July 9, 2009

College officials have chosen four recent Dartmouth graduates to serve as the inaugural Presidential Fellows in Global Studies and Higher Education under new College President Jim Yong Kim, Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt said in an interview with The Dartmouth on Wednesday.

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Scherr to stay on as provost up to June 2011

By Drew Joseph and Anya Perret | July 9, 2009

College Provost Barry Scherr, who had announced in March that he would leave his position before spring 2010, will continue to serve as provost through June 2011, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an e-mail to the Dartmouth community early Thursday morning. Scherr, who became provost in 2001, told The Dartmouth that Kim asked him to stay on for the first year of his presidency to help prepare for the College's reaccreditation hearing, which is scheduled to begin in November 2010.

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Four chosen to serve as inaugural Presidential Fellows

July 8, 2009

Correction appended College officials have chosen four recent Dartmouth graduates to serve as the inaugural Presidential Fellows in Global Studies and Higher Education under new College President Jim Yong Kim, Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt said in an interview with The Dartmouth on Wednesday.

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Hanover Planning Board postpones vote on Arts Center

By Mitch Davis and Anya Perret | July 8, 2009

The Hanover Planning Board delayed an expected vote on the College's proposed design for a Visual Arts Center on Tuesday evening, after Board and community members raised concerns about the design's effect on the Hanover downtown area. The Board's decision to postpone the vote comes just weeks after the College received a $50-million gift commitment, the largest in Dartmouth history, to enable the College to move forward with the project. The Planning Board had been scheduled to vote on the Arts Center's final design at the meeting.

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Police Blotter

By Rebecca Cress | July 6, 2009

Thursday, July 2, 4:38 p.m.Choate Road A male high school student attending a debate camp held at the College was arrested and charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct following an event that took place on Saturday, June 27.

Haldeman would face Treasury Department confirmation if he were to be appointed CEO.
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Haldeman up for Freddie CEO

By Anya Perret and Mitch Davis | July 6, 2009

Courtesy of Joseph Mehling '69 Correction appended Dartmouth Board of Trustees Chairman Ed Haldeman '70 is the leading candidate for chief executive officer of Freddie Mac, the beleaguered government-sponsored loan organization, according to several media reports that cited anonymous sources.

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Daily Debriefing

By Rebecca Cress and Anya Perret | July 6, 2009

In a decision that may impact many colleges and universities, facilities that perform research on animals will now be required to release more information about experiments that may have caused animal subjects pain and distress, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Program teaches workplace skills

By Lauren Rosenbaum | July 6, 2009

The Dartmouth Professional Student Workshop, a three-week program created by four Dartmouth sophomores, is providing over 40 students an opportunity to hone their professional skills this summer. Karen Doster '11, Turia Lahlou '11, Megan Senn '11 and Jack Wang '11 developed the program after participating in the Rockefeller Center's Civic Skills Training Program, a five-day seminar that takes place in Washington, D.C., and is designed to provide students with necessary professional skills for the workplace.

SEAD, a three-year program for low-income high school students, includes language and science courses taught by Dartmouth faculty and staff.
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Academic mentoring program SEAD begins ninth year

By Vera Bergengruen | July 6, 2009

Andy Mai / The Dartmouth Staff Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth, a three-week program that aims to expand the educational opportunities of high school students from select under-resourced urban and rural schools, began its ninth summer session this week. SEAD participants are selected through a competitive application process based on academic promise and all of the students are eligible for the Federal Free-Lunch subsidy, according to the SEAD web site.

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Usman receives three years probation, fine

By Emily Goodell | July 6, 2009

Mohammad Usman, a former member of the Class of 2010 who pled guilty in April to having committed $18,615 in financial aid fraud, was sentenced last week to three years of probation, including six months of home detention.

College President Jim Yong Kim speaks to members of the Dartmouth community gathered on the Green on Wednesday.
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Kim addresses Dartmouth community on Green

By Susan Matthews | July 1, 2009

ZACH INGBRETSEN / The Dartmouth Senior Staff / The Dartmouth Senior Staff In a public address to the Dartmouth community on his first day as College President, Jim Yong Kim said that it was the passion he believes Dartmouth students and alumni hold for the College that inspired him to forgo other career opportunities and accept the position of Dartmouth's 17th president. "When I was first asked, there were other things in the wind," Kim said in his speech, hinting at another opportunity, which he called a "complicated" job in "very big city down South." Kim told the students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered on the Green that it was his belief in the ability of Dartmouth students to take on global problems broader than those of his own work that led him to forgo those other career possibilities. "It's a gamble for me but it's a gamble that I took knowing that we were going to win," Kim said, referencing his confidence in the potential of the College's students. Since being announced as Dartmouth's 17th president, Kim has met with alumni, students and faculty, which he said has allowed him to understand the special bond that the College fosters. "I was convinced that if I could do a good job, we together as a community would do things the likes of which the world has never seen," Kim said in his speech, adding later, "Every single [member of the Class of 2011] can change the world, and indeed must change the world and make it a better place." In an address at the Tuck School of Business earlier in the day on Wednesday, Kim said he believes that Dartmouth offers the best undergraduate education in the world, pointing to the College's commitment to need blind admissions for all applicants as one of the College's particular strengths.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Goodell | June 30, 2009

The New Hampshire state government is taking steps to curtail algae blooms in New Hampshire, fearing that they could pose a health hazard, The Nashua Telegraph reported.

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Kim addresses Greek life, alcohol policy

By Josh Roselman | June 30, 2009

Newly instated College President Jim Yong Kim, who will begin work on Wednesday overseeing an institution that has historically prided itself on maintaining a distinctive student culture, told The Dartmouth in an interview that many of his policies involving important aspects of Dartmouth's social scene will remain incomplete until he has a better feel for life at the College which he termed "an incredibly complicated place." "It's going to take me a year to figure out how the place works," Kim said. Although Kim emphasized that he will take his first year as president to learn more about social life at Dartmouth, he did express initial views on several important campus issues. Kim said that while he is aware that alcohol consumption occurs at Dartmouth, he does not think it occurs more often than at other universities.

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