Initiatives

Departments and institutions across Dartmouth’s campus will celebrate the College’s 250th anniversary throughout 2019 with special projects, exhibits, and conferences. The range of these initiatives reflects the rich and varied nature of each group’s contribution to the College’s overall celebration of this special year.

Events and Celebrations

Jan. 10—250 Kickoff Celebration
Jan. 12—Greenlighting Day
Feb. 26—Dartmouth 250th Anniversary and Campaign Celebration, Washington D.C.
Mar. 1-3—Dartmouth College Case Symposium
Apr. 2—Dartmouth 250th Anniversary and Campaign Celebration, New York
Jun. 7-16—Dartmouth Reunions
Jun. 15—Disrupted or Disruptor: Dartmouth in a Changing World
Jul. 26-27—Dartmouth 250th Anniversary Summer Celebration
Sept. 14—Dartmouth on Location: Minneapolis
Oct. 11-12—Homecoming
Oct. 26—Dartmouth on Location: Philadelphia
Nov. 9—Dartmouth Football vs. Princeton at Yankee Stadium
Dec. 13—Charter Day Celebration, Boston

For a complete list of upcoming events, including numerous conferences and symposia, please see our 250th events calendar.

Academic Events and Courses

Re-Performance of the Dartmouth College Case
Mar. 2019, 250 Academic Working Group

Roundtable: “Envisioning Dartmouth’s Future in the 21st Century”
June 2019, 250 Academic Working Group

250th Themed Courses at Dartmouth
250 Academic Working Group
Dartmouth will offer a wide range of classes and conferences designed to spur yearlong reflection about the College’s evolving place in a changing world. Courses include: "Is Dartmouth a Religion?", "Lest We Forget: Collective Memory and Slavery", and "Dartmouth Fictions: Hovey to Erdrich".

Global Summits

Join us for four unforgettable weekends filled with learning, fun, and inspiration. These summits will give Dartmouth alumni and supporters living 'round the girdled earth an opportunity to come together to celebrate this milestone year. Each summit will include interactive sessions with faculty and students, lively debates and open conversations about Dartmouth's role in our global future. 

Service

The Call to Serve
The Dartmouth community will come together to volunteer a collective 250,000 hours of service in 2019 to mark this banner year. United by Dartmouth, students, alumni, faculty, staff, and parents and families will pay it forward in their neighborhoods and communities around the world.

Performances

Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble
Fall 2019, Hopkins Center for the Arts
The Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble will perform a commissioned work by composer Oliver Caplan ’04 that will highlight special places at the College in honor of its 250th anniversary.

Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra
May 25, Hopkins Center for the Arts
This program includes a work commissioned by Dartmouth for its 250th anniversary, inspired by the murals by the famous Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco in Dartmouth’s Baker-Berry Library.

TEDxDartmouth: Living Bridges: Connectivity and Community
Apr. 13, TEDxDartmouth

Publications

Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Commemorative Sestercentennial Issue
The January/February 2019 issue of DAM celebrated the College's 250-year history. The entire issue is available online.

Dartmouth Undying: A Celebration of Place and Possibility
“All will agree that whatever else Dartmouth has been, it has been adventurous,” Earl Cranston, Class of 1919, wrote in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in 1944. That sense of adventurism, richly chronicled in the pages of this new book, colors the College’s storied past, defines its far-flung alumni, and animates the world-changing work that has emerged from Dartmouth’s teachers, researchers, students, and graduates. The new title will be available to ship at the end of February.

Dartmouth Alumni Travel

Peaks of the World Series
Dartmouth Alumni Travel
Make Dartmouth your basecamp to the world's highest peaks Whether you are an avid hiker or have an adventuresome spirit, let Dartmouth take you to new heights as you see or summit peaks on seven continents.

Ledyard Explorer Series
Dartmouth Alumni Travel
Embrace the adventuresome spirit of the College’s most famous explorer, John Ledyard. Travel in his footsteps with a Dartmouth faculty member to experience the destinations that inspired his global explorations.

Dartmouth Hall tower
Dartmouth 250
Events Calendar

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