Counseling Consolidated

Marilyn Baldwin, currently Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs, has been appointed Acting Dean of Student Services in a move designed to consolidate and improve undergraduate counseling services.

The new position, according to Donald L. Kreider, Vice President and Dean for Student Affairs, was created partly in response to recommendations of the Budget Priorities Task Force that personnel in student services be reduced through consolidation and that higher Priority be put on support of student services.

Dean Baldwin will be responsible for achieving 'full consolidation of the three completely separate student affairs offices of Student Counseling, Student Services, and the Dartmouth Plan." A major charge is to define and develop "an effective career development center from the parts that already exist and to coordinate and support the efforts of student organizations in peer group counseling."

Kreider said Dean Baldwin and Freshman Dean Ralph N. Manuel '58 will work together "to consolidate the currently dissociated academic advising functions of the Dartmouth Plan and Freshman Offices into an effective academic advising center for Dartmouth College." In addition to eliminating confusion and discontinuity, he noted that the consolidation would "provide additional ways for direct faculty input into our formal academic advising."

Detailed planning should be completed by January 1, Kreider said, so that appropriate appointments and necessary committee actions can be completed by the end of the 1973-74 academic year.