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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 358 Collections and/or Records:

Dartmouth College Librarian report

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 859427
Mss 859427
Date(s): 1859-07-27
Scope and Contents

Librarian's report by Oliver Payson Hubbard to the Dartmouth College Trustees for the college year 1858/59.

Dartmouth College Librarian report

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 861424
Mss 861424
Date(s): 1861-07-24
Scope and Contents

Four-page report from Dartmouth College Librarian to the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College for the year 1861.

Dartmouth College Librarian's report

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 858429
Mss 858429
Date(s): 1858-07-29
Scope and Contents

Eight page librarian's report by Oliver Payson Hubbard to the Dartmouth College Trustees for the year 1857/58.

Dartmouth College Medical School minutes of faculty meeting

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 848577.1
Mss 848577.1
Date(s): 1848-10-27 to 1848-11-09
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Resolution

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 815528.5
Mss 815528.5
Date(s): 1815-09-28
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustee document

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 793376
Mss 793376
Date(s): 1793-06-26
Scope and Contents

Two page document from Dartmouth College Trustees and Aaron Kinsman, and James Wheelock choosing arbitrators to settle upon terms of agreement between the Trusees and the stewards. Reverse side gives terms of agreement reached by the arbitrators, and receipt of payments made by the College.

Dartmouth College Trustee indenture of lease

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 787321
Mss 787321
Date(s): 1787-03-21
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 808140.1
Mss 808140.1
Date(s): 1808-01-19
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 815490.3
Mss 815490.3
Date(s): 1815-08
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 784253.1
Mss 784253.1
Date(s): 1784-04-13
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 817172.12
Mss 817172.12
Date(s): 1817-02-22
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees account

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 808428
Mss 808428
Date(s): 1808-07-28
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees account

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 837505.1
Mss 837505.1
Date(s): 1837-09-05 to 1838-06-30
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees agreement

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 817675.2
Mss 817675.2
Date(s): 1817-12-25
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees assignment

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 793671
Mss 793671
Date(s): 1793-12-21
Scope and Contents

Dartmouth College Trustees assignment of land to John Wheelock.

Dartmouth College Trustees bill

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 863640.2
Mss 863640.2
Date(s): 1863-11
Scope and Contents

Bill from the Dartmouth College Trustees to John S. Woodman, telling him that payment is due for the instruction in surveying.

Dartmouth College Trustees contract

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 785477
Mss 785477
Date(s): 1785-08-27
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees deed

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 781115
Mss 781115
Date(s): 1781-01-15
Scope and Contents

Deed of land in Tunbridge, VT given to Samuel Moody (rector and master of Dummer academy) and his successors in office, by John Wheelock and Bezaleel Woodward on behalf of the Trustees of Dartmouth College. Acknowleged before the justice of the peace on Sept. 20, 1787.

Dartmouth College Trustees deed

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 781115.1
Mss 781115.1
Date(s): 1781-01-15
Scope and Contents

Fragments of resource 781115; possibly the original.

Dartmouth College Trustees draft of letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 769490.1
Mss 769490.1
Date(s): 1796-08
Scope and Contents

Dartmouth College Trustees draft of Mss 796490

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