We've already looked at examples of the College's misguided and costly egalitarianism in other areas (housing, parking and benefits), and a recent College missive shows that the idea still has currency. Last week, Director of Human Resources Traci Nordberg mailed an offer of generous incentives to Dartmouth' [...]
I don't have much to add about the squash court heckling controversy, except to observe that the comments were disgraceful and the situation was both embarrassing and quite exceptional. My family and I regularly attend Dartmouth men's and women's soccer and hockey games, and football and baseball games, and' [...]
At first glance President Kim's ongoing campaign for evidence-based, data-driven decision making at the College is incomprehensible -- at least to someone from the business world. I mean, how did Dartmouth's administrators make decisions in the past? With a Ouija Board? Or [...]
After we recently published the chart on the right concerning the history of comparative rates of giving by Dartmouth and Princeton alums to their respective schools, Dartblog received the below e-mail from a Dartmouth alumnus concerning the calculation of the percentage giving [...]
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I was worried that this would happen. Digging yourself out of a hole is tougher than getting into one in the first place. The Valley News reports that Dartmouth's employee labor union (Service Employees International Union Local 560) has thrown down the gauntlet in the face of looming budget cuts. [...]
Acting Provost Carol Folt and Senior V.P. Steven Kadish have sent out another extensive missive regarding the budget process, as they seek buy-in from the Dartmouth community. It will be interesting to see if collegiality is the order of the day once cuts are announced.
The full letter is in the [...]
Amazingly, despite years of comment, there are people who dispute that the College has a problem with oversubscribed courses.
In fact, the problem is so severe that Dartmouth's Registrar flags courses with a "CC" notation -- denoting Closed Course -- to alert students that they may well be shut out of' [...]
Grant Bosse '94 reports on his blog that he was the only Alumni Councillor to dissent from the Council's otherwise unanimous nomination (89-1) of only a single candidate for each of the two open Alumni Trustee slots:
The Dartmouth Alumni Council just voted 89-1 to nominate two candidates for the' [...]
Our colleague Joe Asch is in Haverhill, New Hampshire this morn to witness and report on the hearing in the Dartmouth College Case. Keep refreshing for Joe's dispatch.
[...]Call Snapple; we've found better stuff. A longtime correspondent writes, in response to our recent digestion of the latest filings in the Dartmouth College Case, Autour de Deux:
Joe, in your Dartblog post, you referenced the infamous [Director of Communications Diana] Pearson notes that came out in discovery. I have' [...]
At his presentation on Tuesday, President Kim said that he knew numerous alumni who wanted to see how Dartmouth handled the financial crisis before they made further charitable gifts to the College. He is right. The alumni revolt of the last few years [...]
"I have learned in preparing these answers that my bills were paid by Dartmouth College." -- Attorney Hilliard.
"...the most controversial question might be why the AoA, which is only elected for a year, would file to withdraw a suit with prejudice and prohibit future executive committees from acting differently." -- [...]
From today's D:
Kim, who said in the meeting with the Editorial Board that the College is still considering all of its options, added that he did not know whether Dartmouth would benefit from an external review [by outside consultants]. "If you pay someone a million or $2 million to find'" [...]Although the Dartmouth Fact Book provides extensive details on the admissions of different ethnic groups to the College, it does not offer any information at all on how successful these groups are at getting an education in Hanover and graduating -- which I think is the necessary bookend [...]
Two sweet-looking dudes are waiting to order at the Hop grill line. One sounds like he might not be from Dartmouth. One turns to the other.Bruce Wood has a well written piece on the Dartmouth Athletics website that illustrates the affection and respect that he has for the team. Bruce observes that at the end of this season there were only 14 players left on the squad from the Class of 2010, which had [...]
A Wall Street Journal writer remembers a 1940 Dartmouth football game in which good sportsmanship changed the outcome.
How to get into the Manchester Republican Committee’s Christmas Dinner, featuring Frank Guinta and Kelly Ayotte.
How to attend the Londonderry Democrats’ Holiday Homecoming Brunch.
The Border Patrol increases security along [...]
At its best, the College hires exceptional people and gives them the liberty to excel. The renaissance of the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir under Walter Cunningham is further proof, as if it were needed (but regrettably it is), that [...]
This is getting a little tedious. Everywhere I look, Dartmouth is providing benefits to its employees well above the odds: more than our Ivy sister schools and miles beyond the Upper Valley market. Today let's take a look at pension plan contributions.
When compared to Harvard, a school not lacking in' [...]
When you root around at any length in Dartmouth's compensation plans, you find generosities larded on top of absurdities -- all of which cost the College many millions of dollars each year to no discernable purpose. How about this astounding perk, the likes of which I' [...]
Today's new-look D has a piece long on generalities and short on specifics regarding the McKinsey report of several years ago. The PR folks seems to want to show that Dartmouth was ahead of the curve in bringing in consultants to re-order the sprawling' [...]
In the bad old days of Boeing Airlines, the company was known in Seattle as The Lazy B because of its slack work habits. To my mind Dartmouth has justly earned the sobriquet The Lazy D. To see what I mean on the ground, talk to students who try [...]
Every fall our corporate benefits expert approaches us with the bad news, and each year the conversation is remarkably similar:
"If you want to keep the same level of benefits for your employees and your family, the premium will go up 35%."
"We can't afford that."
"OK. Here is what other carriers are'" [...]
