Tennille Haynes is being promoted to associate vice president for campus life and inclusive initiatives and will take on permanent leadership of Institutional Diversity and Equity effective July 1, Dartmouth leaders announced this week. 

Haynes has been overseeing IDE on an interim basis over the past year. 

In her new role, Haynes will continue to be a member of the president’s senior leadership team and will report to Jennifer Rosales, senior vice president for community and campus life and chief student affairs officer. 

“This is a natural fit for Community and Campus Life,” says Rosales, “helping our inclusion work grow across partners who have the same goals under clear, shared direction. The more closely these teams work, the better we can serve our community.”

In addition to leading IDE’s existing work—including organizing the popular Inclusion Champions (a cohort-based faculty and staff training program), the annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, and the Social Justice Awards—Haynes will now also oversee several student-facing programs, including the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, the Native American Program, Veterans Affairs, the International Student Experience Office, and the William Jewett Tucker Center. 

Haynes will work closely with the Office of Institutional Research to conduct campus climate surveys to help identify and address ongoing strategic needs. Responses to the most recent survey, conducted in winter 2025, were just released (PDF).

“I look forward to continuing this work at Dartmouth and expanding our reach, partnerships, and impact in meaningful ways, taking an even more expansive approach to supporting the entire campus community,” Haynes says.

“IDE does important work across Dartmouth, partnering with faculty, staff, Human Resources, and the Provost’s Office on institutional climate and strategy,” Rosales says. “Joining Community and Campus Life will connect this work more explicitly to the student experience as we continue to support faculty and staff at an institutional level.”

Haynes joined Dartmouth in fall 2024. At a May 12 town hall meeting with faculty and staff, Rosales said, “Tennille has been a fabulous partner with me on the senior leadership team.” 

Haynes previously held leadership roles at Princeton University, most recently as associate dean for campus life, and served for four years as associate director of the Center for Leadership and Student Involvement at Colgate University. A native of the Bronx, she did her undergraduate work in history at Stony Brook University and went on to earn a master’s in education from Utica College and a doctorate in higher education from Rutgers University. 

Haynes said she looks forward to continuing the work that Senior Vice President Shontay Delalue, who is leaving Dartmouth at the end of June to take a fellowship with the American Council on Education, undertook in her five years at Dartmouth. 

“I’m really appreciative of what Shontay has accomplished, and I’m excited to pick up where she left off and help Dartmouth grow further,” Haynes says.