Our Platform

Preamble: In 2007, the Dartmouth College board of  trustees announced a new governance plan that provided for a substantial change in the selection process for trustees. Shortly thereafter,  six members of the leadership of the Association of Alumni voted to sue their college to try to stop the proposed changes in governance. In response, a group of dedicated alumni have formed Dartmouth Undying. We are a totally independent organization. We receive no funding or other support from Dartmouth College. In the spring of 2008 we actively campaigned to vote out the officers who filed the lawsuit, because we do not believe this is in the best interests of the Dartmouth education process. In the election which ended on June 10, 2008, the slate we supported was elected in every open position. On June 27, just seventeen days after taking office, the new leadership of the Association, was successful in getting the lawsuit dismissed. (see story on the Home page.)

First Plank: We will continue to work diligently to bring the Dartmouth family together again and make every effort to promote the interests of Dartmouth
    * by electing responsible and constructive alumni and Trustee leaders;
    * by restoring and maintaining order in the Alumni Association;
    * by using our resources and our democratic processes to build Dartmouth up

Second Plank: We will fight vigorously and act constructively to repair any damage that may have been done or may be planned going forward.
    * by electing positive people to the Association of Alumni Executive Committee;
    * by countering the egregious slanders and continuing misinformation;
    * by reducing the distractions plaguing our College; and
    * by addressing the real problems seen by alumni and by continuing to monitor any and              all divisive activity that is not in the bests interests of Dartmouth and its alumni 

Third Plank: We will build a rejuvenated and more effective partnership with the Trustees to serve Dartmouth through the 21st century and beyond.

We are fully committed to the new democratic alumni organization and processes as well as the Trustees’ initiatives for active interchange with alumni.

We will help make the Alumni Council’s newly created Alumni Liaison Committee (ALC) work, and work well. The ALC will provide a forum and a medium through which the Trustees regularly share with the community as a whole the issues -- both opportune and challenging -- they see the College confronting in the years ahead. The ALC will organize a vigorous exchange on these issues. The ALC will begin to function at the same time the newly created Trustee committees -- on alumni relations, faculty affairs and student affairs -- begin their work, and will become the main vehicle for alumni to interact with the first of these three. We will help all the new Trustees’ committees succeed. Together with the Alumni Council and the Association of Alumni, we will work diligently to build a new competence in and respect for these alumni and Trustee organizations.