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 For up-to-date information,
please visit the Dartmouth Centers Forum's official site at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~centersforum/DCF.
The six multidisciplinary centers at Dartmouth College including the John
Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Nelson A. Rockefeller
Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, the Ethics Institute, the
Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities, the William Jewett Tucker
Foundation, and the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning have
recently formed an collaborative alliance called the Dartmouth Centers
Forum.
The Dartmouth Centers Forum seeks to respond to growing political,
ideological, social and intellectual dissonance in the academy and society and
members hope to create an enabling environment for constructive thinking and
open dialogue campus-wide about current issues of the day. Activities
will include faculty research and curricular enhancement seminars, public
events, facilitated student dialogues, and program assessment that will inform
future planning. The Forum has chosen the subject of Religion and Politics as
the first issue for examination for the calendar year 2006.
As its first effort, the Dartmouth Centers Forum is supporting the public
lecture sponsored by the Ethics Institute on academic freedom and scholarship
delivered by Dorsett Fellow, Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University.
The next Forum supported event will be the first Celment Road Forum (a faculty
dialogue group organized by the Tucker Foundation), on October 13th at 4:30
pm. Faculty who would like to discuss the implications of President
Bollinger's remarks on academic freedom are welcome to attend this event.
Please contact Todd Kilburn at
the Tucker Foundation for details.
Individual Centers will also work with student groups to encourage further
reflection on issues raised by President Bollinger. Members of the faculty and
student organizations are invited to contact any of the respective Centers for
more information. Future programs of the Dartmouth Centers Forum will be
announced on a regular basis.
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