News Update: Dartmouth College

Dartmouth has passed the $1 billion mark in its $1.3 billion campaign to advance leading-edge teaching and scholarship, enhance residential and campus life, and honor its commitment to making education accessible.

Besides offering a broad range of undergraduate programs, Dartmouth grants graduate and professional degrees in the arts and sciences, business, engineering, and medicine.

Founded in 1769 and a member of the Ivy League, Dartmouth includes an undergraduate arts and sciences program and four graduate schools: Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and Tuck School of Business.

Wheelock moved with his small band of students up the Connecticut Valley to Hanover, New Hampshire, and assembled the first class of Dartmouth College in 1770 in a log hut.

In 2004, Booz Allen Hamilton selected Dartmouth College as a model of institutional endurance “whose record of endurance has had implications and benefits for all American organizations, both academic and commercial,” citing Trustees of Dartmouth College v.

The Faculty of Arts & Sciences also welcomes several new members, bringing something new and special to campus.

Private institution of higher learning in Hanover, N.H., a traditional member of the Ivy League.

is a private, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S. Incorporated as “Trustees of Dartmouth College,” it is a member of the Ivy League and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.

In 1754 the Congregational clergyman Eleazar Wheelock, a graduate of Yale, founded Moor’s Indian Charity School in Lebanon , Connecticut.

Dartmouth was founded by Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister from Connecticut, who sought to establish a school to train Native Americans as ministers to spread Anglo-American cultural precepts, particularly Protestant Christianity.

Under the presidency of William Jewett Tucker , Dartmouth underwent a major revitalization of facilities, faculty, and the student body.

Dartmouth College had its origins in the Indian missionary movement and in the mid-eighteenth-century evangelical revival.

Given the College’s isolated location, participation in athletics and the school’s Greek system is high.

Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees has approved a Leadership Statement which will guide the search for the College’s 17th president.

In addition to its undergraduate liberal arts program, Dartmouth has medical, engineering, and business schools, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences.

John Sloan Dickey, serving as president from 1945 until 1970, strongly emphasized the liberal arts, particularly public policy and international relations.

Dartmouth is located on a rural 269-acre campus in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire.

Meet some of the new faculty in the current issue of Vox of Dartmouth.

Dartmouth’s 34 varsity sports teams compete in the Ivy League conference of the NCAA Division I. Students are also well-known for preserving a variety of strong campus traditions.

Members of the Class of 2012 aren’t the only newcomers to the Dartmouth community this fall.

Winter term is celebrated by Winter Carnival, a tradition started in 1911 by the Dartmouth Outing Club to promote winter sports.

Wheelock’s ostensible inspiration for such an establishment largely resulted from his relationship with Mohegan Indian Samson Occom.

Established in 1769 by Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock with funds largely raised by the efforts of Native American preacher Samson Occom, the College’s initial mission was to acculturate and Christianize the Native Americans in the area.

Daniel Webster, an alumnus of the class of 1801, presented the College’s case to the Supreme Court of the United States, which found the amendment of Dartmouth’s charter to be an illegal impairment of a contract by the state and reversed New Hampshire’s takeover of the College.

Enrollment of women, and full acceptance of women’s participation in campus life, academics, and athletics occurred slowly but steadily.

Athletics and participation in the Greek system are the most popular campus activities; in all, Dartmouth offers more than 350 organizations, teams, and sports.

In 1769, Governor John Wentworth secured for Wheelock a sizable grant of land as well as a royal charter establishing the college, named for the earl of Dartmouth.

The struggle for control of the college had left it in a demoralized and impoverished state, and it fell to new president Nathan Lord in 1828 to restore its health and spirit.

Established in 1769 by Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock with funds partially raised by the efforts of Native American preacher Samson Occom, the College’s initial mission was to educate and Christianize the Native Americans in the area.

The summer term was formerly marked by Tubestock, an unofficial tradition in which the students used wooden rafts and inner tubes to float on the Connecticut River.