For Faculty Children
A NEW program aimed at assisting fulltime members of Dartmouth's faculty and administration in the college education of their children has been announced by President Dickey. In addition to becoming a participant in the Faculty Children's Tuition Exchange Plan, under which seventy colleges exchange students on a tuition-free basis, Dartmouth will extend scholarship assistance to faculty daughters, and to sons not attending Dartmouth who need but do not receive assistance from the colleges they attend. The College's traditional policy of remitting tuition at Dartmouth for the son of any member of the faculty or administration is not affected by the new program and will continue as in the past.
To meet the broad objective of assisting members of the academic community with the higher education of their children, the Trustees have authorized the use of a special $40,000 reserve to finance the scholarship plan for a three-year trial period. Grants to sons or daughters who qualify under the program will be $600 per year, or the difference between that figure and any other scholarship aid that may be offered. Faculty children now in college or who intend to enter next fall may apply for aid under the new program which becomes effective July 1.
As President Dickey stated when making the announcement of the coming change, "The principal objective of the new program is to alleviate, in so far as our resources may permit, the most acute inequalities under the traditional policy by extending the possibility of scholarship assistance to faculty and administration daughters and also to faculty and administration sons not qualifying for a Dartmouth education."
Dartmouth's participation in the Faculty Children's Tuition Exchange plan is experimentally set to extend over a five- year period. It relates to education at the undergraduate level only. Albert I. Dickerson '30, Director of Admissions, will serve as the College's liaison officer under the FCTE. Overall administration of the Dartmouth program, particularly the supplemental grants, will be the responsibility of John F. Meek '33, Vice President and Treasurer.
Among the seventy colleges and universities now taking part in the FCTE are these Eastern institutions: Amherst, Barnard, Bennington, Clark, Colby, Colgate, Columbia, Connecticut, Goucher, Hamilton, Hood, Johns Hopkins, Mount Holyoke, Princeton, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Sarah Lawrence, Syracuse, Tufts, Vassar, Vermont, Wesleyan and Williams.
Dartmouth's new program of scholarship assistance to faculty children is based upon the recommendations of the special Advisory Committee on Faculty Children's Tuition appointed last September, which included Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College, chairman; Professors William A. Carter '20, Carl D. England, Albert H. Hastorf; and Mr. Meek and Mr. Dickerson.
In addition to the newly established program of assistance, the Gilman Faculty Loan Fund at Dartmouth will continue to be available for loans, without interest, on a long- or short-term basis to provide financial assistance to faculty and administrative officers in the college education of their children as well as for other purposes.
