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Jan  Tarjan is Associate Dean and Director of Community Services at the Tucker Foundation of Dartmouth College, where she directs a large program of community service activity. Jan began her career in higher education administration as an officer in Dartmouth's Office of Admissions and has worked at Dartmouth since 1975. Jan moved to the Tucker Foundation in order to work more directly with the moral development of college students--particularly their engagement with issues of social responsibility. She treasures the many meaningful friendships she has developed with students and staff over the years.
The local community service program that Jan directs involves over 1500 Dartmouth students in over forty ongoing service projects, and several special annual events, in the communities surrounding Dartmouth College. During her years at the Tucker Foundation, Jan has directed community service internship and fellowship programs that serve nationally and internationally, in both urban and rural locations. Most recently, Jan participated in a Tucker Foundation and Hillel co-sponsored Cross-Cultural Education and Service project in Poland and Belarus which focused students on Holocaust History and involved them in restoration of an abandoned Jewish Cemetery in Sopotskin, Belarus. In the eighties, Jan initiated and piloted at Dartmouth the "Going Global" undergraduate internship program of the Peace Corps. Jan served on the Board of Trustees of the Twin Pines Affordable Housing Trust, a local community organization, for many years. She was a founding member of Campus Compact for New Hampshire, an organization that promotes community and public service in academia. She is a founding board member of the Children's Literacy Foundation of Vermont and New Hampshire; serves on the board of the Consortium For Excellence In Educational Partnerships and is a member of several neighborhood associations.
Jan Tarjan has roots in the city of Boston, where she grew up in an ethnically diverse federal housing project and attended urban schools. She also has deep family experience in the back hills of rural, "down-east", Maine, where she spent summers with extended family and from whence she hailed during her College years. Jan began her higher education as a full scholarship student at Pine Manor Jr. College, then transferred to Dartmouth College in the first year of coeducation. She is member of the Dartmouth Class of 1974. She resides in Lyme Center, NH with her husband, Raymond Brewster, who works in affordable housing, and daughters Ariel and Emma. Jan enjoys her family and neighbors; reading history, politics and literature; hiking and down-hill skiing.
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