VOL. CLXXI NO. 91
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This is our last issue of the term. We will resume publication on June 20.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014
Environmental science, opera among MOOC topics selected for 2015
By AMELIA ROSCH The Dartmouth Staff
The College will offer four massive open online courses through a partnership with edX beginning in early 2015, focusing on introductory environmental science, 19th-century American literature, introductory opera and engineering structural forms. Dartmouth is the final Ivy League institution to offer free courses accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. Fourteen professors submitted
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Board anticipates membership changes By JOSH KOENIG
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proposals to teach a MOOC, and five were selected to teach the four classes. “The idea is not to have tons of courses,” director of digital learning initiatives Josh Kim said. “It’s a new initiative for us. We have to figure out how to develop courses as we go forward.” Next winter or spring term, environmental studies professor Andrew Friedland will teach a MOOC modeled after his
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Following the Board of Trustees’ annual spring meeting this June, Bill Helman ’80, who chaired the College’s presidential search committee in 2012, will replace Steve Mandel ’78 as the Board’s chairman. Based on charter and alumni trustee term limits, which permit the trustees to serve up to two four-year terms, eight trustees who
were elected before 2012 are expected to leave the 26-member Board in the next three years. Among the 24 charter and alumni trustees, there are eight women and 16 men. The two additional members are College President Phil Hanlon and Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., an ex-officio member. Four black trustees sit on the Board, and all other members are white. SEE TRUSTEES PAGE 2
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Students in “Computer-Aided Mechanical Engineering Design” race their final projects.
Institute to explore patient choice By KATE BRADSHAW The Dartmouth Staff
Patient advocates and medical, legal, ethics and policy professionals will come to campus this summer for the 2014 Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice, discussing the implications of informed consent and patient choice, as well as improvements in health care transparency and patient-based care. Conference participants will discuss how to ensure that “true shareddecision making” occurs
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Senior honors thesis students present their research.
between doctors and patients, said conference manager Arianna Blaine, who will help manage the summer institute. Organizers will try to include patient voices at the conference this year, Blaine said. Three patient advocates will speak, including Dave deBronkart, or “e-Patient Dave,” an activist for participatory medicine and a spokesperson for the e-patient movement that encourages patients to take a more active role in health care decisions. DeBronkart, who has
given a TED talk called “Let Patients Help” and spoken at the Health Infor mation Management Systems Society conference on health care technology, said the summer event is his first that “comes face-to-face with the real problem, which is that it’s just plain unethical to not tell people what their choices are.” A co-founder and cochair of the Society for Participatory Medicine, deBronkart said he began to understand the imporSEE CONFERENCE PAGE 5
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Over the last two years, the number of applications for transfer terms has decreased, in part because students now have to complete a more extensive application to participate, Registrar Meredith Braz said. In 2011, the
College’s non-refundable transfer term application fee increased from $25 to $1,100 for the fall term and $2,200 for the winter, spring and summer terms. In 2012, the Committee on Instruction instituted an application policy and limited the number of students who can participate in a particular transfer program
to an average of five. In 2013, 113 students participated in transfer terms at 49 institutions across 22 countries, according to data provided by Braz. She could not provide data for 2012 or prior years because the Registrar’s Office is busy SEE TRANSFER PAGE 5