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Dr.  Stuart Calvin Lord was appointed as Virginia Rice Kelsey '61S Dean of the Tucker Foundation and Associate Provost of Dartmouth College in August 2000.
Lord joined the Foundation from DePauw University, where he served as the Associate Dean of the University and Executive Director of the Hartman Center for Civic Education and Leadership. He also served as the Director of the Bonner Scholars Program and Professor of Ethics and Leadership.
As Dean of the Tucker Foundation, Lord is responsible for overseeing programs that involve community service, religious life, social justice, civic responsibility, leadership development, and that foster collaboration between undergraduate and graduate students.
Since his arrival at Dartmouth, Lord has furthered opportunities for character development as well as heightened awareness of civic responsibility by matching Dartmouth's resources to the needs of local and global communities. The programs he has initiated include: The Social Justice Lectureship Series; "What Matters to Me and Why?" an informal discussion between faculty and students; the Tucker Dialogues, the Digital Divide; and the Sophomore Summer of Service, which includes the annual the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program (for high school students) and the Sophomore Habitat for Humanity House. Lord also created the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life to further enhance Dartmouth's multi-faith opportunities, whose potential lies in the spiritual diversity of the Dartmouth community.
Lord has also led efforts to create two other, large-scale programs: The Cross Cultural Education and Service Program, a program that combines resources from Dartmouth's graduate schools to serve international communities, and the Civic Internship Program, which provides students with a first-hand understanding of the not-for-profit and philanthropy sector of higher education. Under Lord's leadership, student participation in community service at Dartmouth has risen from 55% to 75% in the last two years. Lord also raised five million dollars in his first year at Dartmouth, thereby enriching the endowment of the Tucker Foundation, and has set a goal of increasing the endowment by eighteen million dollars over the course of the next six years.
During his thirteen years at DePauw University, Lord was instrumental in the establishment and growth of the Hartman Center for Civic Education and Leadership and in the creation of the innovative Bonner Scholars Program at DePauw (part of the National Bonner Scholars Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, which provides annual scholarships for students volunteering in community service programs). When Lord arrived at DePauw University in 1987, 25% of the students participated in community service. When Lord left DePauw, over 93% of the student body, 1900 students, volunteered in community service programs. Lord also was instrumental in raising over five million dollars to endow Hartman Center programs.
In June of 1996, President William Clinton and General Colin Powell appointed Lord to serve as Executive Director of the President's Summit for America's Future. The President's Summit was a national volunteer initiative targeted at improving the quality of life for young people.
Lord sits on several educational and not-for-profit boards. He has recently served as a pacesetter for the local United Way campaign and is sought nationally as a keynote motivational speaker. Lord is the faculty advisor the Dartmouth Cross-Country and Track and Field teams and serves as a mentor to a local high school student. In addition, Lord is the editor of the book, Common Good, Common Ground, a collection of quotations from people of many cultures. The book is designed to help readers continue the hard work of building better communities and is sold to benefit the Campus Outreach Opportunity League.
Dr. Lord's research interests include: ethics and leadership; leadership practice and theory; AIDS education; multi-cultural education; and community research/service learning.
Lord was born in Westchester County, New York, and attended public schools in New Rochelle, New York. He completed his undergraduate work at Texas Christian University before going on to receive his Masters of Divinity and Masters of Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. Lord received his Doctor of Ministry from the United Theological Seminary with a specialization in multi-cultural education. He currently resides in Hanover, New Hampshire with wife, Adderly.
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