<p>I think that the Board made a strategic move by hiring Dr. Kim. Hopefully, it will pay off.</p>
<p>Yeah, as far as that goes, I think Kim was a fine choice. Who knows, maybe it will be the researchers at the Dartmouth Medical School that make the breakthrough discoveries in AIDS research. He has also proven to be a great fundraiser, though never in an academic setting. He'll serve the board well. Not me, although I do hope he proves me wrong. Many of my friends are excited about the decision; some, like me, are more pessimistic. We'll see.</p>
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Hopefully, he can raise the profile of Dartmouth globally. Dartmouth is the best undergraduate school IMO, but is consistently ranked at the bottom of the Ivy League in many internatonal rankings.
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While that's not a good thing, if it means sacrificing more for post-grad research, I'd much rather take the lower rankings and lower profile. As long as we're still doing a good job at the undergrad level it's not a big deal. And honestly, even if we wanted to be a research university, as km7hill says, our rural location makes this a virtual impossibility.</p>
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And honestly, even if we wanted to be a research university, as km7hill says, our rural location makes this a virtual impossibility.
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Santa Clara Valley (these days it is known as Silicon Valley) was rural 50 years ago. See what Stanford and others have done for it. Although Hanover's weather is different from California, but we don't have to create another Silicon Valley. I would argue that if Dartmouth starts to put some effort into research and then turns the intelleual properties into products. Hanover will not be rural anymore in 50 years. Again, as Kim said himself, he has proven the naysayers wrong.</p>
<p>I would venture Hanover would like to remain rural.</p>
<p>but I have been wrong before.</p>
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Santa Clara Valley (these days it is known as Silicon Valley) was rural 50 years ago.
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<p>Perhaps rural by California standards, but the City of San Jose still had ~500,000 residents in 1970. Add in all the neighboring towns and burbs......and the South Bay population approaches what NH had statewide at the same time.</p>
<p>"I would argue that if Dartmouth starts to put some effort into research and then turns the intelleual properties into products. ..."</p>
<p>Would not be in Dartmouth tradition. See Kemeny, John. DTSS and BASIC</p>
<p>"In the 1960s, for example, John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz created the programming language BASIC. Their
motivation was not personal profit, but allowing students to create computer programs easily. They had previously
designed the first 'time sharing' system, through which a single computer could simultaneously serve many users.
BASIC, itself based on the pre-existing public domain languages Pascal and Fortran, was also placed in the public
domain. The programmers made it available to high schools and spent a considerable amount of effort in promoting the
language."</p>
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I would venture Hanover would like to remain rural.
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<p>Hanover just lost its last two farms when they applied for zoning permits to subdivide their land.</p>
<p>I would say that we are officially on the rural side of the 'suburban' spectrum.</p>
<p>man, y'all hear his address at the introduction?
if those are not empty words, if he keeps his word and delivers, then i can pretty much get behind him. im not seeing eye to eye with him 100%, but i dont think i'd call for his resignation any time soon.</p>
<p>but i am not fully convinced that we can keep everything that we have, and still become a world class research university.</p>
<p>i do absolutely love his service focus, and the desire to change the world, and to do so through Dartmouth, its students and its resources.</p>