In a message on Sept. 25, announced that the search for the inaugural dean of Dartmouth’s newest school is now underway.
The School of Arts and Sciences officially launched in July, bringing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Division of Student Affairs together under one administrative structure and creating a new Division of Undergraduate Education. The school will be fully operational by July 2026.
“The new school is enhancing how Dartmouth College provides an exceptional, vibrant, and quintessential academic experience,” President Beilock wrote. “The new dean must be a visionary leader committed to Dartmouth’s extraordinary student experience and to the teaching, research, scholarship, and innovation that are at the heart of our mission.”
The search is being conducted by a search advisory committee of faculty and staff from across Arts and Sciences, as well as student and trustee representation. Committee members have elected Lincoln Filene Professor in Human Relations to serve as chair.
In the coming weeks, the committee will announce a series of listening sessions with members of the community. John Muckle ’99 and his team at Isaacson, Miller, are helping the committee find and vet candidates. of individuals from within or beyond the Dartmouth community.
In addition to Wheatley, the search advisory committee includes:
- Margaret Ackerman, professor of engineering, Thayer School of Engineering
- Richard Beaudoin, associate professor of music
- Adria Brown ’15, director of the Native American Program
- Jeffrey Friedman, associate professor of government
- Lexie Gauthier ’26
- Odette Harris ’91, trustee
- Michael Herron, Remsen 1943 Professor of Quantitative Social Science
- Luis Alvarez LeĂłn, associate professor of geography
- Mary Nyhan, director of the Undergraduate Deans Office
- Matthew Rizzo, vice president for development
- Jomysha Delgado Stephen, executive vice president for strategy, special counsel to the president, and secretary to the Board of Trustees
- Amie Thomasson, Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy
- Soroush Vosoughi, associate professor of computer science
Beilock thanked advisory committee members “for taking on this important work.”
She also thanked Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Arts and Sciences leadership team “for their work to ensure that the school will be fully operational and ready for the direction of the inaugural dean by July 1.”
