Dartmouth College. Board of Trustees

Dartmouth College. Board of Trustees

 

Biography

The Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College was created as "one body corporate and politick" by the charter of Dartmouth College, 13 December 1769, comprising twelve members, including the President of the College and the Governor of New Hampshire as ex officio members. The Board first met in Keene, New Hampshire, 22 October 1770, and consisted of Sir John Wentworth, Gov. of New Hampshire, the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, President of Dartmouth College, Theodore Atkinson, George Jaffrey, Daniel Pierce, Peter Gilman, William Pitkin, Benjamin Pomeroy, James Lockwood, Timothy Pitkin, John Smalley, and William Patten.

Dartmouth’s Board of Trustee is responsible for oversight of the financial, administrative, and academic affairs of the College, including the appointment and evaluation of the President, long-range strategic planning, maintaining the academic quality of all the degree programs, ensuring the excellence of the faculty and the quality of the student experience, approving operating and capital budgets, managing the endowment, leading fundraising efforts, setting tuition and fees, and approving major policy changes.

Over the years, the number of “elected” Trustees (i.e., Trustees in addition to the President and the Governor) and the overall size of the Board have varied. The Charter originally set the number of elected trustees at ten. In 1961, the New Hampshire legislature and the Board approved a Charter amendment increasing the number of elected Trustees to 14, and amended again in 1967 to omit the New Hampshire residency requirement for any members of the Board. In 2003, the Board voted to increase the number of elected Trustees to 20. Two of those new Board seats has been filled, bringing the current size of the Board to 18 (16 “elected” Trustees, the Governor, and the President of the College.) Today, as it has since 1970, the Board elects a Chair separate from the President of the College.

Among the major actions of the Board were the establishment of professional schools in Medicine (1797), Engineering (1867) and Business (1900); resolutions in 1876 and 1891 allowing for alumni nominations of some candidates for Trustee; the November 22, 1971, resolution making the undergraduate college coeducational; and the November 1989 decision to divest from companies doing business with South Africa.

Found in 344 Collections and/or Records:

Nathan Lord report

Mss 859640
 Collection
Identifier: Mss 859640
Date(s): 1859-11
Scope and Contents

Thirty-page report by Nathan Lord to the Trustees of Dartmouth College for a meeting adjourned in November, 1859.

Nathan Lord report

Mss 861440
 Collection
Identifier: Mss 861440
Date(s): 1861-07
Scope and Contents

Six-page report of Dartmouth College president Nathan Lord to the Dartmouth College Trustees for the academic year 1860/61.

Nathan Lord report

Mss 862900.1
 Collection
Identifier: Mss 862900.1
Date(s): 1862
Scope and Contents

Seven-page report by Dartmouth College President Nathan Lord to the Trustees of Dartmouth College for the year, 1862.

Nathan Lord report

Mss 863440
 Collection
Identifier: Mss 863440
Date(s): 1863-07
Scope and Contents

Twenty-two page report by Dartmouth College president Nathan Lord to the Dartmouth College Trustees for the academic year, 1862/63. (Second copy with slight variations in the wording)

Nathan Lord resolution

Mss 852430
 Collection
Identifier: Mss 852430
Date(s): 1852-07-30
Scope and Contents

Resolutions passed by trustees, thanking Prof. Shurtleff for gift of $1000 to philosophy and economics departments for books and ordering an alcove in library be prepared for collection.

Nathan Noyes letter

Mss 795475.1
 Collection
Identifier: Mss 795475.1
Date(s): 1795-08-25
Scope and Contents

Letter from Nathan Noyes of Hanover, N.H. to Dartmouth College Trustees with a confession of several offenses. Mentions Prof. Woodward, Benoni Dewey and Payne, and Philander Chase. Asks forgiveness and reinstatement.

Nathan Smith letter

Mss 812490.3
 Collection
Identifier: Mss 812490.3
Date(s): 1812-08
Scope and Contents

Letter from Nathan Smith in Hanover, New Hampshire to Dartmouth College Trustees, proposing a Col. Graves be appointed a professor or lecturer in chemistry.

Nathan Smith letter

Mss 796475
 Collection
Identifier: Mss 796475
Date(s): 1796-08-25
Scope and Contents

Letter from Nathan Smith of Hanover to Board of Trustees informing them that if addressee will establish a medical school in Dartmouth, writer will go to Edinburgh, Scotland to perfect himself in the study of medical science and on his return will teach it in Dartmouth.

Nathan Smith letter

Mss 813413
 Collection
Identifier: Mss 813413
Date(s): 1813-07-13
Scope and Contents

Letter from Nathan Smith to the Honorable President and Board of Trustees for Dartmouth College, certifying that the writer proposes to resign his office of Professor at the next annual meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Nathan Smith letter

Mss 805479.1
 Collection
Identifier: Mss 805479.1
Date(s): 1805-08-29
Abstract

In English.

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