One of the best ways Dickey can help support Dartmouth faculty is through the Dickey Center Manuscript Review Program. The program is designed to provide helpful and timely feedback to faculty preparing monographs or other similarly large academic works prior to submission for publication.

The core of the program is the manuscript reveiw seminar. Rather than simply requesting individual reviewers to provide comments on the work, the Center organizes a review seminar in which all the reviewers and the author can respond to each other's comments and collectively devise strategies for overcoming any deficiencies in the text. As an endeavor in collegial constructive criticism, it represents the best of the academic endeavor.

Manuscripts selected for participation in the review program will be copied and disrubuted to Dartmouth faculty and two external reviewers identified by the author. The Dickey Center will then arrange a review seminar in which all the readers gather to discuss the work and assist the author in developing strategies for the manuscript's improvement and possible placement for publication. A collegial dinner follows the seminar at a local venue.

The Dickey Center carries all the costs for the program, including copying and distribution of the manuscript, travel, accommodation and honoraria for the external reviewers, and dinner following the seminar.

This program is open to all Dartmouth faculty with manuscripts that are near completion, but still in position to benefit from the review. Given sufficient demand, preference will be given to non-tenured faculty. The Dickey Center's mission of international understanding compels us to focus on manuscripts that are either international in substance or scope. We will, however, seek support elsewhere on campus for works that fall outside of our mission. The Leslie Center for the Hmanities, for example, has generously agreed to consider works that fall within the humanities, but which are not international, and will work with the Dickey Center to set up possible reviews for these works as funding allows.

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