The search has begun for Dartmouth's seventeenth president as President James Wright will step down in June of 2009.
Dartmouth Board Chair Ed Haldeman ’70 and Presidential Search Committee Chair Al Mulley ’70 are soliciting input on the search process.
Trustees Ed Haldeman Jr. '70 and Al Mulley '70 have engaged the campus and local alumni communities in conversations about the most important qualities the search committee should be looking for in Dartmouth's 17th president. A forum for the general faculty is scheduled for May 9, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in 105 Dartmouth Hall.
The Board of Trustees is granted final authority under the original Charter of Dartmouth College to establish such ". . . ordinances, order and laws as may tend to the good and wholesome government of the said College . . ." Other statutory functions of the Board include the appointment of faculty and principal administrative officers, the purchase and disposition of real property, the establishment of salary scales, and the awarding of degrees. In short, the Board of Trustees has ultimate responsibility for the financial, administrative and academic affairs of the College.
