Freedman, College president emeritus, dies at 70
James Oliver Freedman, Dartmouth’s 15th president, died last Tuesday after a more than 12-year battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 70 years old. More »
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Freedman’s legacy visible today
Shortly before his first academic year as Dartmouth president, James Oliver Freedman told the New York Times, “What I hope we are able to do at Dartmouth is to emphasize that the life of the mind is the central thing that this place is about.” More »
Freedman well received among faculty, students later follow
When President Emeritus James Freedman came to Dartmouth in 1987, he entered an institution that was still male-dominated, largely conservative and mired at the bottom of Ivy League academics. He instituted policies promoting diversity and intellectual openness that helped transform the College’s public image. While this caused some initial controversy among the student body, it drew enormous praise and popular support from the faculty and allowed Freedman to exit a very different institution when he resigned in 1998. More »
Diversity chief Harris unexpectedly resigns
Ozzie Harris II ‘81, the Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity, and Director of the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, clarified the reasons for his resignation after serving the College for 14 years with a statement released last Wednesday, citing “philosophic differences” with the College. More »
Alumni consider new constitution
About 80 Dartmouth alumni met last night in Boston while others listened in by webcast in a “town hall-style meeting” to discuss the newly proposed alumni constitution, which among other changes, would bring the elite Alumni Council and the much larger, but less active, Association of Alumni under one umbrella as the Alumni Association. More »
Alumnus, mogul broadcast journalist Beutel ‘53 dies
Distinguished journalist William Beutel ‘53 died in his home last Saturday in Pinehurst, N.C., following his long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. More »
