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Brown’s departure — which will take place at the end of the month — accompanies two additional staffing and organizational changes focused on community building..

Dean of the College Scott Brown will leave Dartmouth at the end of the month, College President Sian Leah Beilock announced in an email to campus on July 18. Brown — who has held the position since October 2022 — was set to serve until June 2025. 

Associate dean of student support services Anne Hudak and associate dean for student life Eric Ramsey will serve as interim Deans of the College, Beilock wrote. Brown was previously named to the interim position in August 2021, following the resignation of former Dean of the College Kathryn Lively in June 2021. His approval rating among the Class of 2024 was the highest of the administrators listed, at 57.99% in favor — compared to Lively’s 9% from the Class of 2021.

“[Brown’s] tireless efforts on behalf of students, his empathetic leadership style and his ubiquitous presence on campus have been hallmarks of his tenure,” Beilock wrote.

In her email to campus, Beilock did not provide additional details regarding the circumstances of Brown’s early departure. In an email statement to The Dartmouth, however, Brown wrote that planning for The Future of Arts and Sciences Project influenced his exit. If approved, the project would transform the Dean of the College position entirely. The project would introduce — along with a School of Arts and Sciences — a new Dean of Arts and Sciences position, expanding the role beyond student services to include faculty support. The Arts and Sciences faculty will take an advisory vote on the proposal in the fall, according to the project timeline.

“I am immensely proud of all the work we have been able to do in [the] Division of Student Affairs through these last three years and in setting up the next chapter,” Brown wrote. “In planning for the Arts & Sciences Future project, this was the right time for me to make this transition. I am very excited about what lies ahead for Dartmouth, and it has been my deep honor to work with our fabulous students.”

Currently, the Dean of the College oversees student affairs, including student support services, health and wellness, community life and inclusivity, student and residential life and the house communities, The Dartmouth reported. According to Beilock, Hudak and Ramsey will work to strengthen the College’s “mission to support undergraduate student learning and leadership” in their new roles. 

In an email statement to The Dartmouth, Hudak wrote that she is “thrilled to work even more closely with students.”

“Dartmouth’s incredible students and the dedicated staff in the Division of Student Affairs are among the many reasons I come back each year,” she added.

Ramsey also expressed his excitement to “support students and staff” as co-interim Dean of the College, adding that he and Hudak are “so grateful” for Brown’s leadership.

“One of the hallmarks of Dartmouth is the amazing learning environment and student community,” Ramsey wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth. “We’re going to keep building it together.” 

In her email, Beilock also announced two additional “staffing and organizational changes” aimed at strengthening Dartmouth’s “commitment to building community.” 

The William Jewett Tucker Center, Outdoor Programs and the Office of Community Life and Inclusivity will form “one administrative unit,” led by Jennifer Rosales. Rosales joins Dartmouth from Barnard College — where she served as vice president for inclusion and engaged learning and chief diversity officer — and will head the new entity as senior vice president for community and campus life. Rosales, who coincided with Beilock at Barnard, will work closely with Hudak and Ramsey, according to Beilock.

“I share Dartmouth’s aim for cultivating a wonderfully supportive community, and I see my role as a catalyst — someone who can build on existing strengths of this tight-knit community to help people connect to each other across all kinds of differences,” Rosales wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth. “I know that President Beilock is committed to strengthening Dartmouth’s community, and I am thrilled to join her in this important endeavor.”

Rosales will collaborate with individuals “across the university to identify community building and campus life needs” and “enhance the student experience” for undergraduate, graduate and professional programs, according to Beilock. She also will lead the College’s community relations.

“Each of the departments in this new area was created to serve undergraduates and, over time, many have informally expanded to serve wider segments of our population,” Beilock wrote. “While undergraduates will continue to be a strong focus, we are confident that intentionally and thoughtfully expanding access to all students will benefit a growing number of our community members.”

In addition, the College plans to increase support for international students. According to Beilock, senior vice president and senior diversity officer Shontay Delalue will “add global inclusion to her portfolio,” while her division — the division of Institutional Diversity and Equity — “will now provide support” for both international undergraduate and graduate students.

“[Delalue] will also be responsible for oversight of international risk management and mitigation policies for international travelers on Dartmouth-affiliated business, promoting the safety of all Dartmouth travelers who study and work abroad,” Beilock wrote. 

Delalue was not available for comment at time of publication.

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In recent years, tree-planting campaigns have been underway in the United States, especially in cities, as part of climate mitigation efforts. 

Urban forests can help improve air quality, generate cooling effects, and provide green spaces for outdoor recreation while also serving as an ecological habitat. 

Just last year, the U.S. Forest Service announced a $1 billion campaign to expand access to trees and green spaces throughout the country, including in cities.

But a new Dartmouth-led study finds that some areas within urban forests in the U.S. may be more capable of adapting to a warmer climate than trees growing around residential lawns in the city.

The findings are published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment .

The researchers were especially interested in understanding the various tree species in cities and correlations between native biodiversity and capacity for tree species to adapt to climate change in terms of water usage and tolerating droughts.

These implications are relevant given that droughts and water shortages in the U.S. are projected to become more frequent in the future.

There has been a lot of emphasis on tree planting in cities, but what people are planting in their yards may not necessarily be sustainable in our warming climate.

Using previously published National Science Foundation project data from six cities on how land-use changes have made urban areas similar—in Boston, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Phoenix—the researchers analyzed tree and shrub species in large public parks with natural areas that were relatively unmanaged and residential yards. They also analyzed reference sites representing the native ecosystems of the region that have been replaced by urban landscapes. Each of the cities represents a different ecological biome, or community of plants and animals, in a particular climate. 

When the researchers compared the tree species across the three land-use types within each of the cities, they found that species in parks and natural areas were more drought-tolerant and reflected greater native biodiversity than those in people’s yards.

Most of the tree species found in residential yards were non-native, which can lead to species invasion in natural ecosystems, and were also low in drought tolerance and therefore may not be able to survive warmer temperatures expected in the future. 

Prior research has found that approximately 30% of the land area in the U.S. is residential land, illustrating that trees planted in yards comprise a large percentage of the trees in an urban forest.

“There has been a lot of emphasis on tree planting in cities, but what people are planting in their yards may not necessarily be sustainable in our warming climate,” says lead author Gisselle Mejía , a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Studies . “In terms of sustainability standards, we recommend planting trees that are more diverse, more native, and also more climate adaptable in the future.”

“Planting trees that are drought tolerant and require less water than other species is something that should be considered,” says Mejía.

This is already the case for especially dry cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles, which had the most drought-tolerant species in parks and reference sites than any of the other biomes.

Trees in the hottest cities, Los Angeles, Miami, and Phoenix, had the most species with low water-use capacity in addition to drought tolerance. These included the widely planted native species Cornus florida (flowering dogwood) and Magnolia grandiflora (southern magnolia) and non-native species, also known as introduced species, Pyrus calleryana (callery pear) and Schinus terebinthifolius (Brazilian pepper).

“We need to understand the characteristics that people are looking for when they choose a tree to plant in their yard, so that educational platforms and incentives can be created to help get people on board with planting trees that would benefit all of us and potentially adapt to future climate change,” says Mejía.

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New research by government professor Brendan Nyhan shows that the relationship between education and antisemitism varies across countries.

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As antisemitic incidents around the world increase at a rate unseen since World War II , a new study underscores the need for political systems to promote tolerance.

The study was published this month in Research & Politics by lead author and James O. Freedman Presidential Professor Brendan Nyhan , with Shun Yamaya of Stanford University and Thomas Zeitzoff of American University.

The researchers analyzed data collected between 2013 and 2017 in more than 100 countries as part of the Anti-Defamation League's ADL Global 100 —the largest survey to date measuring individual-level attitudes toward Jews and endorsement of antisemitic stereotypes and conspiracy theories.

The ADL, which in 2019 named Nyhan a Belfer Fellow in support of his work researching and promoting awareness of online hate and digital citizenship, "generously agreed to provide us with access to the data from the surveys they had conducted around the world," Nyhan says. 

The researchers examined whether each country sponsored a UN resolution in 2007 that condemned Holocaust denial and joined a statement made at the UN in 2015 condemning antisemitism . The authors use these actions as proxies for country-level opposition to antisemitism in education and politics.

In their analysis, the researchers found that the relationship between education and endorsement of antisemitic stereotypes varied between countries. In countries that declined to endorse the U.N. statements, educated respondents were more likely to endorse antisemitic stereotypes. This trend was observed most clearly in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. For countries whose elites supported one or both of the U.N. statements, education level was associated with greater favorability toward Jews.

"It's easy to convince ourselves that more education is always better, but I was reminded that it can also make people more aware of and adherent to whatever views are prevalent in the context in which they live," Nyhan says. "That doesn't mean we shouldn't seek to provide everyone with a good education, of course, but it does highlight the need to promote tolerance in places where prejudice against certain groups may be more common. As we say in the article, education is not a panacea."

A renowned researcher of misinformation and conspiracy theories in the U.S., Nyhan expanded his scope in recent years to countries around the world. Two previous articles with Zeitzoff focus on conspiracy and misperception belief in the Middle East and North Africa and historical misperceptions among Jewish Israelis .

"Studying belief in antisemitic conspiracies and stereotypes globally was a natural extension of that work," Nyhan says. 

As a next step, the authors suggest that more research is needed on how elites and education foment or reduce antisemitism.

"We need new approaches that allow us to directly estimate the causal effects of education on antisemitism," Nyhan says. "Our design only allows us to show that the association between education and antisemitism varies between countries."

With expressions of antisemitism rising in the U.S. and Europe, Nyhan says it's essential for elites and educators to reject all forms of intolerance, especially right now.

"The messages that are sent to people on these issues can have far-reaching repercussions," he says. 

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