VOL. CLXXIII NO.27
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Trump, Sanders take NH Working groups
focus on inclusivity By SONIA QIN
The Dartmouth Staff
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People wait for shuttles to the Hanover High School voting station.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are the winners of yesterday’s New Hampshire primary election. Republican presidential candidate John Kasich and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton placed second
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Clinton lagged behind with 29.6 percent as of press time. Polls were open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for the first presidential primary in the 2016 presidential race. Hanover High School was open to students and residents of Hanover as a polling place. For the past few weeks, students involved in campaigns and political organizaSEE PRIMARY PAGE 5
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in their respective races. Trump received 35.2 percent of the vote, compared to Kasich who received 16.0 percent. Sanders received 59.7 percent of the vote, followed by Clinton at 38.7 percent as of press time. In Grafton County, Trump took 45.3 percent of the vote, followed by Cruz who trailed with 15.8 percent and Kasich with 13.8. Sanders took 66.2 percent while
Last Wednesday, College President Phil Hanlon and Provost Carolyn Dever announced the creation of three working groups that will tackle issues of diversity and inclusivity at the College. The announcement said that these working groups will present their findings on problems and suggested solutions to an executive committee, which will be responsible for implementing the strategies suggested. The committee will also be responsible for producing a report on May 1 with the identified next steps. The executive committee will also be advised by an alumni advisory group. There will be a student working group chaired by vice provost for academic initiatives Denise Anthony, a faculty working group chaired by Dean of the College Rebecca Biron and vice provost for student affairs Inge-Lise Ameer and a staff working group chaired by director of talent acquisition Ahmed Mohammed. Each group will
include students, faculty and staff. Biron identified the goals of the three working groups as “to better document our current efforts and improve coordination across the institution to define clear goals and metrics for how we’re going to define success, establish standards for accountability along with mechanisms to ensure that we continue to hold ourselves accountable.” Ameer said that both Dever and Hanlon are anxious to hear what groups recommend and to get going with the process. Last Friday, Dartmouth’s NAACP released an email statement to campus with a critical response to the working group initiative, citing “ambiguities of the plan” and the absence of an outline of “how accountability will be concretely measured.” NAACP president Jon Diakanwa ’16 said he is happy that the school is taking issues of diversity and inclusivity
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Dartmouth fell out of the R1 category, a group of 115 doctoral universities with the “highest research activity,” in the most recent report released by Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education on Feb. 1. The College is now part of the R2 group of “higher research activity” institutions. The Carnegie classifications, updated every five years and first published in 1973, are based on an index that considers the
size of institutions, comprehensiveness of research programs and research productivity, CCIHE director and education professor at Indiana University Bloomington Victor Borden said. Dartmouth was in the R1 category in 2005 and 2010, but not in previous listings. In the newly released 2015 report, Dartmouth was the only Ivy League institution not in “R1.” Within the basic classification measuring research activity, institutions are separated by type, such as doctoral universities, mas-
ter’s colleges and universities, baccalaureate colleges and associate’s colleges. The doctoral universities group, defined as institutions that award at least 20 doctoral degrees in a year, has 335 schools classified as R1, R2 and R3 categories. Eight other schools fell out of R1 in 2015, including North Dakota State, Rockefeller University, Yeshiva University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Fifteen institutions moved up to R1, including Northeastern University and George Mason University. Borden said many differ-
ent entities use the classifications for diverse purposes, including internal benchmarking, awarding federal grants, allocating salaries and crafting state policies. “The original purpose and core pur pose is to provide higher education researchers and policy makers with a mechanism for distinguishing among different types of institutions,” he said. The classifi cations also determine how the U.S. News and World Report College Rankings define their categories of institutions,
Borden said. For example, the “National Universities Rankings” category comes from the Carnegie doctoral universities group. The classifications are meant to group similar schools for comparison purposes, he said. Borden noted that though Dartmouth may have dropped to R2, it is still part of the elite group of doctoral universities defined by CCIHE. “It’s an index, and we had to draw a line somewhere,” he said. “Whether you’re the SEE RESEARCH PAGE 1