“[T]here is a general sense that the campus has become increasingly divided into ’silos’ with individual offices, departments, and divisions feeling less connected to the mission, values, and priorities of the College.”
–January 2007 Report from the Working Group on Administrative Communications and Culture, page 3
"It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And, yet there are those who love it!"
"How many students know that there are 11 positions in Dartmouth's central administration that include the word 'president' in their job titles? When 'deans,' 'directors' and 'managers' are included in the count, the number is probably well over a 100, though an exact count is difficult to come by because, to my knowledge, there exists no document with an explicit list. Though most students are probably aware that there are many, many individuals working in Dartmouth's administration, . . . one does not get the sense of anything so much as a sprawling 'educorporate' bureaucracy.
"80 percent of the oversubscriptions this year have come from the departments of Dartmouth's most popular majors: economics, government, history and psychological and brain sciences.
