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 366 Collections and/or Records:
Dartmouth College Trustees regulations
Regulations of the Trustees in regard to the used of the church for class-day exercises.
Dartmouth College Trustees report
In English.
Dartmouth College Trustees report
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.
Dartmouth College Trustees report
In English.
Dartmouth College Trustees report
Seven-page report from the Dartmouth College Trustees Committee to which was referred the claim of J.G. Currier for damage sustained in consequence of the opening of the bowling alleys in the gymnasium.
Dartmouth College Trustees resolution
In English.
Dartmouth College Trustees resolution
Draft of a resolution by the Dartmouth College Trustees to disperse copies of "Memoirs of the Late Rev. Dr. Eleazar Wheelock" to the library and to the Secretary of the Board of the Trustees.
Dartmouth College Trustees settlement
In English.
Dartmouth College Trustees statement
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Dartmouth College Trustees vote
In English.
Dartmouth College Trustees vote
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Dartmouth College Trustees vote
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Dartmouth College Trustees vote
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Dartmouth College Trustees vote
Vote of the Trustees of Dartmouth College. They refuse to pass Wheelock's motion that the state be asked to send a committee to examine how far the state "ought to exend their patronage to the Institution." Signed by Stephen Jacob.
Dartmouth College Trustees vote
Board of Trustees vote to relieve President Wheelock of duty of hearing Senior Class in Locke, Edwards, and Stuart and appointing Professors Shurtliff, Mason, Adams and Moore to take his place. Signed by Asa McFarland, Secretary.
Dartmouth College Trustees vote
In English.
Dartmouth College Trustees vote
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Dartmouth College Trustees vote
Vote by the Dartmouth College Trustess, signed by John Wheelock and attested by William Henry Woodward to confer the degree of M.A. on Alden Partridge.
Dartmouth College Trustees vote
In English.
Dartmouth College Trustees vote
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