About the East Wheelock Cluster

Dartmouth is a community of accomplished faculty and talented students dedicated to learning. We recognize that an individual's social and intellectual life are not mutually exclusive experiences, but rather experiences that demand integration in a dynamic, student-directed environment.

Dartmouth designed a residential option in support of these learning principles that incorporates a broad range of educational and social programs designed to foster closer interaction between faculty and students. Since 1996, the East Wheelock Cluster has been the site for this residential experience. The Cluster includes 314 students residing in four distinct buildings: Morton, Zimmerman, Andres and McCulloch Halls.

The East Wheelock Cluster includes a private residence for the Cluster Faculty Associate, who shares      responsibility for those activities designed to foster student and faculty interaction. Professor Susan Brison has served as the Faculty Associate since 2006. The Faculty Associate has a substantial programming budget to support dinner discussions with prominent national scholars and artists, trips to places of interest, small musical and dramatic productions and other such programs. The Associate also enlists members of the faculty to serve as faculty affiliates in order to help coordinate guest lectures and discussions in the cluster, as well as provide advice and counsel for students outside the classroom.

Susan Brison
Faculty Associate

First-year Dean John Pfister, who also teaches in the Psychology and Brain Sciences department, provides academic and personal advising as the cluster dean. Community Director Tessa Tyson assists the Faculty Associate, Susan Brison and Dean Pfister in designing residential life programs and supervises the undergraduate advisors (student peer advisors) the Cluster Council and Service Corps. Graduate Student Advisor, Max Rogers  resides in the cluster and maintains informal and continuous contact with students, especially about issues of post-graduate scholarships and fellowships and graduate school options. Administrative Assistant Judy MacNeil runs the cluster office in Brace Commons, schedules all events and programs, and keeps us all feeling right at home.

Residential Fellows, Soo"Sunny" Park and Brian Burnett , reside near the cluster and help coordinate student programs.  

Tessa Tyson and John Pfister keep office hours in the Brace Commons offices.  Soo "Sunny" Park and Brian Burnett live in the rear townhouse at 13 East Wheelock. Susan Brison keeps office hours at the front house of 13 East Wheelock.

• Full size panorama of the East Wheelock Cluster

• The Faculty Associates' Residence "The White House" at 13 East Wheelock Street    

"The East Wheelock Cluster furthers an environment in which learning takes place as much in residence facilities as in classrooms, and in which students and faculty come closer together..."

M. Lee Pelton, Former Dean of the College

 

Fall 2008 Events Calendar

 

Cluster Personnel
Faculty Associate
Susan Brison

Cluster Dean
John Pfister

Community Director
Tessa Tyson

Residential Fellows,
Soo"Sunny" Park and Brian Burnett

Graduate Advisor
Max Rogers

Administrative Assistant
Judy MacNeil