Dartmouth College has been subpoenaed as part of New York State’s investigation of the student loan industry. The subpoena, dated Feb. 14 and recently made public, was brought by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and was brought about by the College’s relationship with Bank of America. More »
The Dartmouth Board of Trustees nominated trustee Al Mulley ‘70 to chair the search committee for the College’s 17th president at the Board’s Winter term meeting this weekend. The trustees also voted to increase tuition by 4.9 percent for the 2008-2009 academic year. More »
For Milton Ochieng ‘04 and his brother Fred Ochieng ‘05, the isolation of their hometown in rural Kenya was made painfully clear when they witnessed a woman die of blood loss while in child labor as villagers pushed her in a wheelbarrow towards the paved road. This experience inspired the brothers to found the Ochieng Memorial Lwala Community Health Center, a clinic aimed at providing medical care to the mothers of Lwala, a village in Western Kenya. More »
The Registrar’s Office will soon be swarming with students filing major cards to solidify their status as majors in the government or economics departments, but each year a small group of students select majors that have never before been completed by students at the College. These students choose to pursue “a special major” in fields of study that fall outside of the College’s 57 defined majors. More »
Academics from around the world, including Australia, Turkey, California and Western Canada, converged on Hanover to participate in “The Gaze & The Veil: Surveillance and the Legacies of Orientalism,” a conference sponsored by the Ford Foundation and convened by Professor Susannah Heschel last weekend. The event brought together academics from disciplines ranging from law and philosophy to psychiatry to discuss both historical and contemporary views of Eastern culture and issues of suppression through surveillance. More »
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