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| Kenneth S. Yalowitz | |
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| The Norman E. McCulloch, Jr. Director The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding Dartmouth |
Bio: Ambassador Yalowitz holds a Russian Institute Certificate, MA and Master of Philosophy degree from Columbia University. He retired from the U.S. Department of State in 2001 after 36 years as career diplomat and member of the Senior Foreign Service. He served twice as a U.S. ambassador: to the Republic of Belarus from 1994-1997; and to Georgia from 1998-2001. He is the recipient of the Ambassador Robert Frasure award for peacemaking and conflict prevention.
Related: The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding was established in 1982 to honor Dartmouth's twelfth president (1945-70), John Dickey. One of Dickey's greatest accomplishments while president was to increase the international awareness of Dartmouth students and the international character of the Dartmouth campus. He set that priority from his first convocation address in 1946, proclaiming to Dartmouth's first post-war class that "the world's troubles are your troubles…and there is nothing wrong with the world that better human beings cannot fix."
The purpose of the Dickey Center, in the words of Dartmouth's Board of Trustees, is to "coordinate, sustain, and enrich the international dimension of liberal arts education at Dartmouth." To this end, the Dickey Center is committed to helping Dartmouth students prepare for a world in which local, national and global concerns are more strongly linked than ever. It strives to promote quality scholarly research at Dartmouth concerning international problems and issues, with an emphasis on work that is innovative and cross-disciplinary. And it seeks to heighten public awareness and to stimulate debate on pressing international issues.