ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES

Dartmouth Names a Provost

THE appointment o£ Dean Donald H. Morrison to the newly created position of Provost of the College and several other administrative staff changes to take effect this year and next were announced by President Dickey last month, following the Commencement meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Professor Morrison, who has been Dean of the Faculty since 1947, became Provost on July 1 and in that new office assumed responsibility for coordinating and supervising the academic affairs of the College, under the President. Effective September 1, he will be succeeded as Dean of the Faculty by Prof. Arthur E. Jensen, presently chairman of the Department of English.

At the close of the academic year 1955-56 Prof. Stearns Morse, Dean of Freshmen, will return to full-time teaching in the English Department and his place as Dean of Freshmen will be taken by Albert I. Dickerson '30, Director of the Offices of Admissions and Financial Aid and presently serving, while on leave from his regular duties, as Executive Director of the Trustees Planning Committee.

Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36, Executive Officer of the College and this year Acting Director of Admissions, will become Director of Admissions on July 1, 1956; and on that same date, Robert K. Hage '35, Executive Secretary of the Committee on Scholarships and Loans and Assistant Director of Admissions, will become Director of the Office of Financial Aid. Mr. Dickerson during his present assignment with the Trustees Planning Committee has been responsible for overall policy supervision of admissions and financial aid and he will continue to carry this responsibility when he becomes Dean of Freshmen.

The new position of Provost was created by the Trustees to provide an officer to assist the President in the overall supervision and coordination of the academic affairs of the College and of the three associated schools of medicine, engineering and business administration. In a special memo to the faculty President Dickey explained that such assistance had become a necessity if the President of the College was to remain an active participant in the daily academic work of the institution.

Mr. Morrison, in addition to providing this assistance, will have primary responsibility for representing the President in educational policy matters. Particularly he will work on the educational program currently being studied by the Trustees Planning Committee and the faculties of the College and associated schools.

Professor Jensen will be associated with the Provost and the President in this planning activity. As Dean of the Faculty, he will have primary responsibility for faculty personnel matters, including particularly the recruitment and development of new teachers. Professor Jensen, in addition to his administrative duties, will continue to teach a course in Victorian literature during the first semester and will participate in either freshman English or honors work during the second semester.

Professor Jensen, a 1926 graduate of Brown and holder of a Ph.D. from Edinburgh, joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1937 and became full professor in 1945. His faculty responsibilities have extended far beyond the English Department, which he has headed for the past two years. He was Director of the Great Issues Course in 1949-50 and chairman of the course's steering committee from 1950 to 1952. This year he has been a member of the important Faculty Committee on Educational Policy and also chairman of the Committee on Proficiency and Placement.

Dartmouth's new Provost came to the College in 1945 as Assistant Professor of Government, after being with the Bureau of the Budget in Washington for three years. He was promoted to full professor in 1947, and on July 1 of that year became Dean of the Faculty at the age of 32. He was graduated from the University of West Virginia in 1936 and received the Master's and Doctor's degrees from Princeton. For the past eight years, as Dean of the Faculty, he has been the President's executive officer on all faculty matters and has played an important part in determining educational policy and programs.

Mr. Dickerson has been an administrative officer of the College ever since graduation in 1930. He was Assistant to President Hopkins and Director of the News Service from 1930 to 1933, then Executive Assistant to the President, 1933-44, and Executive Officer of the College, 1944-48. From 1933 to 1946 he served also as executive secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. In 1946 he became Director of Admissions and in 1952 he added the responsibility for the financial aid program. This past year he has been on leave to serve as executive director of the Trustees Planning Committee, which is devising a program for progress on all fronts between now and 1969.

Mr. Chamberlain, who becomes Director of Admissions a year from now, has been Acting Director this past year while Mr. Dickerson was on leave. He also has been with the College since graduation, serving as Assistant to the Dean of Freshmen, 1936-43, Assistant Director of Admissions, 1945-48, Assistant Director of Athletics, 1948-50, and Executive Officer of the College from 1950 to the present.

Mr. Hage joined the administrative staff of the College in 1947 as executive secretary of the Hopkins Center Project. The next year he was named Assistant Director of Admissions and in 1952 when the Office of Financial Aid was established he was appointed its executive head, while retaining his admissions position.

DONALD H. MORRISON Now Provost of the College

PROF. ARTHUR E. JENSEN To be Dean of the Faculty

ALBERT I. DICKERSON '30 To be Dean of Freshmen

EDWARD T. CHAMBERLAIN '36 To be Director of Admissions

ROBERT K. HAGE '35 To be Director of Financial Aid