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 Lynn C. White Cloud was appointed Assistant Dean, Director of Fellowships and Internships in May 2003 for the William Jewett Tucker Foundation. Lynn has more than 20 years of education experience in student affairs, leadership development, student activities, career services, alumni relations, college union operations, public education (K-5 & resource room teaching), community-based research, and advancing issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity.
Lynn served as Assistant Dean, Acting Director of Fellowships and Internships since March 2003 and as Assistant Dean for Community Services & Director of Special Programs for the William Jewett Tucker Foundation since 2001. In this position she served as advisor to numerous student leaders in many of the Tucker Foundation's local community services projects as well as in other Foundation initiatives; provided leadership in the development of the Foundation's diversity plan; fostered broad-based coalitions and collaborations; served on institutional change committees, and directed many innovative programs. Some examples of programs she coordinated include DarCORPS - A Day of Service for First-year Students, Campus Outreach Opportunity League (Cool) Movement Summit, intellectual and social events related to the Tucker Foundation's 50th Anniversary Celebration, and theme-based community concerts, such as Think Out Loud, What Does DEMOCRACY Look Like? and Where Do We Stand Now?.
As Assistant Dean, Director of Fellowships and Internships, Lynn provides leadership for all educational, student development, community-based research, and administrative activities associated with this program. Some of her primary responsibilities include support for domestic and international fellowships; the Dartmouth Partners in Community Services internship program; the Bildner Urban Summer intern program; Alternative Spring Break group-based service trips and select scholarship opportunities. She additionally provides leadership for the foundation's Diversity Plan and support for the Summer Enrichment At Dartmouth (SEAD), Tucker Civic Intern and civic engagement programs. As an officer in the foundation she enhances, develops and manages initiatives which are consonant with the Foundation's mission to further the moral and spiritual purposes of higher education and which further student personal growth and liberal education by providing and supporting opportunities to serve others in need. Finally, she continues to further the Foundation's work to create and nurture an educational climate that is fully inclusive and supportive of the rich diversity of our community.
Prior to her arrival at Dartmouth College she worked at Gettysburg College for 9 years, serving most recently as the Assistant Dean of the College, Director of Student Activities and the College Union. She has worked at Champlain College, the University of Vermont, Boston College, and in the private sector as well as in public schools. In 1984 she earned a B.S. in Elementary Education with a concentration in Special Education from the University of Vermont and in 1987 she earned a Master of Arts in Higher Education: Administration & Student Development from Boston College. Her extensive experience and deep understanding of the importance of preparing students for lives of intellectual inquiry, leadership and service greatly benefits Dartmouth College and others.
When asked what brought Lynn to the William Jewett Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth College she responded:
"Each of us have experienced those crystallizing moments when you just know and trust that you are meant to be at a place or in a moment that captures the essence of who you are and who you are becoming. I find myself at such a moment. Serving the Tucker Foundation gives me the opportunity to use the full range of my skills and experience towards what I believe is my life's work. That work is to care for others in a way that challenges them and myself to learn and continually develop respect for self, others, and community; to contribute to the building of community no matter how small or even large that contribution might be; to remember what has come before us and imagine what will be after us, so in essence to be in the moment with integrity; and to give thanks."
Lynn was born and raised in Montpelier, VT spending much of her childhood on her grandparent's farm in Plainfield, VT. She holds a great appreciation for a broad spectrum of educational environments, spiritual exploration, the natural world, as well as the sustainability and enhancement of rural communities. She lives in Thetford, VT with her husband Jay and 5 year old son Sage.
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