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Dartmouth houses over 2700 students in its 11 clusters. Size, facilities, and age vary but all residences are within a seven-minute walk of the Green. Each cluster is administered by a community director who is a professional staff member within the office of residential life. Approximately one-third of all student rooms are singles, the majority of which are occupied by upperclass students. The remaining rooms consist of one-, two-, and three-room doubles, triples, and quads. Halls are coed by room or floor. Among the common areas provided in all residence halls are a kitchen, TV room, study lounges, and a laundry room. All first year students are required to live on campus. Overall, 85% of students live on campus while 15% live off campus.
Substance Free Housing
Butterfield and Russell Sage are designated as substance-free residence halls (no alcohol, tobacco or illicit drugs in the building). Butterfield is an all upper-class community, while Russell Sage is mixed class. The first year residential program within the River cluster and the Choates typically has three or four residence halls designated substance-free, depending on the number of requests from the incoming class.
Other Alternative Housing Options
- The Maxwell/Channing Cox apartments, located behind the Thayer School of Engineering, include a kitchen, living room, and four bedrooms for upperclass students. Several of these apartments are designated affinity housing—the Hillel Jewish and Kade German Center apartments are examples.
- The East Wheelock Cluster, a residential housing option that encourages academic, social, and extracurricular interaction.
- Cutter-Shabazz Hall, home to the Afro-American Society (AAm), started in 1965, serves as a support group working to meet the social and cultural needs of Black students at Dartmouth. All students are encouraged to participate.
- The Asian Studies Center is located at 36 North Main Street and was established for students interested in studying Asian languages and cultures.
- La Casa, located at 42 College Street, provides a center for students interested in studying Hispanic, Latino, Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese cultures.
- The Latino Academic Affinity House accommodates 13 residents, a living space for a resident faculty member or a visiting scholar, a kitchen, and appropriate program and social space.
- The Native Americans at Dartmouth House serves as a center for Native American life and culture at the College.
- The International House at Brewster, houses 26 upperclass students and is a gathering place for international and US students interested in international affairs and issues.
- The Foley Cooperative houses 10 upperclass students and is a non-exclusive coed household where all residents share responsibilities and decision-making.
Key Figures in Residential Life
Undergraduate Advisor (UGA) is an upperclass student who serves as a resource and advisor to all residents on his/her assigned floor(s).
Community Director (CD) is a full-time, residence life professional who lives in a cluster and helps to facilitate individual and community development.
The Dartmouth Plan
Dartmouth has a unique academic schedule commonly known as the "D-Plan." This system, based on four ten-week terms per year, allows for students to engage in Dartmouth’s many off-campus study programs as well as numerous internship opportunities.
R! = On-campus term (required)
L = Leave term
R = On-campus term
O = Off-campus programs term
Among the required on-campus terms (R!) is the summer after sophomore year. In exchange for spending sophomore summer on campus, students may take a leave term at other times during sophomore or junior year.
Example #1: This student did an internship in Washington, D.C. sophomore spring and spent junior fall off-campus on the History Foreign Study Program (FSP) in London, England.
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Example 1
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Junior
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Senior
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Example #2: A more unusual plan. This student participated on the summer Chinese FSP after the first year, took a leave term sophomore fall, went on the English FSP in Dublin junior fall, and spent junior winter working for CNN in Beijing.
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Example 2
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Senior
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Study Abroad at Dartmouth
Dartmouth students also can take advantage of Dartmouth's over 40 study abroad programs; these programs include foreign language as well as non-language subjects.
Furthermore, Dartmouth participates in the 12-College Exchange Program with Amherst, Bowdoin, Connecticut College, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Trinity, Vassar, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Wheaton, and Williams, and has exchange programs with University of California at San Diego, McGill, Morehouse, Spelman, Stanford, and universities in Germany, Denmark, Japan and England (Oxford).
More than 50% of Dartmouth students study abroad at least once, the highest rate of participation among U.S. doctoral-granting institutions.
With the Massachusetts Halls on your left, look to your right. Next to McNutt Hall is Parkhurst Hall. Blunt Alumni Center (white building, more modern in style) is the next building to your right.
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