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Nov - Dec 2017

Is bigger better? Dartmouth, currently the smallest college in the Ivy League, is evaluating whether it should increase the present number of undergraduates.
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Jul - Aug 2017

There were 20,034 applicants seeking admittance to the class of 2021; 2,092 (10.4 percent) were accepted, with an expectation that about 1,100 of the 2,002 will choose to become members of the class of 2021.
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Sep - Oct 2017

Jake Tapper ’91, CNN chief Washington, D.C., correspondent, was the featured speaker at this June’s Commencement. His theme was “The real adventure starts now—persevere.” He wove together many references to Dr.
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May - Jun 2017

The board of trustees has authorized the schematic design funding for the new $73-million building that will be built at the end of the Tuck Mall to house the Arthur L. Irving Institute of Energy and Design.
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Mar - Apr 2017

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to give Dartmouth $800,000 to finance studies that will advise communities on ways to improve water quality and help them develop plans to make their water cleaner and safer.
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Jan - Feb 2017

Dartmouth is moving ahead on plans to expand its western campus near Tuck and Thayer by 459,000 square feet of new buildings. At least five of them will support Tuck, Thayer and the computer science department.

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Nov - Dec 2016

Dartmouth has recently completed an action plan for inclusive excellence containing more than three dozen new initiatives as well as enhancements of existing programs. Its aim is to increase diversity and inclusion.
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Sept - Oct 2016

The class of 2016 graduated on June 12 with 1,867 degrees awarded to students from 48 states, the District of Columbia and 31 foreign countries. Nobel Laureate (2011) Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian human rights activist, delivered the main address.
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May - June 2016

Dartmouth has reached its goal of $100 million, the amount needed to establish 10 new academic clusters, which will focus on urgent world challenges ranging from global poverty to cybersecurity. This will create 30 new faculty positions.
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Mar - Apr 2016

The recent unrest in American colleges and universities includes Dartmouth where, on November 12 some 250 members of Black Lives Matter marched through Baker Library, floor by floor, chanting slogans, shouting vulgar epithets and abusive personal

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Jan - Feb 2016

Eric Fanning ’90, nominated by President Obama to be secretary of the Army, will, if confirmed, be the first openly gay secretary of a U.S. military branch. Fanning has been a civilian advisor to Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter.