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Business Ethics Helplines

Dartmouth has established channels for asking questions about regulatory compliance, seeking guidance about College policies or procedures, or reporting suspected violations of law, policy, or business ethics. Reports may be made anonymously.

 

5. Why was the Associated Program Cost component of distributions from endowment introduced?

Under prior policy, only Direct Program Costs were supported by the distributions from endowed funds. As a result, non-endowment revenues were unreasonably encumbered with significant expense clearly associated with and essential for - but not actually charged to - endowed activities. After considering this outcome, the Trustees concluded that failure to apply endowment support to all costs of any particular program in effect resulted in a subsidization of that program's full costs from other resources needed for other purposes.

Last Updated: 10/15/09