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Dartmouth College ( / ˈdɑːrtməθ /; DART-məth) is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Emerging into national prominence at the turn of the 20th century, Dartmouth has since been ...
Dartmouth College is located in the rural town of Hanover in the Upper Valley of the Connecticut River in the New England state of New Hampshire.Dartmouth's 269-acre (1.09 km 2) campus centered on the Green makes the institution the largest private landowner in the town of Hanover, [1] and its landholdings and facilities are valued at an estimated $419 million. [2]
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ( UMass Dartmouth or UMassD) is a public research university in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. It is the southernmost campus of the University of Massachusetts system. [ 4] Formerly Southeastern Massachusetts University (known locally as SMU ), it was merged into the University of Massachusetts system in 1991.
President of Dartmouth College 1820–1821 [10] Edmund Ezra Day: 1905, M.A. 1905 President of Cornell University 1937–1949 [16] [17] John Sloan Dickey: 1929 President of Dartmouth College 1945–1970 [10] Marye Anne Fox: Ph.D 1974 Chancellor of University of California at San Diego 2004–present, chancellor of North Carolina State University ...
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth is the graduate medical school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The fourth oldest medical school in the United States, it was founded in 1797 by New England physician Nathan Smith. It is one of the seven Ivy League medical schools . Several milestones in medical care and research have ...
Dartmouth College is host to many fraternities and sororities, and a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life. In 2005, the school stated that 1,785 students were members of a fraternity, sorority, or gender-inclusive Greek house, comprising about 43 percent of all students, or about 60 percent of the eligible student body. [1]
It includes faculty at its related graduate schools and programs, including the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering, and Geisel School of Medicine. As of 2007, Dartmouth employs 597 tenured or tenure-track faculty members, 366 of whom are in the undergraduate Arts & Sciences division. More than 90% of the faculty hold a ...
Dartmouth University. Dartmouth University is a defunct institution in New Hampshire which existed from 1817 to 1819. It was the result of a thwarted attempt by the state legislature to make Dartmouth College, a private college, into a public university. The United States Supreme Court case that settled the matter, Dartmouth College v.