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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 Trustees meeting minutes

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 815472.1
Mss 815472.1
Date(s): 1815-08-22
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees meeting minutes

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 815478.1
Mss 815478.1
Date(s): 1815-08-28
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees memorandum of resolutions

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 860580.2
Mss 860580.2
Date(s): 1860-10-30
Scope and Contents

Memorandum of resolution relating to the Library and the Inspector of buildings by the Trustees, adjourned meeting, October 30, 1860.

Dartmouth College Trustees minutes

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 798490
Mss 798490
Date(s): 1798-08-28
Scope and Contents

Dartmouth College Trustees minutes of the meetings held Aug. 21,22,23,24,25,27,28,1798.

Dartmouth College Trustees minutes

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 770572.2
Mss 770572.2
Date(s): 1770-10-22
Scope and Contents

Dartmouth College Trustees minutes of the first meeting, 1770 Oct. 22, in Keene, N.H. On reverse: Prepared for the two hundredth anniversary of the first meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Dartmouth College Trustees minutes extract

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 789307.3
Mss 789307.3
Date(s): 1789-05-07
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees minutes extract

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 789307.4
Mss 789307.4
Date(s): 1789-05-07
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees notice

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 820576
Mss 820576
Date(s): 1820-10-26
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees petition

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 819390.4
Mss 819390.4
Date(s): 1819-06
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees proceedings

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 863424.1
Mss 863424.1
Date(s): 1863-07-24
Scope and Contents

Proceedings of the Dartmouth College Trustees upon the resolutions of the Merrimack Coounty Conference of Congregational Churches in reference to the presiden of said college, passed June 23 and 24, 1863. Amos Tuck, Nathanial Bouton and Ira Allen Eastman report no action will be taken to remove the president. Mentions the Board's position on the matter.

Dartmouth College Trustees proceedings

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 863424.2
Mss 863424.2
Date(s): 1863-07-24
Scope and Contents

Three pages of proceedinbgs from the Dartmouth College Trustees upon the resolutions of the Merrimack County Conference of Congregational Churches. Mentions the College's position in regard to the Civil War and the churches.

Dartmouth College Trustees proposal

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 788590
Mss 788590
Date(s): 1788-10
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees. Prudential Committee report

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 859666
Mss 859666
Date(s): 1859-12-16
Scope and Contents

Report by the Dartmouth College Trustees, Prudential Committee to the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College of resolutions adopted regarding the cataloguing of the College Library.

Dartmouth College Trustees receipt

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 793119
Mss 793119
Date(s): 1793-01-19
Scope and Contents

Receipt from Dartmouth College Trustees to Samuel Stearns for payment of tuition and room rent.

Dartmouth College Trustees receipt

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 793361
Mss 793361
Date(s): 1793-06-11
Scope and Contents

Receipt from Dartmouth College Trustees issued to Senior Bissell for funds received on account of his bills for tution, etc.

Dartmouth College Trustees record extract

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 000040.1
Mss 000040.1
Date(s): undated
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees record of a vote

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 819278
Mss 819278
Date(s): 1819-04-04
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees regulations

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 868259
Mss 868259
Date(s): 1868-04-09
Scope and Contents

Regulations of the Trustees in regard to the used of the church for class-day exercises.

Dartmouth College Trustees report

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 846429
Mss 846429
Date(s): 1846-07-29
Abstract

In English.

Dartmouth College Trustees report

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 795479.1
Mss 795479.1
Date(s): 1795-08-29
Scope and Contents

Dartmouth College Trustees Committee to settle with the president, to Dartmouth college Trustees. Report of the Committee, recommending conveying to President Wheelock the annual rents on land in Greenboro, amounting to £56/7 a year.

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