The Board of Trustees will be on campus this weekend for their annual Winter term meeting and are scheduled to discuss the progress of the presidential search and the College's budget for the next year.
Stephen Bosworth, chairman of the Board of Trustees -- and the United States Ambassador to South Korea -- said although the Trustees will meet with the Presidential Search Committee, the Dartmouth community should not expect any breaking news.
"We will be making no announcement on the search, that I can assure you," Bosworth said with a chuckle.
The Presidential Search Committee will give a full report to the Trustees on the progress of the search and the candidates they are now reviewing.
The names of candidates are not released to the public due to concerns for their privacy -- since many are applying though they currently hold positions at other universities.
Five of the 15 members of the Board of Trustees already serve on the search committee, including the search's chair, William King '63.
"For the Trustees who are not on the search committee -- like me -- this weekend will give new information and it should be interesting," Bosworth said.
According to Bosworth, the committee is on track in the process of interviewing candidates.
"From the extent that I have been following the search, it is on schedule and making progress," Bosworth said.
During the last presidential search in 1987, the announcement of James Freedman as David McLaughlin's successor came one day after the Spring term Trustee meeting.
In addition to the presidential search, the Trustees will conduct its quarterly examination of the College budget.
"On one level it is a standard board meeting, dealing with the budget ... and the prospective level of fees for next year," Bosworth said.
Dean of the College Lee Pelton, President Freedman and Provost Jim Wright will all deliver unspecified reports to the Trustees.
