By Turia Lahlou, The Dartmouth Staff
Dartmouth's endowment fell 6 percent, or $220 million, in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, which began July 1 and ended Sept. 30, Ed Haldeman '70, chairman of the Board of Trustees, said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The Board learned of the drop, which now leaves the endowment at $3.44 billion, during its November meeting last weekend, but the extent of the endowment's October decline is not yet available, according to College President James Wright.
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By Susan Matthews, The Dartmouth Staff
The presidential search committee to find a successor for retiring College President James Wright has met with potential candidates and experts who specialize in higher education leadership searches, and is on target to begin interviewing candidates in January, Al Mulley '70, a member of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the committee, said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Mulley would not release the names of the candidates.
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By Manisha Apte
President-elect Barack Obama will inherit an inauspicious slate of challenges, the likes of which have not confronted incoming presidents in decades, when he begins his term in January, an interdisciplinary panel of professors agreed. The panel, "Change? The 2008 Elections: Outcomes, Consequences, and Next Steps," evaluated the consequences of Obama's Tuesday victory in terms of executive advice, trade policy, health-care policy and social and welfare policy Friday before an overflowing audience in the Rockefeller Center.
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By Shaun Akhtar
Five days after hundreds of students staged a spontaneous celebration across campus following the victory of President-elect Barack Obama, approximately 70 members of the Dartmouth community gathered together for a second Obama celebration in Collis Common Ground on Sunday night. The gathering, titled "Yes We Can! Yes We Did! One Nation, One Celebration: A presidential celebration for the campus community," was billed as a cultural, rather than political, event and provided a showcase for students to display their artistic talents in support of Obama's election.
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By Greg Berger, The Dartmouth Staff
If there is a silver lining in the recent Wall Street meltdown, it may be the opportunity for Dartmouth seniors to pursue postgraduate options they would not have otherwise considered, like Teach For America, according to Monica Wilson, associate director of employer relations. Last Friday marked the end of the second of four rounds for TFA applications.
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By Shaun Akhtar and Manisha Apte
- A six-year study of Gates Millennium Scholarship Program applicants suggests that black students who major in "high-paying fields" tend to make less money immediately after graduating college than Asian-American and Hispanic-American students who major in the same fields, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. More »
- Voters narrowly rejected a proposed amendment to the Colorado state constitution last Tuesday that would have prohibited public schools and other state agencies from "discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin," according to Inside Higher Ed. More »
- "Looking after Siegfried Kracauer", an international conference, was held from Thursday to Saturday at the Haldeman Center. More »
