Star prof. Edsforth not rehired by dept.
Leaving Dartmouth after 11 years as a visiting history professor, Ronald Edsforth simply tells people he has been made "redundant." Although he was not fired, Edsforth will not return to Dartmouth next year, because there are no classes left for him to teach. Many of Edsforth's students and colleagues, meanwhile, lament his being forced to leave Dartmouth. The history department renewed Edsforth's one-year visiting contract annually, relying on him to teach courses made available by full-time faculty who were away or on sabbatical. "For all these years, history has always had courses to keep me employed," Edsforth said. But new hires in the history department and more faculty present on campus leave no room for Edsforth next year, given College policies about courses full-time faculty must teach and the number of courses allotted to the history department. Edsforth was also responsible for making the war and peace studies program more visible and popular.