Information for prospective Dartmouth employees.

1. for Prospective
Dartmouth College Employees
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2. About this booklet
As you consider employment opportunities at Dartmouth
College, you are bound to have questions.What’s the easiest way
to get to Hanover? How available is child care? How can I learn
about the real-estate market? How diverse are the area’s cultur-
al offerings?
To assist you in learning about life at Dartmouth and in the
communities that surround it, Dartmouth’s Office of Human
Resources has prepared this booklet on the major topics —
education, real estate, transportation, child care, recreation and
culture, etc. — about which many who consider coming to this
area want to learn.
Human Resources is also happy to answer your questions
personally. Please call, write, or visit us at your convenience. Our
contact information is below. We also invite you to visit the
Dartmouth College web site, www.dartmouth.edu where you’ll
find information on all aspects of College life.Also in this book-
let, we’ve provided links to web sites for Hanover, surrounding
communities,the UpperValley region and area chambers of com-
merce.
Visit our Web Site:
www.dartmouth.edu
The Dartmouth College web
site, www.dartmouth.edu, has
information on all aspects of
College life — along with links
to web sites for Hanover, sur-
rounding communities, the
Upper Valley region and area
chambers of commerce.
What’s the campus like?
Where do people live
around here?
What’s the easiest way to get
to Hanover?
How available is child
care?
How can we learn about the
real-estate market? How diverse are the
area’s cultural offerings?
The Office of
Human Resources
Dartmouth College
7 Lebanon Street, Suite 203
Hanover, NH 03755-2112
Phone: (603) 646-3411
Fax: (603) 646-1297
E-mail: jobs@dartmouth.edu
World Wide Web:
www.dartmouth.edu/~hrs/

4. Contents
Welcome! An Introduction 4
The Historic Campus 6
A Growing Diversity 7
Volunteer Opportunities 7
The UpperValley 8
Communities 10
Getting Here 12
Health Care 13
Child Care 14
Employment & the Economy 14
Public, Private &Adult Education 15
Recreation, Fitness & Health 16
Computing and Internet Resources 17
Real Estate Options &Assistance 18
Shopping & Dining in theValley 18
Libraries and Museums 19
Culture and Entertainment 20
Local web sites:
www.dartmouth.edu
www.hanoverchamber.org
www.lebanonchamber.com
www.hartford_vt.org

5. Welcome to Dartmouth College. Located since 1769 alongside
the Connecticut River in Hanover,New Hampshire,Dartmouth is:
o one of the nation’s most prestigious institutions of higher
learning;
o a place where challenges and opportunities abound for stu-
dents and members of the College’s faculty,administration and
staff; and
o at the heart of the Upper Valley, an exceptional place to
work and live that includes some 40 communities in New
Hampshire and Vermont, on both sides of the Connecticut
river.
Dartmouth is the nation’s ninth oldest college and was the last
of the great American institutions of higher learning to be char-
tered under Colonial rule. In more than two centuries of evolu-
tion, Dartmouth has developed from its roots on the colonial
frontier into a college that has a special character and a unique
place in higher education.
A member of the Ivy League, Dartmouth enrolls approximately
4,300 undergraduates and 1,200 graduate students, from across
the country and around the world.
Combining the best features of a liberal arts college and a
research university, Dartmouth is renowned for the excellence of
its academic programs. Besides providing a wide-ranging liberal
arts curriculum for its undergraduates, the College offers more
than 20 graduate programs in the arts and sciences (including 16
Ph.D. programs) and is home to the Dartmouth Medical School
(founded in 1797, the nation’s fourth oldest medical school), the
Thayer School of Engineering,the nation’s first professional school
of engineering (founded in 1867);and theTuck School of Business,
the first of its kind in the world (founded in 1900).
Welcome! An Introduction
“College communities have become some of the most popular
places to live, and it’s easy to see why. Dartmouth College is inter-
ested in maintaining the natural beauty of the area and a healthy and
vital community. The quality of life here is not simply of value to the
community; it is critical to the College in terms of our ability to
attract and retain the best faculty and employees.”
James Wright, President, Dartmouth College
A Member
of the
Ivy League
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
Pennsylvania
Princeton
Yale

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Dartmouth Facts
Ninth oldest college in America
Four-year liberal arts institution
4027 undergraduates (from all
50 states and 58 countries)
55 percent participate in one
of 35 off-campus programs in
20 countries.
431 full-time undergraduate
faculty
39 academic departments
692 full-time instructional
faculty

7. Dartmouth College
The Historic Campus
6
Dartmouth’s 200-acre main campus is in the southwest corner
of the Town of Hanover, just above the wooded banks of the
Connecticut River and next to the town’s business center and
primary residential area.With its broad lawn and walking paths,
the College Green is a crossroads of campus life, surrounded by
many landmark College buildings and, on the south, by the
Hanover Inn and the town’s shopping and dining area.
With more than 1,700 trees of over 75 species, the campus has
been called “a northern arboretum.”
Just beyond Dartmouth’s classic center of campus are numer-
ous academic buildings and dormitories, along with the graduate
schools of business,engineering and medicine.A short distance to
the east are the College’s indoor and outdoor athletic facilities —
which serve 34 intercollegiate varsity teams, a rich variety of
physical education and intramural offerings, and various recre-
ational programs for members of the College and the surround-
ing communities.
Buildings Around
the College Green
o To the north, Baker Library
and the adjoining Berry
Library (opened in 2000), and
the nearby Rauner Special
Collections Library in Webster
Hall. Designed to be a library
for the 21st century, Berry is
also the hub of Dartmouth’s
world-renowned computing
services.
o To the east, the picturesque
white buildings described by
Hugh Morrison, an authority
on American architecture, as
“perhaps the finest group of
early college buildings in the
country outside of
Charlottesville, Virginia.”
o West of the Green are the
Collis Center and Robinson
Hall, focal points of student
life; and two Dartmouth
administrative buildings —
including Parkhurst, home to
the offices of the College
president, and McNutt Hall,
which houses the undergradu-
ate admissions office.
o To the south are the
Hopkins Center for the
Creative and Performing Arts,
the Hood Museum of Art and
Hanover’s Main Street.
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8. Over the past 30 years, the Upper Valley has grown steadily —
yet it has carefully and consciously preserved the rural New
England beauty of its 18th century heritage.Today, while the
communities around Dartmouth continue to safeguard their
traditions, they are becoming increasingly diverse and contem-
porary.This combination — the best of the past, the present
and the future, in an uncommonly scenic setting — has made
these towns into exceptionally satisfying places to live.
A Growing Diversity
Dartmouth Leads the Way
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Service and
Rewards:
Volunteer
Opportunities
If you come to the area
with energy, ideas and/or just
a hope of meeting people and
making a difference, there are
endless volunteering opportu-
nities among which you can
choose.
Volunteer and community
service opportunities in the
Upper Valley include:
o Religious programs;
o The United Way, any
one of its 30 member
agencies, or other human
service organizations;
o The Dartmouth-
Hitchcock Medical Center,
including the Children’s
Hospital at Dartmouth
(CHaD), and David’s House,
an independent resource for
families with children in
treatment; and
o A year-round array of
youth and recreation athlet-
ic activities.
At Dartmouth and through-
out the Upper Valley, the tal-
ent and dedication of thou-
sands of people involved in
volunteer services are a cen-
tral part of our way of life.
Resources for a diverse
community
Religious services in the Upper
Valley www.dartmouth.edu/~tucker/
religious/services.html
African and Caribbean Students
Organization
www.dartmouth.edu/~africaso/
Dartmouth Asian
Organization www.dartmouth.edu/
~asianorg/
Dartmouth Gay Straight
Alliance www.dartmouth.edu/~gsa/
La Alianza Latina
www.dartmouth.edu/~alianza/
Check the Dartmouth homepage for others

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The Upper Valley...
Annual Town Meeting,
Strafford, Vermont
During the past half-century, the Upper Valley has come to
include about 40 cities, towns and villages.The heart of theValley
is Hanover, home to Dartmouth, along with Lebanon and Lyme in
New Hampshire and the neighboring towns of Norwich,Hartford
and Woodstock in Vermont.The Upper Valley is a thriving social
and economic hub, a micro-urban environment in a remarkably
lovely setting that offers diverse lifestyle choices — rural living or
in-town convenience, larger communities or small villages. And
just as Hanover is central to the Valley’s geography, Dartmouth
College, a major employer and intellectual resource, is focal to
the region’s growth and attractiveness.
Interstates 89 and 91 connect readily to Boston (140
miles), NewYork (250 miles) and Montreal (180 miles). For more
on accessibility to and from the Upper Valley, please see the
Transportation profile.
The Connecticut
River
Originating in northern New
Hampshire near the Canadian
border, the Connecticut River
flows southward for 250
miles, forming the border
between New Hampshire and
Vermont on its way to
Massachusetts, Connecticut
and the Long Island Sound.
The river was the historic
“avenue” along which much
of this region was originally
settled — and in the com-
munities around Dartmouth,
the Connecticut’s beauty and
accessibility still appeal to
people who seek a New
England quality of life that
is both traditional and fresh-
ly renewed.

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Upper
Valley towns
Dartmouth employees live throughout the Upper Valley, with
the largest numbers in Lebanon and Hanover, New Hampshire
and in Hartford, Vermont. You can learn more from the brief
community profiles on the following pages, and by reviewing the
town web sites, as listed.
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11. Hanover, N.H. www.hanovernh.org
There are few community scenes more memorable than Hanover on
an autumn football Saturday, a snowy evening filled with holiday shop-
pers on Main Street, or a green summer’s delightfully quiet morning.
Hanover is a classic American college town — a community that takes
great pride in Dartmouth, and vice versa.With a population of about
10,000 people (excluding Dartmouth students), Hanover has retained
its New England town atmosphere while offering a wide array of shop-
ping, dining and cultural resources.
Main Street and its side lanes are a compact haven for shopping, din-
ing and around-town browsing.With the Dartmouth Bookstore and
Co-op, the tradition-steeped Hanover Inn, the timeless booths at Lou’s
Restaurant, and quite a few other cafes, restaurants, shops, boutiques
and larger stores, Hanover attracts area residents, students and their
families, Dartmouth alumni and the visitors who flock to this region
year-round — especially to enjoy the fall foliage and the wealth of win-
ter recreation.
Along with the College, Hanover is home to the U.S.Army Corps of
Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
(CRREL), and numerous research and development and light manufac-
turing companies that have sprung up around Dartmouth and help to
strengthen the community’s economic foundation.
Lebanon, N.H. www.lebcity.com
Just south of Hanover, the City of Lebanon is the area’s largest com-
munity, with a population of about 14,000 people. Lebanon was once
home to a thriving textile industry, but has since evolved into the area’s
leading manufacturing and retail shopping center, while remaining an
attractive residential community.
Lebanon has three major commercial-industrial developments: the
Centerra Resource Park, immediately south of Hanover; the Airport
Industrial Park in West Lebanon; and the Etna Road Industrial Park,
which is in both Lebanon and Hanover.
In 1991, the renowned Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
(DHMC) moved from Hanover to a spacious new campus complex in
Lebanon that is just three miles from downtown Hanover. Dartmouth
Medical School is a component of DHMC. In total, Dartmouth College
and DHMC are the largest employers in New Hampshire.
Communities
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12. Lyme and Orford, N.H. www.lymenh.org
www.orfordnh.com
Immediately north of Hanover, Lyme and Orford are residential-agri-
cultural towns. Like Hanover, their histories have been shaped by the
fertile soil fed by the Connecticut River and the streams that descend
from the surrounding mountains.While wood products have become
part of Lyme’s economic profile, the town’s major business is the
Dartmouth Skiway, owned and operated by the College and one of the
region’s leading recreational facilities.
Norwich,Vt. www.norwich.vt.us
Directly across the Connecticut River from Hanover, Norwich is a
graceful, predominantly rural residential community.
The Dresden School District, which serves students from Hanover
and Norwich, was the first two-state public school system in the
nation. Children in Norwich attend elementary school in that commu-
nity, then continue their educations at Hanover’s Richmond Middle
School and at Hanover High School.The same is true for residents in
Lyme, N.H.
Hartford,Vt. www.hartford-vt.org
The town of Hartford includes the historic railroad center of White
River Junction, the rural communities of Hartford Village and West
Hartford, and Quechee, a widely known residential-recreational village.
Hartford’s geographic variety has made it the region’s leading residen-
tial option on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River, a fact reflect-
ed in the town’s award-winning public school system.
White River Junction, where the White River meets the Connecticut,
was the region’s railroad hub for more than a century, linking New
England businesses and industry with eastern Canada. It remains a prin-
cipal link for Amtrak.
Two interstate highways, I-91 and I-89, meet in White River Junction
and are fundamental to the success of regional business and recre-
ational activities.
Beyond theValley’s
Center
With the celebrated
architecture of its his-
toric center and a variety
of resort and recreational
venues,Woodstock,Vt.
www.woodstockvt.com,
about 20 miles west of
Dartmouth, is one of
Vermont’s most pictur-
esque communities.A
similar distance to the
north of the College is
Orford, N.H., another
community renowned for
its stately residential
architecture.To the
southeast along I-89 are
the residential and recre-
ational attractions of the
community of Eastman in
Grantham, N.H.
(www.granthamnh.com).
Immediately south of
Lebanon are the rural vil-
lages of Meriden and
Plainfield (www.plainfield.
nh.us). Like Hanover-
Norwich-Lyme, Plainfield
and Meriden have a com-
parable public education
association with the City
of Lebanon.
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If you look at a map and imagine a
triangle that connects the cities of
New York, Boston and Montreal,
you’ll find that Hanover and
Dartmouth College are virtually
centered in this thriving larger
region.
Air www.lebcty.com/City_Resources/
airport/airport.html
The Lebanon Regional Airport
serves the Upper Valley with con-
necting flights to several airports,
including Boston, New York and
Philadelphia. Many travelers also
take advantage of the numerous
domestic and international flights
available at major neighboring airports.These include Manchester,
N.H., and Burlington,Vt., both 90 minutes from Hanover — along
with Boston’s Logan Airport and Bradley Field, north of Hartford,
Conn.
Rail www.amtrak.com/
Amtrak offers daily service through White River Junction for rail
travelers to New Haven, NewYork, Philadelphia and Washington,
D.C., as well as north to Montreal.
Bus www.greyhound.com/ www.concordtrailways.com/
A regional bus transportation system that provides numerous
daily trips to Manchester, Boston and New York.
Auto
Because two interstate highways meet just across the river from
Dartmouth, it’s easy to drive from here to Boston and Montreal
via I-89, which also goes to Burlington,Vt. and Manchester, N.H.
— and to hop on I-91 to NewYork City and other points south.
Getting HereWhere to Park
on Campus
Employees at Dartmouth are
issued parking passes through
the Transportation Office at
37 Dewey Field Road, room
201. For information about
parking, shuttle service to
remote lots, and bus services
to local towns, call the
Parking Office at 646-2340,
or check the web site:
www.dartmouth.edu/
~parking
There is also an extensive
public bus transport service
free to Dartmouth employees
in local towns known as
Advance Transit. See
www.advancetransit.com/
for more information.
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onvenient Access

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Medical services in the Upper Valley are centered at
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), the only aca-
demic medical center in New Hampshire. DHMC is the hub of
a medical-services network that covers much of New Hampshire
and Vermont. The Medical Center includes Mary Hitchcock
Memorial Hospital, and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, a multi-
specialty group practice of over 350 physicians; the Norris
Cotton Cancer Center, and Dartmouth Medical School.A fourth
component of DHMC is the Veterans Administration Hospital,
with over 200 beds, in White River Junction.
DHMC physicians and staff also participate in a community out-
reach program that extends to smaller hospitals throughout
New Hampshire. And the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Air Response
Team (DHART) provides a vital link in the region’s emergency
treatment networks.
Additional medical resources in the area include Alice Peck Day
Memorial Hospital, a 32-bed acute care community hospital with
a 50-bed nursing home in Lebanon with over 60 physicians on
staff. Other community hospitals include Mt. Ascutney Hospital
and the Health Center in Windsor, Vt., Gifford Hospital in
Randolph,Vt.,andValley Regional Hospital in Claremont,N.H.The
Upper Valley also has individual and group family practices, along
with the Good Neighbor Health Clinic in White River Junction
— which provides free care to uninsured and needy area resi-
dents, with much help from Dartmouth College and Medical
School student volunteers.
The Upper Valley also has many dentists and oral surgeons,
whose private practices are located throughout the area.
Health Care To Find a Doctor
Dartmouth utilizes a network
of affiliated doctor’s within
either the Health Source HMO
or Blue-Cross Blue Shield. To
receive a copy of the physi-
cian referral listing, call the
Benefits Office at 646-3588.
You can also check the local
yellow pages for dentists or
other specialists, and you can
also find a physician via
word of mouth with co-work-
ers.
For More
Information
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center
www.dhmc.org
Children’s Hospital at
Dartmouth (CHaD)
www.dhmc.org/chad/
Alice Peck Day Memorial
Hospital
www.alicepeckday.org
Mt. Ascutney Hospital
www.mtascutneyhosp.
hitchcock.org/
Good Neighbor Health Clinic
802-295-1868
Dartmouth College
Benefits Office
www.dartmouth.edu/
~hrs/benefits/
A Regional Hub

15. More than 25 state-licensed preschool day care centers serve
children and their families in communities throughout the Upper
Valley.
In 1984, Dartmouth responded to its employees’ need for this
service by establishing the Dartmouth College Child Care
Center. Located about one mile north of campus, this facility
accommodates 63 children from six weeks to six years old and
in 2003 was renovated to accommodate 86 children.
Dartmouth also operates the Child Care Project, a resource
and referral program that offers support services for families
and child care providers, and helps parents find quality child care
throughout the UpperValley. Project staff can refer families to
either licensed centers or family child-care homes, and they offer
extensive child-care consumer education.The project’s services
for care providers include technical assistance, home visits, train-
ing workshops and
individual consulta-
tion on business,
health and safety,
and early child-
hood education.
Child Care
Programs Across the Area
The Child
Care Project
Housed in the College’s Child
Care Resource office, the Child
Care Project is supported by
Dartmouth, other Upper Valley
employers, state and federal
funding and the Upper Valley
United Way. Project staff can
be reached at (603) 646-
3233, or (800) 323-
5446 in New Hampshire
and Vermont
www.dartmouth.edu/
~ide/childcare/
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With an unemployment rate that — at about one percent — is consistently below the
national average and the lowest in both New Hampshire and Vermont, the Upper Valley’s
economy is robust and full of job opportunities.
“The number of research and development and light manufacturing companies provide a
stable foundation for employment and commerce,” says a report by the local Chamber of
Commerce.“Biomedical, engineering and computer software firms continue to emerge.”
The area’s major employers continue to be Dartmouth College, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center and the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers’ Cold Regions Research and
Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). But businesses large and small abound in the Upper Valley,
and they offer a wealth of appealing and challenging options.
Employment & the Economy
AWealth of Job Options

16. A community that benefits — as the Upper Valley so clearly
does — from the intellectual environment centered at
Dartmouth College quite naturally places a very high value on
every level of education, from preschool through elementary
and secondary schools, and extending beyond to continuing
adult education.
In the communities that surround Hanover, the area’s general
business and professional growth has fostered ever-increasing
intellectual energy in the public school systems. For many years,
the Dresden School District was the nation’s only two-state
public school system, serving residents of Hanover and
Norwich,Vt. along with a number of tuition students from
other surrounding towns that did not have high schools.
Recently, the Rivendell Interstate School District was also estab-
lished for students in Orford, N.H., and Bradford,Vt., about 20
miles north of Hanover.
Also responding to the significant residential growth through-
out the region in recent years have been
the public school systems in Lebanon,
N.H., and Hartford,Vt., as well as the
Mascoma School District, which serves
the towns of Enfield and Canaan, N.H.,
and bordering communities.
In addition to public schools, nearly 20
private schools — ranging from pre-
school through elementary and second-
ary schools — are located in Hanover,
Lebanon and elsewhere across the Upper
Valley.
Dartmouth stresses the value of continuing education, and
encourages its employees to take classes to develop additional
knowledge and skills. Employees can benefit from the College’s
Tuition Assistance Program, and from the Community Special
Student and Graduate Special Student programs for enrolling in
Dartmouth College courses.
Area residents who want to resume or extend their education
can also turn to such area resources as Lebanon College; the
College for Lifelong Learning, a University of New Hampshire
extension program in Lebanon; and the Community College of
Vermont.
Learning Resources
for Everyone
Public, Private & Adult Education
Institute for
Lifelong
Education at
Dartmouth
(ILEAD)
For everyone who loves to
learn and never wants to
stop, the Institute for Lifelong
Education at Dartmouth
(ILEAD) offers all Upper Valley
adults the chance to study
topics that are selected by
the ILEAD membership and
are taught by members, with
an approach that emphasizes
participation. ILEAD is joined
to Dartmouth by a charter,
but operates independently
from the College.
www.dartmouth.edu/
~ilead/
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Other Resources
for Continuing
Education
Grant-in-Aid and
Tuition Assistance (TAP)
www.dartmouth.edu/
~hrs/olpd/tap.html
College for Lifelong Learning,
Mt. Tabor Rd. Lebanon, NH
www.cll.edu/regions/
cvr.htm

17. Dartmouth College joins communities and organizations
throughout the Upper Valley in offering an abundance of individ-
ual, team and family sports and recreational opportunities.
What’s available across the area spans all seasons, and meets
the interests of people of all ages and skill levels.
Area communities including Hanover, Lebanon and Hartford
offer extensive recreation and fitness programs at a variety of
public and private facilities.Youth activities for boys and girls
include (but are not limited to) sports — such as ice hockey,
figure skating, downhill and cross country skiing, baseball and
softball, basketball, field hockey, soccer, football, lacrosse, track
and field, swimming, tennis, golf
and karate.Area high schools
offer interscholastic sports.
If you also like to be a fan —
and if the color, tradition and
competition of Ivy League
sports appeals to you — then
Dartmouth’s 34 “Big Green”
intercollegiate teams for
women and men provide excit-
ing fall, winter and spring rooting opportunities.
College employees and members of the community make
extensive use of Dartmouth’s athletic facilities and fields
— including the gymnasium, fitness center, tennis and
squash/racquetball courts, swimming pools, and indoor
and outdoor tracks.The College encourages employees to
participate in the Fitness and Life Improvement Program
(FLIP), which guides people through many levels of exer-
cise.Additionally, the College’s Health Awareness Program
is a resource to learn about your health and ways to
improve it.
Outdoor, Indoor,
Everywhere
Recreation, Fitness & Health
The Upper Valley is an
extraordinary place for a
healthy lifestyle — an
area where you can enjoy
incredible outdoor and
recreational resources,
and where you can find
other people who enjoy
them as well.
The area’s rivers,
streams, ponds and lakes
are a treasury of
resources for sailing, row-
ing, kayaking and motor
boating and fishing!
With both the White
and Green mountains
nearby, the Upper Valley
region offers innumerable
hiking and biking trails,
along with camping facili-
ties. And with its
renowned Outing Club,
Dartmouth College has
for decades been a leader
in encouraging young
people to explore and
appreciate the outdoors.
Quite a few golf courses
and ski areas throughout
the Upper Valley and
immediately beyond.
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18. Members of the Dartmouth community rely on one of the
College's historical strengths - computing and information tech-
nology - to help them weave an ever-expanding virtual communi-
ty. Faculty, staff, and students can sit almost anywhere on campus
- indoors or out - and access world-class resources, with either
a wired or wireless network connection. In fact, the 2005 edition
of the Kaplan/Newsweek America's Hottest Colleges rated
Dartmouth "Hottest for the Tech-Savvy".
While there are a number of tools for building this community,
the virtual Dartmouth starts with the College's World Wide
Web domain, www.dartmouth.edu, which is made up of thou-
sands of sites, comprising hundreds of thousands of individual
Web pages.This constantly evolving electronic commons pro-
vides visitors the latest news and information about the College,
links alumni around the globe in an electronic reunion, offers
entrée to Dartmouth's administration, and is a resource for cur-
rent, prospective, undergraduate, and graduate students, as well
as for current faculty and staff.
BlitzMail - an electronic mail system developed at Dartmouth
in 1988 - also helps keep the conversation current.With more
than 60,000 subscribers, including all students, faculty, staff, and
alumni of the College, BlitzMail is the electronic messaging medi-
um of choice.
Voice and video are also being integrated into the network
environment, adding innovative multimedia and telecommunica-
tion services at the touch of a key.
Thriving in a “Virtual”
Community
Computing and Internet Resources
Off Campus
Internet Access
Off the Dartmouth campus,
different levels of Internet
access service–from dial-up to
DSL to cable Internet
access–are available around
the Upper Valley (depending on
location) from a host of other
service providers. Among the
providers is ValleyNet,
www.valley.net, a collaboration
of Dartmouth and the
Montshire Museum of Science
in Norwich, Vt.
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19. If you are moving to the area, you'll find plenty of people and
programs at Dartmouth and across the Upper Valley who are
ready and willing to help you find the right place to live.
Housing options in the Hanover area are typical of a college
town in a rural setting: they range from apartments and condo-
miniums to single-family homes. Except for College-owned
housing, prices tend to be highest close to the Dartmouth cam-
pus.
A number of resources are available to help you find and
secure the housing that suits you best. For College employees,
the Dartmouth Housing Programs Office manages a pool of
rental housing units in Hanover. The Office also maintains a
comprehensive list of rental units available in the private market
throughout the Upper Valley, and there is a Housing Liaison who
can help you with your search for housing.
Private real estate firms, many with national affiliations, abound
in the Upper Valley, and these realtors are available to assist you
in locating both rental and for-sale housing.The Dartmouth Real
Estate Office maintains a web site (www.dartmouthre.com)
with information on many of these firms, on other housing
sources, and on Dartmouth housing programs.
Finding the Right Home
Real Estate Options & Assistance
From Simple to Sublime
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Looking for a
Home?
The greatest concentration of
rental units are in Hanover,
Lebanon and Hartford, Vt.
Smaller towns, such as Lyme
and Enfield, New Hampshire
and Norwich and Thetford,
Vermont, also typically offer a
number of single-family home
rentals.
In recent years, the build-
ing of new housing in
Hanover and surrounding
towns has generally lagged
somewhat behind the brisk
demand — so at times, sin-
gle-family homes for sale,
especially in the most popular
towns, can be challenging to
find. Patience, persistence and
flexibility are the keys to suc-
cess. In fact, more than a
dozen towns of varying size
and personality lie within a
30-minute drive of Hanover
— and there are wonderful
homes for sale (and rent) in
all these communities. So
broadening your search will
increase your chances of find-
ing just the home you want.
The UpperValley offers a broad
and diverse array of shopping and
dining options — from high-end
boutiques to national chain stores,
from old-fashioned New England
lunch counters to innovative ethnic
restaurants.
In fact, the main street of every
UpperValley community has a
selection of specialty and retail
stores — notably Hanover, where
the shops can be both quirky and
Ivy League traditional. But the
region’s shopping center is in near-
by West Lebanon, just off
Interstate 89, with its elegant
Powerhouse Mall and even wider
variety of both distinctive shops
and chain stores, including large department stores.

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Shopping &Dining in the Valley
Browsing for Insight
Local Museums
The UpperValley is home to a number
of national and regional supermarkets,
along with the remarkable, member-
owned Hanover Consumer Coop —
which has grocery stores in Hanover and
Lebanon, and an auto service station at
the Hanover location.
When you’re looking to dine out, the
UpperValley features an eclectic mix of
restaurants in a wide range of styles, from
formal dining to fast food.The region’s
smorgasbord of menus literally spans the
globe, from contemporary American fare
to African, Chinese, Mexican, Italian, Indian
and Thai, to name just a few.
Traveling by interstate highway beyond
the UpperValley, you can easily extend
your shopping radius to major retail cen-
ters in Concord and Manchester, N.H.,
Burlington,Vt., Portland, Me., and
Holyoke, Mass.
In addition to Dartmouth’s Hood
Museum of Art, the area’s most
prominent museum is the
Montshire Museum of Science. Just
across the river from Hanover, on
the banks of the Connecticut River
in Norwich, the Montshire offers
indoor and outdoor exhibits and
programs for all ages. Like the
Hood Museum and Hopkins
Center, the Montshire is part of an
active arts and science education outreach program that serves
thousands of public school students every year.
There are also a number of museums in the Upper Valley that
reflect the region’s history. Notable examples are the American
Precision Museum in Windsor,Vt., which showcases the
machines that made machines; the Billings Farm and Museum in
Woodstock,Vt. and the Shaker Museum in Enfield, N.H.
Libraries
The Dartmouth College
Library includes nine libraries
on the College and
Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical
Center campuses. Dartmouth's
"open stack" libraries provide
access to a wealth of infor-
mation resources, including
2.4 million volumes, 21,000
current periodicals, six mil-
lion pages of manuscripts and
much more.
The Digital Library at
Dartmouth is the gateway to
a rich collection of online
resources, including over
30,000 e-journals, 100,000 e-
books, and 800 research
databases, and provides easy
access to the reference, docu-
ment delivery, and other serv-
ices the library provides.
The coupling in 2000 of
the new, high-tech Berry with
the stately, 1928-vintage
Baker Library brings to life
Dartmouth's vision of a 21st
century information center
and houses computing and
library services together.
Beyond the campus, in the
fine New England tradition,
every town in the Upper
Valley has a public library.

21. Cultural and entertainment activity at Dartmouth starts with
the Hopkins Center for the Creative and Performing Arts and
the Hood Museum of Art. But it doesn’t end there.
For the past four decades, the “Hop” has been home to the
theater, music and film studies/television departments at
Dartmouth.With its diverse venues — Spaulding Auditorium,
Moore Theater,Warner Bentley Theater and the Arthur M.
Loew Auditorium — the Hop offers a lively, varied and year-
round selection of programs for the College and surrounding
communities.
The Hood Museum, next to The Hopkins Center, is the home
of Dartmouth’s collection of fine art and is one of the nation’s
top museums affiliated with a college or university.
And — if the Dartmouth Film Society’s offerings of classic and
foreign films somehow aren’t enough — there are multiplex
cinemas in Hanover and Lebanon that present the latest films.
Culture and Entertainment:
At the “Hop” & All Over
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Performing Arts
Off campus, theater groups
abound throughout the Upper
Valley and offer regular stage
presentations at the
Claremont Opera House, the
Newport Opera House, the
Northern Stage Company in
White River Junction and
Chandler Music Hall in
Randolph, Vt.
Long-established groups
benefit from a wealth of
local talent to present light
opera and a range of classi-
cal music programs.
The Epic of the America Civilization: Symbols of Nationalism by Jose Clemente Orozco, 1883-1949

22. Office of Human Resources
Dartmouth College
7 Lebanon Street, Suite 203
Hanover, NH USA 03755
www.dartmouth.edu/~hrs/
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