Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees has retained the executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to advise the College’s presidential search committee in its hunt for the College’s next president, according to an e-mail sent to the Dartmouth community by Board Chairman Ed Haldeman ‘70 and Trustee Al Mulley ‘70 Wednesday afternoon. The Board first made the announcement at a meeting with the Alumni Council on Saturday, the e-mail said. The firm’s founder, John Isaacson ‘68, will lead the firm’s search efforts.
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The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have selected Dartmouth as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research for the years 2008-2013, a distinction that provides the College with opportunities for shared research, as well as increased undergraduate access to scholarships, grants and internships in the information assurance field.
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Two recent Dartmouth graduates, in collaboration with a teacher from a high school in south Bronx, N.Y., have begun a program that will transfer Dartmouth students’ old laptop computers to the hands of students at New Day Academy, in an effort to improve the education of underprivileged youth. The academy, which teaches grades six through 12, was founded in 2005 to replace Theodore Roosevelt Gathings Middle School, a failing school in the area.
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Ninety years ago Dartmouth began rejecting qualified Jewish applicants based on nothing other than their religion. Sixty years ago the College removed these quotas for the first time. Thirty years ago the College hired its first rabbi. Ten years ago it opened the Roth Center, the first official Jewish space on campus. Today, the College boasts a healthier, more intense, more vibrant Jewish community than at any time in its history, according to historians and Jewish leaders on campus.
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The authority of Russia’s recently elected president Dmitry Medvedev is not a “sham,” James Collins, U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation from 1997 to 2001, said in a lecture in Dartmouth Hall Wednesday afternoon. Collins argued that Russia could experience fundamental political changes now that former president Vladimir Putin has assumed the position of prime minister.
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