The trustees conducted a national search for the successor to then-president John Kemeny before deciding to elect their own chairman to the role in 1981.
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics were also established.
[1] Reflecting his business background, McLaughlin more than doubled Dartmouth's endowment,[3] which reached a new high of $521 million.
In 1985, the college drew national attention when a group of students affiliated with conservative newspaper The Dartmouth Review used sledgehammers to destroy a shantytown that had been constructed by students on the college green to protest South African apartheid.
McLaughlin also received backlash from students and faculty for reinstating the Reserve Officers Training Corps program.