Albert Einstein once mocked, "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." One might think that education, above all else, would embrace and benefit from new methodologies and technologies.
As administrators undertake the task of improving the advising system, students interviewed by The Dartmouth offered a variety of criticisms of the current system such as students being paired with advisors who were unfamiliar with their academic interests and suggested ways of implementing the advising overhaul.
Fewer minority students, particularly blacks and Hispanics, are being admitted to elite colleges and universities, instead being sent to less competitive schools, according to a new study by University of Michigan researchers, The Chronicle of Higher Education 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.
Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment in a four-part series profiling professors who were recently awarded endowed chairs. Even while working in Washington, D.C., as chief economist on the Council of Economic Advisors, economics professor Andrew Samwick's love for his post at Dartmouth never waned even next to the prospect of more time in the capitol. "Washington for a second year or [coming] back to Hanover?" he said.
Courtesy of Charlie Nearburg Courtesy of Charlie Nearburg Charlie Nearburg '72 Th'74 always knew he wanted to race cars. The Thayer School of Engineering graduate said he first felt the rush of competition in go-kart races in junior high school.
Over 400 seniors participated in resume drop this month, 86 more students than last year's total, according to acting co-director of Career Services Monica Wilson.