Dartmouth President Philip J. Hanlon Caps Historic Tenure with Record-Breaking $3.7 Billion Fundraising Campaign Focused on building a more inclusive, accessible, and interdisciplinary future for Dartmouth, The Call to Lead is the first campaign to reach $3 billion and achieve more than 60% undergraduate alumni participation
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June 08, 2023 09:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time
In April 2018, President Philip J. Hanlon officially launched The Call to Lead: A Campaign for Dartmouth. This ambitious effort set out to raise $3 billion to advance Dartmouth’s distinctive liberal arts educational model, make discoveries that improve the human condition, and prepare students for lives of wise leadership.
Five years later, Dartmouth will close its most transformative campaign, supporting all faculty, undergraduates, and students in Dartmouth’s graduate and professional schools. It is the most successful campaign in the institution’s 253-year history, with more than $3.7 billion raised. The official end of the historic campaign on June 30 also marks the conclusion of President Hanlon’s decade of leadership at the institution as President-elect Sian Leah Beilock begins her tenure.
“Our community’s historic accomplishment—a campaign with $3.7 billion in commitments to date and 60 percent undergraduate alumni participation—is a resounding affirmation of the core values that define Dartmouth and our aspirations for the future,” says President Hanlon. “Ultimately, our success is measured not by funds raised but by lives changed and the impact we are having on the world.”
Record-breaking campaign sets new standard for excellence
The Call to Lead is the first higher-ed campaign to secure more than $3 billion in gifts and have more than 60% undergraduate alumni participation. As Dartmouth’s first global campaign, its planning involved a worldwide network of more than 200 volunteer leaders who helped secure donations from 105 countries. The breadth of the campaign—with more than 28,000 individuals making their first-ever gift to Dartmouth—inspired unprecedented giving by alumni of color and international donors. Women’s leadership in The Call to Lead is also unprecedented, both as volunteers and as donors, with 115 women giving $1 million or more during the campaign, 318 making financial aid gifts of $100,000 or more, and 2,712 giving to the renovation of Dartmouth Hall.
The campaign has reaffirmed Dartmouth’s distinctive foundational strengths, particularly its commitment to the life-changing power of a liberal arts education, the breadth and capacity of the institution’s research enterprise, and its dedication to offering an academic experience that enables undergraduates to engage with faculty who are both leaders in their field and devoted teachers and mentors.
The campaign’s theme of leadership inspired critical investments in both Dartmouth’s institutional capacity to find solutions to complex global issues and its time-proven ability to prepare young people for lives of leadership and impact.
At the same time, The Call to Lead has recast the institution in significant ways. Students and faculty have more opportunities to explore how technology and the arts can enrich their liberal arts experience, and the institution’s greatly expanded center for entrepreneurship is inviting students, faculty, and alumni to pursue the possibility of turning concepts into on-the-ground ventures.
Dartmouth has radically transformed its financial aid program with a $500 million investment in endowed scholarships—resulting in the elimination of loans from all undergraduate financial aid awards and universal need-blind admissions. Dartmouth today is one of only seven U.S. institutions to offer need-blind admissions to all undergraduates while meeting 100 percent of demonstrated need regardless of citizenship—and every student can now prepare for lives of impact with fewer constraints.
Building a more inclusive, accessible, and interdisciplinary future for Dartmouth
With support from The Call to Lead, Dartmouth has launched programs and initiatives focused on building an academic future that helps every student:
- The historic financial aid expansion benefiting all students, brings more perspectives and life experiences to the campus community.
- A $100 million Dartmouth STEM initiative aims to improve the success and leadership of historically underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
- Expansion of the First-Year Summer Enrichment Program has empowered more first-generation students to thrive at Dartmouth.
- As part of its commitment to interdisciplinary studies, Dartmouth has launched its tech-forward West End District, a hub for interdisciplinary learning, and expanded its Arts District.
- Dartmouth is piloting initiatives to expand research and experiential learning opportunities in fields as diverse as Arctic studies, global security, Black intellectual life, and tribal sovereignty.
Founded in 1769, Dartmouth is a member of the Ivy League and consistently ranks among the world’s greatest academic institutions. Dartmouth has forged a singular identity for combining its deep commitment to outstanding undergraduate liberal arts and graduate education with distinguished research and scholarship in the Arts and Sciences and its four leading graduate schools—the Geisel School of Medicine, the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business.
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