Administrative Working Group Report

“Dartmouth’s increasing complexity over the past couple of decades has had a noticeable impact on the administrative and organizational structures of the institution…. Specifically, many employees do not understand who makes decisions, what the decision-making structure is, or how decisions are communicated.  Nor is it always clear how programmatic planning at the divisional, departmental, and individual office level ties into the priorities identified by the President and Trustees.”

 –January 2007 Report from the Working Group on Administrative Communications and Culture, page 9

Notable Quotes
  • Kenan Yount ‘06

    "The hiring of new coaches and the reinstatement of the swimming team were steps for Dartmouth athletics, but we should not let time cloud our memories as to how those successes were achieved. Students filled the halls of Parkhurst. Alumni begged the college for their donations to the swim team to reach the swim team. Only with joint efforts by alumni and students . . . has the adminstration been pressured into this success."

  • Frederick Douglass

    "There can be no right of speech where any man . . . [is] compelled to suppress his honest sentiments."

  • The Wall Street Journal

    "Since 1891, Dartmouth has been among the handful of colleges and universities that allows alumni to elect leaders directly. At present, eight of the 18 members of the governing Board of Trustees are chosen by the popular vote of some 66,500 graduates, from a slate nominated by a small, mostly unelected committee."

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