Trustee Study of Coeducation

The executive committee of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees has voted to establish a comprehensive and concrete review-study of Dartmouth's total existing and prospective program developments for the decade of the seventies with particular attention to the question of the education of women in the College.

Dudley W. Orr '29, chairman of the Trustees' executive and planning committees, will chair the study group, and Leonard M. Rieser '44, Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will serve as co-chairman. Other members of the committee, to be appointed shortly, will include members of the faculty, student body, administrative staff, Trustees, and alumni.

In establishing the study, the Trustees' executive committee accepted a recommendation of the Dartmouth Campus Conference that the Trustees organize an in-depth study of the education of women at Dartmouth. The executive committee

emphasized that this question must be examined in relation to Dartmouth's total institutional commitments to top-quality higher education, taking into account all existing and prospective programs.

The executive committee contemplates that such a comprehensive review-study will embrace educational developments elsewhere, faculty, student, alumni and community views, strategic site planning, land acquisition, educational facilities and programs, housing and boarding, financial resources, and those important intangibles of heritage and place that must be taken into account in planning any institution's future.