Tel l i ng Our Story What makes Dartmouth an experience like no other? Why does Dartmouth matter out of proportion to its size? What makes Dartmouth ... Dartmouth? The answers to these questions—the defining fundamentals of our story—come not from outside experts but from within our own community: students, faculty, staff, and alumni who so eloquently articulate what makes Dartmouth distinctive. From them come the language, tone, and proof points for the pages that follow. To celebrate what makes Dartmouth different in a way that resonates and sticks, we must be clear and consistent. To motivate those who know us best and introduce ourselves to those who don’t yet know us at all, we must be proud and unapologetic. To tell our story with confidence, we must embrace who we are. This book provides the tools for you, as an ambassador for Dartmouth, to do just that: to share with the world what makes Dartmouth … Dartmouth. 1 Telling Our Story Our Mission Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge. 2 3 Telling Our Story The Strategic Communications Framework There are lots of facts and stats that document what makes Dartmouth great. Liberal Arts Scholars Who Here’s what makes at the Core Love to Teach Dartmouth different: A fusion of a renowned liberal arts college and a robust research university where students and Adventuresome faculty partner to take Profound Spirit on the world’s great Sense of Place challenges Base Camp to the World 4 5 Telling Our Story Dartmouth Stands Apart A fusion of a renowned liberal At Dartmouth … Sixty percent of arts college and a robust undergraduate students do independent study research university where with faculty mentors. Fourteen percent students and faculty partner of students publish to take on the world’s greatest their own research. We have the only school of engineering in the challenges U.S. that requires an AB en route to a professional accredited BE. The world of higher education is often marked by a stark You’ll find the Rockefeller division between competing institutions—liberal arts Policy Research Shop, colleges or research universities. Dartmouth stands a faculty-mentored in bright contrast as a powerful third model. Dartmouth research enterprise in which students is a place of and, where the sum is always greater engage directly in the Undergraduates Make Discoveries than the parts. public policymaking On an “Anthropology 70” field trip to Malapa, South Africa, process in Vt. and N.H. by providing nonpartisan (pictured above) three undergraduates uncovered • Liberal arts and research research to state a 2-million-year-old pelvis from one of the first upright- legislators. • Teacher and scholar walking hominins. Students here learn—and learn We are the first liberal to lead—by doing. arts college in the U.S. • Student and leader to own and operate an fMRI machine strictly Big Questions Find New Answers • Hanover and the world for research purposes. Health Care Delivery Science is one of 10 new Lisa Marsch directs interdisciplinary research clusters created to extend These combinations thrive at the heart of our academic the Dartmouth Psychiatric Dartmouth’s impact on pressing challenges. It’s no enterprise; they energize our singular scale and configuration. Research Center. Marsch has been the principal coincidence that The Dartmouth Atlas compiles investigator on 26 grants the nation’s most comprehensive data on where and Where else but Dartmouth can undergraduates partner totaling approximately on original research with scholars who are leaders $50 million in funding. how patient care succeeds or fails. in their fields? Her pioneering work integrating technology Game Changer and addiction treatment The football team’s mobile virtual player (MVP) Dartmouth College will always be our heart and soul, has led to the development but we are equally proud to claim our place as one of an important mobile is changing the landscape of contact sports. Championed intervention tool. of today’s most dynamic research universities. by head coach Buddy Teevens ’79, a Thayer faculty member partnering with Thayer students developed a robotic tackling dummy. On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Teevens reported that his no-tackling policy at practice, made more effective by the MVP, had reduced injuries by 80 percent. A number of professional and collegiate teams have adopted the MVP. 6 7 Telling Our Story Liberal Arts The Liberal Arts at the Core Imperative A culture of critical thinking, At Dartmouth ... We wrote the book Duane Matt creativity, and collaboration on the liberal arts. Eager to share the meaning of the liberal arts with Compton Slaughter for life and leadership in a wide audience, math professor Dan Rockmore Dean of the Geisel School of Medicine Dean of the Tuck School of Business a complex world asked Dartmouth colleagues to explain their “ Most medical schools are located in urban “ The liberal arts tradition long fields and what they do. centers, often geographically separated embraced by Dartmouth is truly The liberal arts imperative informs every field of study The result, What Are the from the parent university. We don’t have unparalleled in higher education. here, including those at our graduate and professional Arts and Sciences?, is the definitive exploration that separation. We’re co-locating faculty It permeates the culture across schools. Dartmouth students learn to ask bigger of the value of a liberal from across Dartmouth to create new campus, including at Tuck, where questions and apply more perspectives to the answers. arts education in a complex world. interdisciplinary approaches to solving conducting thoughtful analysis, asking They gain a deeper understanding of humanity complex medical problems. This synergy critical questions, and developing and a broader view of what’s at stake for societies The Rauner Special Collections Library hosts is an incredibly powerful asset that would clear communications are key skills throughout the world. Dartmouth’s rare book collection and archives, be hard to replicate anywhere else.” for wise leaders.” Dartmouth turns out a wiser business leader, a more including a treasure trove of historical gems— thoughtful doctor, and a more holistic engineer. from Shakespeare’s First Folio to the first edition of the Book of Mormon. Elizabeth Smith F. Jon The Life Sciences Greenhouse is Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences a 6,000-square-foot botanical oasis, home “ We have many internationally recognized scholars Kull ’88 to an award-winning who could work at a major research university and orchid collection, a dry Dean of the School never teach another undergraduate course again. room with desert plants, of Graduate and a subtropical room. Why do they come to Dartmouth? They come and Advanced Studies because they love to teach. But the reason they A Space for Dialogue: “ Dartmouth’s strength Each year, student interns, remain is because we provide an environment mentored by Hood staff, in the liberal arts makes that allows them to innovate in the classroom curate mini-exhibitions our graduate programs for which they perform and pursue their intellectual passion.” independent research, more holistic than those select objects to exhibit, at universities that are develop their own interpretive strategies, fixated on research. Our and express their ideas PhD and master's candidates in their own voices. Joe Helble approach problems from Three of our alumni multiple perspectives. have won Nobel Prizes. Dean of Thayer School of Engineering “ If engineering is about using technology to improve We want someone working Two hundred twenty-two in genetics to appreciate Dartmouth students and the human condition, you really need to understand young alumni have the human condition to be an effective engineering the ethics of the technology received Fulbright and its implications scholarships. leader. At Dartmouth, studying the liberal arts helps you understand the world; then engineering gives for society.” We have produced 79 Rhodes Scholars. you the tools to go out and change it.” 8 9 Telling Our Story Scholars Who Love to Teach Access to faculty who are At Dartmouth … We have ranked in the leaders in their field and top 10 for “Commitment to Undergraduate Teaching” since the devoted teachers and mentors category was established by U.S. News & World Report. It is no accident that Dartmouth unfailingly leads for teaching in most university rankings. The intimacy Sixty-four percent of undergraduate of Dartmouth’s academic community and the proximity classes have 20 of its resources have a way of bringing individual students or fewer students. together with the scholar or researcher who can ignite Our student-to-faculty an unquenchable curiosity. ratio is 7:1. Twenty-eight faculty Dartmouth students don’t just hear from great scholars, have been named they often become partners in the work, as scholars, American Association for the Advancement investigators, and creators. They are, in effect, apprentices of Science fellows. Jodie Mack, a professor “All the World’s a Stage ...” in fields as diverse as politics, nanotechnology, and of film and media studies, Tuck faculty won more Students in Thomas Luxon’s introductory Shakespeare the study of Shakespeare. than 100 research and talks to a student in teaching awards during the Book Arts Workshop course complete papers in much the same way that any the 2016–2017 school year. as part of her course Producers of Knowledge “Handmade Cinema.” professional does and submit their work to a scholarly Students in Brendan Nyhan’s “Experiments in Politics” Our faculty attracted academic conference. A record seven papers were recently seminar are testing ways to counter fake news in social more than $220 million accepted and presented by Dartmouth students at the in sponsored research media.