Exchange Students

Under the student-exchange experiment adopted by ten eastern colleges, Dartmouth has accepted seventy women and one man for the 1969-70 academic year. The 71 exchange students, mostly juniors who will be classified as special students, plan studies concentrated in eleven academic areas. Their academic credits will be transferred to their home institutions.

The lone male exchange student is a junior at Wesleyan University who was attracted by the Mathematics Department and the Kiewit Computation Center. The women exchange students are coming to Dartmouth from ten colleges, mostly in New England. Smith will send 25, Mount Holyoke 15, Wheaton nine, Connecticut College and Vassar four each. The others are coming from CCNY, Sarah Lawrence, Skidmore, and as far away as Randolph-Macon in Virginia and Occidental in California. The women will be housed on the campus in Cohen Hall.

The experimental cooperative program was organized in late 1968 by ten New England college to expose their undergraduates to more comprehensive course offerings than might be available at any one institution. Other participating colleges in the charter group are Amherst, Bowdoin, Connecticut College, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Wesleyan, Wheaton, and Williams. An important criterion in Dartmouth's selection of exchange students was their identification of special Dartmouth courses they wished to take and that were not offered at their home institutions. The Hopkins Center drama program, which this year enrolled seven women as special students, attracted many applicants. In fact, Dartmouth received approximately three applications for every opening in the exchange program.

Between ten and fourteen Dartmouth students will participate in the Ten College Exchange Program. A breakdown shows five going to Vassar, from three to seven to Smith, and one each to Wesleyan and Mount Holyoke. Creative writing and history courses at the women's colleges generated the most interest among the Dartmouth exchange students.