VOL. CLXXIII NO.92
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TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016
Divestment report released
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
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Divest Dartmouth hosted the largest climate rally in New Hampshire.
By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth Staff
The College released its report on fossil fuel divestment on May 13. The report details rationales for and against divesting from fossil fuel companies, examining arguments from ethical, financial, academic and symbolic viewpoints. College President Phil Hanlon commissioned the report from the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility in 2014, af-
ter the Divest Dartmouth activist group submitted a petition that requested that the College divest from fossil fuel companies. Work on the report began last summer, when students Katie Zhang ’16 and Kasidet Trerayapiwat Th’16 began research into the possible financial and social impacts of divestment. Thayer School of Engineering professor Mark Borsuk, who served as their advisor, began work in the fall to combine their findings into
Student Activities Budget announced By TIANHONG DONG The Dartmouth
The Undergraduate Finance Committee released its allocation decisions for the Student Activities Budget on Sunday. The $1.1 million budget covers 10 undergraduate groups for the 2016-2017 fiscal year. UFC funds come from the student activities fee charged to each
student’s tuition every year, which is currently $86. The Special Programs and Events Committee received $169,320; the Greek Leadership Council received $38,844; Programming Board, $321,210; Council on Student Organizations, $280,000; Collis Governing
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a single document. The final report was finished in April. Zhang said she and Trerayapiwat spoke with approximately 10 to 12 students, faculty members and staff while researching for the report. The report examines four possible levels of divestment: no divestment; divesting from the “Filthy Fifteen,” the 15 largest and most polluting coal SEE DIVEST PAGE 3
The College released the Action Plan for Inclusive Excellence in an announcement by College President Phil Hanlom. The document, compiled by the diversity and inclusivity executive committee comprised of Hanlon, Provost Carolyn Dever, Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Evelynn Ellis and Executive Vice President Rick Mills, draws from the reports of the three inclusive excellence working groups published early this month. The action plan reaffirms the administration’s 2014 goal of increasing the percent of tenure-track underrepresented minority faculty across the College to 25 percent by 2020. In order to reach this goal, the Diversity Recruitment Fund will be doubled to $2 million annually, while school deans will work with the Office of the Provost to retain key faculty. Deans at the College will be tasked with reporting to the provost about institutional workload, such as the larger amount of mentorship that faculty of color undertake. These annual reports will be due on June 1, 2017. The executive committee’s action plan also announced plans to add an additional two-year fellowship in Asian American Studies as well as
four new Provost’s postdoctoral fellows in “areas that support diversity.” The César Chávez and Eastman/Marshall fellowship programs’ lengths will be doubled from one to two years. Thedocumentalsoannounced plans to conduct exit interviews with all departing faculty as well as interviews with current faculty to better understand employment factors and climate. For minority staff recruitment, a working group will be formed by Sept. 15 with the goal of selecting a date by which to increase underrepresented minorities on staff. The group will report by Feb. 15, 2017, the action plan stated. All senior staff and search committees will undergo implicit bias training. Beginning with the 2016-2017 academic year, all new students, faculty and staff orientation will incorporate diversity and inclusion training. The College’s Board of Trustees will also undergo training on bias and diversity. The College will publish its first annual diversity and inclusion report by May 30, 2017. The College will also create an external review committee comprised of national leaders in diversity and higher education to report to the Board of Trustees.
Duthu named associate dean
By DANIEL KIM
The Dartmouth Staff
Native American studies professor N. Bruce Duthu ’80 will succeed French, comparative literature and film studies professor Lynn Higgins as the next Frank J. Guarini Associate Dean of the Faculty for International Studies and Interdisciplinary Programs. He will be the third in the position since its creation a decade ago, starting his tenure on July 1. The associate dean position
encompasses the African and African American studies, Asian and Middle-Eastern studies, comparative literature, environmental studies, Jewish studies, Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies, linguistics, cognitive sciences, quantitative social sciences, Native American studies, Neukom Institute, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric programs. Duthu previously served as the director of the Native American Program, the associate dean
of freshmen and the director of the Intensive Academic Support Program. After teaching at Vermont Law School from 1991 to 2008, he returned to the College and chaired the Native American Studies department from 2009 to 2015. Duthu wrote in an email that his time as the chair of the Native American studies developed his working understanding and appreciation of the “curricular wealth” in the areas he will now SEE DUTHU PAGE 3