Five-Year A.B. Possible

A plan to permit Dartmouth students, under certain established procedures, to extend their undergraduate education over five years, rather than the usual four, was approved by the Trustees at their April meeting.

Under the new provisions, a student may submit an attendance plan spread over more than four years for the approval of the Dartmouth Plan Office and the Dean of the College. Furthermore, if he or she has already completed five terms of study, the chairman of the major department involved will have to certify that stretching undergraduate work beyond four years would not jeopardize satisfactory completion of the major.

Recommended by the faculty as a device to allow students to take full advantage of the built-in flexibility of the Dartmouth Plan, the new procedure would, for example, permit a student — after the required three terms' attendance of his freshman year — to spend each of the next four years with two terms in residence alternating with two terms on leave for employment, travel, vacation, or non-credit study.