VOL. CLXXII NO. 142
PARTLY CLOUDY
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2015
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
College will spend $4 million on professor houses
FAMILY AND STATE
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By CAROLINE BERENS The Dartmouth Staff
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Students graduating later than June 2016 will be randomly assigned into on of six residential communities — based in pre-existing residence halls — the College announced Monday, along with other details about the new residential community system. The College has allocated nearly $4 million to build and renovate the professor housing that will accompany each house community, vice president of campus planning and facilities Lisa Hogarty said.
Students attend a lecture titled “Mexico: Crisis of the Family, Crisis of the State.”
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College starts search for top admissions administrator
B y AMANDA ZHOU The Dartmouth
The search for the new head of admissions is underway, as administrators and professors across campus gather to form a search committee for the post left vacant after the departure of former dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris. Dean of the College Rebecca Biron, who will chair the committee, said the position will be renamed vice
provost for enrollment management to elevate its importance for campus life, although the change in title will not affect the organizational structure or responsibilities of the dean. “[We want to] reflect the importance of those operations as the front door of our institution,” Biron said. Cornell University is the only one of the College’s Ivy League peers with a vice provost for enrollment management. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Brown Universities and the University of
Pennsylvania have deans of admissions. Williams, Amherst, Colby, Bowdoin and Bates Colleges also continue to list deans rather than vice provosts for admissions. Schools such as Boston College and Washington University in St. Louis — as well as many larger public institutions, including the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Indiana University at Bloomington — have vice provosts for enrollment management or some variation of this title.
Biron said enrollment management, a term that originated in the 1970s, denotes a strategic, data-driven approach to admissions, with the aim of best fulfilling the institution’s mission and priorities in the student body. She noted that enrollment management also aims to measure and quantify students’ experiences throughout their time at the College — as a result, admissions officers can better determine SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 3
Professor elected to National Academy of Medicine B y sonia qin The Dartmouth
Every morning of his “Advanced Topics in Econometrics” class this fall, Myles Wagner ’17 could expect to receive an apple from his professor, Douglas Staiger, plucked fresh from the apple tree in Staiger’s his yard. Not only does Staiger capture his students’ attention — and stomachs — with fruit, but he has also captured the interest of the National Academy of Medicine. Staiger, Dartmouth’s John French Professor of Economics, was one of the 80 members newly inducted to the National Academy of Medicine with his work.
The National Academy of Medicine is an organization of professionals hailing from various fields including health and medicine and natural, social and behavioral sciences. The NAM seeks to address critical problems in health, medicine and related policy and promote positive action across sectors. Every year, the NAM elects 70 regular members and 10 international members. The criteria for membership is, according to the NAM website, distinguished professional achievement in a field related to medicine and health; involvement with the issues of health SEE STAIGER PAGE 5
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Eonomics professor Douglas Staiger has been teaching at the College since 1998.