Dartblog
Welcome to Dartmouth's most influential daily
Each day, Dartblog and its team of alumni and students bring you news and commentary from Hanover and the world at large. Read our iPhone edition here.
Archived post
This is an archived post. Please click here to see the latest entries.
« Alumni Elections: Vote For One | Home | College Vehicles: The Thrifty Right Hand Versus the Wasteful Left One »
More Like a University Every Day
Maybe we really are on our way to becoming Dartmouth University after all — if your definition of a university is an institution that has as many or more graduate students as undergrads.
Even though the faculty has passed several resolutions over the past decades directing the administration to keep graduate students below a certain percentage of undergrads, the number of graduate students continues to rise, and the proportion of undergrads declines:
Since 2003, the number of Arts & Sciences grad students has increased by 33.5%; Medical School students, 38.4%; Thayer students, 48.4%; and Tuck students, 17.9%. The number of undergrads has gone up by only 2.32%.
Here’s the data for the A&S graduate program. Medical programs and Biology grad students in their various incarnations seem to lead the way.
I wonder if Dr. Kim and Professor of Biology Carol Folt have had anything to do with these increases?
Addendum: At the current rates of growth, we’ll have more grad students than undergrads in about 25 years, or perhaps less, depending on how you do the math.
Featured posts
-
October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…