Community Conversations

Dartmouth community members will be able to ask questions and get updates about the institution’s priorities, decisions, and operation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Videos from Past Conversations:

  • April 21, 2022: COVID-19 response leaders discuss protocols this term. In-person education, health, and safety remain the priority.
     
  • March 11, 2022: COVID-19 policies will be relaxed after winter term. Masks will be welcome, but not required, the COVID-19 leadership team says.
     
  • Jan. 27, 2022: Interim Provost David Kotz ’86 and Executive Vice President Rick Mills were joined by physician Lisa V. Adams, a professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine and associate dean for global health.
     
  • Jan. 12, 2022: A special edition of Community Conversations with President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 and other campus leaders as they announce a historic new development in Dartmouth’s mission to create a global educational experience enriched by geographic and socioeconomic diversity.
     
  • Dec. 9, 2021: Provost Joseph Helble was joined by Dean of the College Kathryn Lively and COVID-19 Task Force co-chairs Lisa Adams and Josh Keniston. 
     
  • Nov. 10, 2021: Interim Provost David Kotz ’86 was joined by Sam Brook ’25, Senior Vice President and Senior Diversity Officer Shontay Delalue, and Trustee Chair Elizabeth Cahill Lempres ’83, Thayer ’84.
     
  • Oct. 13, 2021: Interim Provost David Kotz ’86 was joined by Vice President for Alumni Relations Cheryl Bascomb ’82 and Mike Wooten, associate dean of residential life and director of residential education.
     
  • Sept. 29, 2021: Interim Provost David Kotz ’86 was joined by Scott Brown, interim dean of the College, and Marianne Thomson, interim associate dean of Student Affairs.
     
  • Sept. 15, 2021: Interim Provost David Kotz ’86 was joined by Mark Reed, director of the Dartmouth College Health Service; Rick Mills, executive vice president; and Elizabeth Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
     
  • Aug. 18, 2021: Interim Provost David Kotz ’86 was joined by Lisa Adams, MD, associate dean for global health and director of the Center for Global Health Equity, Rick Mills, executive vice president for finance and administration and Kellen Appleton ’20, director, first year trips. 
     
  • July 21, 2021: Interim Provost David Kotz ’86 was joined by Josh Keniston, vice president of campus services and institutional projects, and physician Ann Bracken, director of clinical medical services. 
     
  • June 23, 2021: Provost Joseph Helble was joined by trustee Chair Liz Lempres ’83, Thayer ’84; Neal Katyal ’91; and Dean Elizabeth Smith.
     
  • June 9, 2021: Provost Joseph Helble was joined by President Philip J. Hanlon ’77, trustee Chair Laurel Richie ’81, and E.J. Kiefer, executive director of Conferences and Events. 
     
  • May 26, 2021: Provost Joseph Helble on Community Conversations was joined by COVID-19 Task Force Co-Chair Lisa Adams, Dean of the College Kathryn Lively, and Janice McCabe, an associate professor of sociology and Allen House professor.  
     
  • May 12, 2021: Provost Joseph Helble was joined by Guarini Dean Jon Kull ’88, Associate Professor of Linguistics Laura McPherson, Interim Athletic Director Peter Roby ’79, and Associate Professor of Engineering Doug Van Citters ’99, Thayer ’03, ’06.
     
  • April 28, 2021: Provost Joseph Helble spoke with COVID-19 Task Force co-chairs Lisa Adams and Josh Keniston.
     
  • April 14, 2021: Provost Joseph Helble was joined by guests Ann Bracken, MED ’89, director of clinical medical services at the Dartmouth College Health Service, and Mike Wooten, associate dean of undergraduate residential life and director of residential education.
     
  • March 31, 2021: Provost Joseph Helble was joined by President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 and and Trustee Chair Laurel Richie ’81.
     
  • March 17, 2021: Provost Joseph Helble was joined by President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health CEO Joanne Conroy ’77.
     
  • March 3, 2021: Provost Helble was joined by COVID-19 Task Force co-chairs Dr. Lisa Adams and Josh Keniston; and Mark Reed, the director of the Dartmouth College Health Services and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Geisel.
     
  • Feb. 17, 2021: Provost Helble’s guests were Dean of the College Kathryn Lively and undergraduate Student Assembly President Cait McGovern ’21 and Vice President Jonathan Briffault ’21.
     
  • Feb. 3, 2021: Provost Joseph Helble’s guests on this week’s Community Conversations were Geisel School of Medicine Dean Duane Compton and Benjamin Chan, New Hampshire’s state epidemiologist. Chan, a physician, received a master of public health degree from Geisel in 2013 and did his internal medicine residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where he practices. He is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Geisel.
     
  • Jan. 21, 2021: Joining Provost Joseph Helble guests were Dartmouth staff members Ann Bracken, a physician and director of clinical medical services at Dartmouth College Health Service; Mitchel Davis, vice president and chief information officer; and Michael Wooten, associate dean of residential life and director of residential education.
     
  • Jan. 7, 2021: Provost Joseph Helble’s guests were epidemiologist Lisa Adams, who is co-chair of the COVID-19 Task Force and an associate professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine; Caitlin Barthelmes, director of Dartmouth’s Student Wellness Center; and Eric Ramsey, associate dean for student life.
     
  • Jan. 6, 2021: This webcast has been postponed due to unrest in the U.S. Capitol. The webcast will be rescheduled. See video to hear Provost Joseph Helble’s remarks canceling the Jan. 6 webcast.
     
  • Dec. 9, 2020: Provost Joseph Helble discussed Dartmouth operations during COVID-19 with guests Dean of the College Kathryn Lively and COVID-19 Task Force co-chairs Lisa Adams and Josh Keniston.
     
  • Nov. 11, 2020: President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 joined Provost Joseph Helble on the Nov. 11 Community Conversations webcast to discuss Dartmouth operations during COVID-19.
     
  • Oct. 28, 2020: Provost Joseph Helble spoke with Mary Lou Aleskie, the Howard L. Gilman ’44 Director of the Hopkins Center for the Arts; Walter Cunningham Jr., director of the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir; and John Stomberg, the Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961S Director of the Hood Museum of Art.
     
  • Oct. 14, 2020: Physicians Lisa Adams, who is co-chair of Dartmouth’s COVID-19 Taskforce, and Antonia Altomare, an assistant professor of medicine, and Hanover Town Manager Julia Griffin joined Provost Joseph Helble.
     
  • Sept. 30, 2020: Sue Mehrer, dean of libraries; and faculty members Lisa Baldez and Meredith Kelly joined Provost Joseph Helble.
     
  • Sept. 16, 2020: Associate Dean of Residential Life Michael Wooten and physician and COVID-19 task force Co-chair Lisa Adams joined Provost Joseph Helble.
     
  • Sept. 2, 2020: Physician Ann Bracken, director of clinical medical services at Dartmouth’s health service, and Jon Plodzik, director of Dartmouth Dining, joined Provost Joseph Helble. 
     
  • Aug. 19, 2020: Dean of the College Kathryn Lively, Dean of Thayer School of Engineering Alexis Abramson, and the director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) Scott Pauls joined Provost Joseph Helble.
     
  • Aug. 5, 2020: Physicians Martin Cetron ’81, director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the CDC, and Lisa Adams, MED ’90, co-chair of Dartmouth’s COVID-19 Task Force and an associate professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, joined Provost Joseph Helble. 
     
  • July 22, 2020: Provost Joseph Helble spoke with COVID-19 task force chairs Lisa Adams and Josh Keniston, and Chief Financial Officer Mike Wagner.
     
  • July 8, 2020: Provost Joseph Helble spoke with task force co-chair Josh Keniston, vice president for institutional projects, and Elizabeth Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
     
  • June 24, 2020: Provost Joseph Helble welcomed Neal Katyal ’91, a former U.S. acting solicitor general, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health CEO Joanne Conroy ’77.
     
  • June 17, 2020: Postponed.
     
  • June 3, 2020: Provost Joseph Helble discussed operational issues related to upcoming decisions in June and to fall term operations.
     
  • May 27, 2020: President Philip J. Hanlon ’77 and Board of Trustees Chair Laurel Richie ’81 were Provost Joseph Helble’s guests.
     
  • May 20, 2020: Provost Joseph Helble spoke with Dean Madden, vice provost for research, Margie Ackerman, professor of engineering, and David Leib, professor of microbiology and immunology. 
     
  • May 13, 2020: The return of student belongings was among the topics discussed in this Community Conversations broadcast, as Provost Joseph Helble spoke with Dean of the College Kathryn Lively and Vice President for Institutional Projects Josh Keniston
     
  • May 6, 2020: Guests invited were history professor Cecilia Gaposchkin, Petra Bonfert-Taylor, a professor of engineering, and John Lynch, former N.H. governor and a clinical professor at Tuck
     
  • April 29, 2020: Guests invited were Lisa Adams and Josh Keniston, co-chairs of the COVID-19 task force