The
Board of Trustees at Dartmouth College is meeting this weekend to determine how to cut one
hundred million dollars from the school’s budget over the next two years.
What started as an all-nighter at Dartmouth College has grown into a fundraising campaign that’s raised
more than $130,000 for Haiti’s earthquake victims and become a model for other
campuses around the country.
The Dartmouth College Board of Trustees is asking the administration to cut $50 million a year from the college budget in each of the next two fiscal years.
Dartmouth College is evacuating students participating in its Language
Study Abroad program in Cholulua, Mexico, amid concern over the swine flu outbreak.
Another
area institution has been forced to cut back because of the recession. Dartmouth College announced almost 150 job cuts this week – about a
third of them through layoffs – as it struggles to reduce spending by ten
percent over two years.