With this ongoing series, The Rockefeller Center recognizes the valuable contributions provide by its alumni mentors to participants in the First-Year Fellows program. The First-Year Fellows Program provides students with opportunities to meaningfully engage in public policy early in their Dartmouth career.
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With this ongoing series, The Rockefeller Center recognizes the valuable contributions provide by its alumni mentors to participants in the First-Year Fellows program. The First-Year Fellows Program provides students with opportunities to meaningfully engage in public policy early in their Dartmouth career.
[more]College campuses often seem to operate in a different sphere from the rest of society. Especially on an isolated campus like Dartmouth's, students reference the perceived “Dartmouth bubble” that insulates the university community from outside society. Moreover, students at schools like Dartmouth fall under the jurisdiction of private university administrations and are subjected to their rules and regulations. In many cases, this blurs the lines of which constitutional rights are still protected under a public or private university’s authority.
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The First-Year Fellows program is a unique opportunity for first-year students to engage meaningfully in public policy early in their Dartmouth careers. Each year, around 20 students are selected and placed in fellowships with Dartmouth alumni in Washington, D.C., who are willing to take on a significant mentoring role.
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