Jenna van de Ruit '15 competing in the Dartmouth Undergraduate Climbing Competition, while other competitors and spectators look on. (photo by Michael Sugimura '14)
In 1973, an a cappella group called Sweet Honey in the Rock gave its first performance in Washington, D.C. Nearly 40 years later, the decorated female African-American musical group founded by Bernice Johnson Reagon sings on. Read More...
To Melissa Centeno '13 and Hannah Giorgis '13, talking about campus climate shouldn't be limited to just one campus. That's why they organized a gathering in Hanover for students from across the country to talk about improving openness and tolerance on college campuses. Read More...
Hundreds of alumni, faculty, and students gathered April 5 to 7 to honor Dartmouth's 40th anniversary of coeducation during the Greenways: Coming Home celebration. Read More...
Prominent intellectual and activist Cornel West will be on campus April 25 as part of an inaugural lecture series at Dartmouth. Read More...
Dartmouth Now invited three prominent Dartmouth women to talk about the choices and challenges they have faced in balancing career and family life. Read More...
In the midst of a whirlwind day filled with conversations about balancing work and family, Anne-Marie Slaughter sits down with Dartmouth Now for a video interview. Read More...
Daphne Koller, the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and co-founder of Coursera, talks to Dartmouth Now about the role of online education. Read More...
The innovation and dynamic contributions of women whose lives were changed by the transformation to coeducation at Dartmouth College in 1972 will be highlighted at the Greenways: Coming Home celebration over the weekend of April 5 to 7. Read More...
Anne-Marie Slaughter's 2012 Atlantic essay, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," fueled a national debate on how the difficulty of finding a work-family balance has limited women in the top echelons of business and government. Read More...
Co-founder of Coursera and Stanford University Professor Daphne Koller is the next speaker in Dartmouth's "Leading Voices in Higher Education" series. Read More...
Prominent scholars, artists, and activists will be visiting the Dartmouth College campus during the Spring 2013 term for a series of seminars, debates, panel discussions, and public lectures. In conjunction with the Seeds of Change lecture series, the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth (GRID) will run a pilot research seminar on the synergies between gender, scholarship, and social change. Visit the Seeds of Change page to learn more.
In a video interview, Julie Foudy, World Cup soccer champion, Olympic gold medalist, and advocate for gender equality, talks about the perception of Title IX today and how athletics influenced her life. Read More...
Priscilla "Sally" Kingsbury Frechette Maynard, W'41, spent her life building community. As the first woman named to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, she shared her gift for connecting people at a critical time: the College's transition to coeducation, a milestone Dartmouth is marking this year, the 40th anniversary of the change. Read More...
Samantha Knowles '12 was interviewed by Collectors Weekly about her senior honors thesis documentary, Why Do You Have Black Dolls? Read More...
If you ask Professor Punam Anand Keller, who teaches social marketing at the Tuck School of Business and strategic health marketing in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program, to describe her work, she has a simple answer.
"I sweat the small stuff," she says. Read More...
In celebration of the 40th anniversaries of coeducation at Dartmouth and the passing of Title IX, Julie Foudy, Olympic gold medalist and World Cup soccer champion, will speak on campus February 26. Read More...
Like others throughout the world on February 14, 2013, Dartmouth participants in a global campaign called "One Billion Rising" are "rising up" against abuse not by making speeches but by dancing, VPR reports. Read More...
Soccer star Julie Foudy will give a free lecture open to the public in Alumni Hall at the Hopkins Center on Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. Read More...
This year marks the 15th anniversary of V-Day, but a new global dance movement, One Billion Rising, is giving the international campaign a different tone. Read More...
Dear members of the Dartmouth community,
This year has been one of much celebration, from the 40th anniversaries of our Native American Studies Program and Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association to the 50th anniversary of the Hopkins Center for the Arts. That historic period of time marked the beginning of an era of inclusion and innovation at Dartmouth which to this day defines the forward-thinking vitality that steers this institution toward our 250th anniversary and beyond.
Our celebration continues this term through the spring with a number of campus events being held to mark another critical 40th anniversary for Dartmouth: that of coeducation. Dartmouth matriculated its first female students in the 1972-73 school year, and 40 years later, Dartmouth alumnae have made an impact on virtually every academic discipline and profession in this country and around the world, from award-winning writers, artists and filmmakers to groundbreaking scientists, senators, businesswomen, and physicians.
The slate of events will begin with a Presidential Faculty Lecture delivered on February 25th by Punam Anand Keller, the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management and an international expert on health promotion and financial literacy. On February 26th, gender equality advocate and former Olympic gold medalist Julie Foudy will come to speak about Title IX, followed by Anne-Marie Slaughter on April 3rd. A professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and former director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department, Anne-Marie will speak on issues facing women in the workforce.
Then over the weekend of April 5th, the Offices of the President and Alumni Relations will host "Greenways: Coming Home," a symposium featuring panel discussions by alumni and faculty across a number of professional fields. Among our notable alumna speakers will be comedian and author Rachel Dratch (Class of '88) and WNBA president Laurel Richie (Class of '81).
I invite you to visit our website, Celebrating Coeducation: 40 Years of Change at http://www.dartmouth.edu/coeducation. The aim of this website is to be informative, inspirational, and inclusive, and in this spirit I encourage anyone planning a coeducation-related event to submit the details and descriptions at http://www.dartmouth.edu/coeducation/events/eventsub.html so that it can be featured on our website.
The changes that have taken place here over the past 40 years have been truly inspiring, and I look forward to seeing the myriad ways in which the men and women of Dartmouth today will build on this legacy of change to help create a more inclusive world for all the men and women of tomorrow.
Warmly,
Carol L. Folt, Ph.D.
President
