College's Academic Administration Reorganized
A major restructuring of the academic administration of the College and its three professional graduate schools was announced last month by President Kemeny. The appointment of two additional vice presidents and elimination of the position of Provost are the main features of the reorganization.
The new post of Vice President and Dean for Student Affairs will be filled by Donald L. Kreider, Professor of Mathematics. Also, Dr. Carleton P. Chapman, Dean of the Medical School, will have the new title of Vice President and Dean of Dartmouth Medical School and will take on additional responsibilities in health-related fields.
These two officers join at the academic vice presidential level Prof. Leonard M. Rieser '44, Vice President and Dean of the Faculty, and Prof. Ruth Adams, retiring president of Wellesley College, whose appointment as Vice President to assist with coeducation is reported in this issue (Page 13).
The reorganization announced by President Kemeny at his monthly press conference over Station WDCR, has come about after nearly a year's study. President Kemeny initiated the review of the top-level administrative structure of the College following a gift from an anonymous alumnus to underwrite a study aimed at assuring Dartmouth was geared to meet the increasingly complex and changing needs of the final decades of this century. The New York consulting firm of Cresap, McCormick & Paget was engaged to undertake the study, and the new positions are based on the firm's recommendations, as approved by the Dartmouth Board of Trustees.
Louis Morton, Daniel Webster Professor of History, also played an important role in the study. He was named Provost of the College last year and was asked to review the present and future functions of that position. His recommendation was that the position be discontinued, since it was created mainly to meet special needs at a time when the future of medical education at Dartmouth was in question and is no longer useful.
Professor Morton has been penetrating and selfless in his analysis of Dartmouth's academic administration needs," resident Kemeny said. "It is not often that a man recommends the elimination of his own position. I respect his desire to return to the chairmanship of the History Department and to teaching and research. The College is in his debt for his exceptional service."
Professor Kreider, former chairman of the Department of Mathematics, is currently on leave and will assume his new position September 1. As Dean, he will supervise the work of the officers responsible for undergraduate affairs at Dartmouth, including the Dean of the College, Dean of Freshmen, Dean of the Tucker Foundation, Director of Admissions, Director of Financial Aid, Director of Outdoor Affairs, Coordinator of the Dartmouth Plan for Year Round Operation, and the Director of the Health Service. As vice president, he will supervise such institution-wide facilities as the College libraries and the Kiewit Computation Center. Vice Presidents Rieser and Kreider will, in addition, undertake special academic planning activities as requested by the President.
Dr. Chapman, a former president of the American Heart Association who has been Dean of the Medical School since 1966, will be in full charge of the Medical School as Dean. In addition, in his new position as vice president, he will represent the College externally in health-related concerns including Dartmouth's relationships with the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, the Hitchcock Clinic, and the Federal Government. Dean Chapman recently was elected chairman of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Dean Rieser, a physicist who was named a vice president last summer as a first step in the reorganization, will as Dean have full responsibility for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including the Hopkins Center for the performing and creative arts. As vice president, he will oversee the work of the Deans of the Tuck School and Thayer School, the Dean of Graduate Studies, and the Director of Continuing Education, and coordinate their activities with the work of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dean Rieser recently was named president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences.
Professor Kreider, who joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1960 after teaching for several years at M.I.T., is a specialist in logic recursive function theory, automata theory and set theory, and through research in these areas has become an authority in the utilization of time-shared computing in traditional mathematics and related courses. He has been co-director of a National Science Foundation project to develop computer-based teaching programs for firstyear college calculus and physics courses and introductory engineering courses. He is a 1953 graduate of Lebanon Valley College, with a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1959, and is former chairman of the Teacher Training Panel of the Mathematics Association of America's Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics.
In last month's press conference, President Kemeny stated that a second phase of reorganization, relating to nonacademic administration, will be announced shortly. An important new position here, he said, will be that of Vice President for Administration, to oversee all business activities of the College. As on the academic side, it is expected that four vice presidents will be reporting to the President, whose direct responsibility for day-by-day operations can thus be reduced.
Donald L. Kreider, Professor of Mathe-matics,has been named Vice Presidentand Dean for Student Affairs.
