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From: Barry Scherr, Provost and Bob Donin, General Counsel
To: President's Administrative Forum
Re: International Office
We are writing to let you know that as of July 1, the International Office's
administrative reporting line will shift from Dan Nelson in the Dean of the
College Office to Bob Donin, the College's General Counsel. As you know from
reading the summary of the recent McKinsey Report on administrative functioning
at the College, this shift was recommended because of the increasing importance
and volume of federal regulatory and compliance issues in the work of the
International Office. It also reflects the fact that undergraduate students are
actually the smallest part of the broad international population now served by
the office at Dartmouth. That being said, the International Office will
continue to maintain a very close working relationship with the Dean of the
College area. Steve Silver, the director of the Office, will, for example,
continue to attend Deans and Directors meetings and Student Affairs Council
meetings. The International Office will also have a dotted-line reporting
relationship to the Office of the Provost, since the Office increasingly
interacts with academic and administrative departments throughout the
College.
We look forward to working together to continue to effectively serve
international students, scholars, faculty, and staff as we seek, in the words
of the College Mission Statement, to prepare students for life in a world "in
which the ability to understand and appreciate differences and similarities
among all people and societies is essential."
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