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A PROFOUND SENSE OF PLACE. A PROFOUND SENSE OF PURPOSE.

ARE YOU ALWAYS ONE IN THE WATER?

WHERE IN THE WORLD is Dartmouth? Nestled in the woods of New Hampshire—just over two hours north of Boston, Massachusetts—you’ll find our vibrant, buzzing, global community in Hanover. Students from all 50 states and more than 90 countries converge here in our charming New England college town to learn from some of the world’s leading scholars against the idyllic backdrop of Hanover’s four seasons.

Founded in 1769, Dartmouth College sits on traditional, unceded Abenaki homelands.

ALWAYS THE FIRST WATER?

A PROFOUND SENSE OF PLACE

• A 15-minute walk from the Green, Ledyard Canoe Club rents kayaks, canoes, and stand-up paddleboards for a day of fun on the Connecticut River.

• The Appalachian Trail—the mountainous path that extends almost 2,200 miles from Georgia to Maine— passes right through downtown Hanover.

• The Dartmouth Skiway welcomes novices and experts alike to ski and snowboard its dozens of trails.

DARTMOUTH IS A FUSION of a renowned liberal arts college and a robust research university where students, faculty, and staff partner to take on the world’s greatest challenges. The College has more than 40 undergraduate academic departments and programs as well as four graduate and professional schools: the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth Engineering, the Geisel School of Medicine, and the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies. All undergraduate applicants apply to the College of Arts and Sciences and have up to two years to declare a major. At Dartmouth, seemingly different disciplines become natural partners: our undergraduates are artists and engineers; researchers and athletes; poets and entrepreneurs.

Pictured here in its new space at campus’s West End, the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society prepares Dartmouth students to shape a more equitable and sustainable future through interdisciplinary research and learning opportunities.

DO YOU SEEK A EMBRACES “AND,”

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• Dartmouth Engineering offers undergraduates the chance to earn both a Bachelor of Arts (AB) and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE).

• Undergraduate students can take up to three classes at the Tuck School of Business and apply to participate in the Tuck Business Bridge Program, an immersive educational experience that prepares top liberal arts students for careers in business.

• The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center—a teaching hospital affiliated with the Geisel School of Medicine— is a major tertiary-care site for patients throughout New England. Through the Nathan Smith Society Shadowing Program, undergraduates shadow professionals at DHMC to get a firsthand look at a career in medicine.

HOW WOULD YOU COURSE OF STUDY?

DARTMOUTH’S LIBERAL ARTS CURRICULUM teaches students how to think, not what to think. Students declare a major by sophomore year, but the classes they take span disciplines far outside their chosen concentration. And our iconic location is infused in the classroom at every turn—whether studying local food and energy systems at the Dartmouth Organic Farm, examining Shakespeare’s first folio at Rauner Special Collections Library, or shaking hands with presidential candidates visiting Hanover on the campaign trail. How will you explore?

BEYOND THE TOUR

African and African American Studies

Ancient History

Anthropology

• Three miles north of campus you’ll find the Dartmouth Organic Farm, a 220-acre patchwork of land home greenhouses, gardens, and beehives.

Art History

Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages

• Bema, a grassy amphitheater on the eastern edge hosts everything from outdoor study sessions to campaign visits.

Biological Chemistry M

Biological Sciences

Biomedical Engineering Sciences M

• The Hood Museum of Art’s encyclopedic collection the largest of its kind in the country, comprising 65,000 works. Take a look for yourself Wednesday Saturday; admission is free.

Biophysical Chemistry M Chemistry

Classical Archaeology

Classical Languages and Literatures

Classical Studies

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Cognitive Science M

Comparative Literature M

Computational Linguistics M

YOU CHART YOUR STUDY?

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Education m

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Human-Centered Design m

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Jewish Studies

Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies

Linguistics

Markets, Management, and the Economy m

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Middle Eastern Studies

Native American and Indigenous Studies

Neuroscience

Philosophy Physics

Portuguese (Lusophone Studies)

Public Policy m

Quantitative Social Science

Romance Languages M

Romance Studies M

Russian/Russian Area Studies

Social Inequalities m

Spanish (Hispanic Studies)

Statistics m

Studio Art Theater

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WHAT MAKES AN EXCELLENT TEACHER?

DARTMOUTH FACULTY are award-winning poets, patent-holding engineers, biologists conducting groundbreaking vaccine research, and more—but first and foremost, they love to teach. Dartmouth students don’t just learn from leading researchers; they become equal investigators in their work, often publish scholarly findings together, and count them as lifelong mentors in and out of the classroom.

AN TEACHER?

Scholars who love to teach.

• At the Digital Applied Learning and Innovation (DALI) Lab, students and faculty design and build mobile applications, websites, digital installations, and more.

• Dartmouth’s Take a Faculty Member to Breakfast or Lunch program allows students and professors to enjoy a meal together at a Hanover restaurant free of charge.

• The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Social Sciences is a hub for public policy research and leadership development on campus.

THANKS TO DARTMOUTH’S distinctive year-round quarter system—the D-Plan—students customize their own academic calendars across four years. Dartmouth offers four, 10-week academic terms per year that align with the four seasons. Within some guidelines, students choose how—and where—they’ll spend each of those terms, whether taking classes in Hanover, studying away on an off-campus program, or embarking on a “leave term” to pursue an internship, research, creative pursuit, or time off. The result? An academic experience that’s tailor-made for you, by you.

WHERE IN THE WORLD YOU ROAM?

BASECAMP TO THE WORLD

• The College offers over 75 off-campus programs, including its signature Foreign Study Programs (FSPs), Language Study Abroad (LSA) programs, and exchange programs across more than a dozen countries on five continents.

• Students receiving need-based financial aid pay the same net price for a term anywhere in the world as they would for a term in Hanover.

• Dartmouth’s Institute for Arctic Studies is one of the most robust of its kind in the world, engaging students and faculty in global policy dialogues that center inclusion, justice, equity, and Indigenous knowledge in finding solutions to Arctic challenges.

ARE YOU THE ADVENTURESOME

DARTMOUTH STUDENTS are bold, inventive, and curious. They embrace challenges with a signature adventuresome spirit. Find them jumping into an icy Occom Pond during the College’s annual Winter Carnival celebration; pitching their start-up to a board of investors through the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship; competing at the Olympics; learning a new language via the Rassias method, Dartmouth’s signature language-learning curriculum; or trying their hand at white-water rafting. What’s your idea of fun?

ADVENTURESOME SPIRIT

• A storied tradition hosted by the Dartmouth Outing Club, The Fifty sees teams of students embark on a 54-mile overnight trek along the Appalachian Trail, a mountainous path that extends from Georgia to Maine and passes through downtown Hanover.

• The College has sent athletes to every Winter Olympics since the Winter Games began in Chamonix, France in 1924.

• Originally developed for Peace Corps training, Dartmouth’s Rassias Method is an innovative teaching model that speeds language learning and increases language retention. Dartmouth students can explore an array of 12 languages as a major, minor, or part of another program of study.

ADVENTURESOME TYPE?

What’s your idea of community, storied traditions.

• Honoring Dartmouth’s vibrant Indigenous and panPasifika communities, the annual Powwow and Lū’au are student-led celebrations of Indigenous, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander cultures through music, food, singing, and dancing.

• Sanborn Library—a cozy, atmospheric space brimming with novels and poetry collections—has offered a daily afternoon tea service for decades.

• The College’s signature first-year trips program welcomes incoming students to the Dartmouth community through peer-led outdoor adventures across New England.

IDEA COMMUNITY?

OVER THE COURSE of two and a half centuries, Dartmouth has cultivated a powerful sense of community through beloved traditions that serve as the foundation for lifelong friendships. One of the College’s longest-standing traditions, Dartmouth Night during Homecoming Weekend was first held in 1895 as a celebration for alumni. More than 125 years later, the event—headlined by a colossal bonfire—has evolved into an annual gathering of current students and thousands of alumni. Each year, incoming students help build a towering wooden structure in the center of the Green. When the bonfire is lit just after dusk, alumni and older students cheer while first-years take a celebratory lap around the blazing structure, embracing the warm glow of the community surrounding them.

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Dartmouth will meet 100% of a student’s demonstrated need for all four years. The average scholarship for a member of the Class of 2026 is $67,127 an amount that equals 80% of the cost of attendance.

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Dartmouth will not include required loans as part of the financial aid award created to meet a student’s demonstrated financial need.

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Families that earn $65,000 or less and possess typical assets have a $0 expected parent contribution.

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Students receiving need-based financial aid pay the same net price for a term on a Dartmouth off-campus study program as they would for a term in Hanover.

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Dartmouth will provide scholarship assistance for financial aid recipients toward the cost of Dartmouth’s healthcare plan.

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Summary of policy.

This policy pertains to compensation for work related travel for Dartmouth employees.

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Dartmouth College Employment Policies and Procedures Policy last updated: January 23, 2014  

Applies to: All hourly employees (non-exempt)

Hourly employees are compensated for all worked time at their regular hourly rate. If an employee's work and travel time exceed 40 hours a week (Sunday to Saturday), he or she is eligible for overtime and will be paid at 1½ times his or her regular hourly rate. Where an employee is required to attend meals, receptions, or functions as part of an event or required program, he or she will be paid for hours worked. Time spent in training programs and lectures is paid work time.

Expenses incurred while traveling for the College, including mileage, are reimbursable.

Managers should encourage employees who often use their personal vehicle for College business to receive driver certification and rent a Vox car when appropriate.

Travel Accident Plan-Benefit

Regular eligible employees receive travel accident insurance coverage to protect them while they travel on College-related business. The employee's coverage amount varies based on his or her mode of transportation and the type of injury potentially incurred. Employees are automatically enrolled in the plan, effective on their date of hire. 

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The Business Expense Policy can be found on the Finance Center Web site:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~fincenter/

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Dartmouth Business Expense Policy Business Expense Reimbursement iExpense Quick-Start Guide Updating the Default iExpense Chart String Returning Unused Advance Funds Returning Funds for Personal Expenses

Dartmouth Business Expense Policy

The Business Expense Policy provide specific requirements for Dartmouth College travel and other business expenses. An allowable business expense is defined as necessary, reasonable, appropriate non-compensation expense incurred for a valid business purpose to fulfill the mission of Dartmouth College. The Business Expense polices also identify the documentation required to substantiate requests for reimbursement. These policies are necessary to ensure the proper use of Dartmouth resources and compliance with federal and other external regulations.

Read the full policy.

Business Expense Reimbursement

Dartmouth employees.

• Submit the iExpense Expense Report directly in iExpense (see below for Step-by-Step Guidance)
• For A&S, see ASFC and Research Contact List for approver at the A&S Finance Center
• The Expense Report Request eForm is not available for Geisel Employees

Students & Visitors

• Complete the Payment Request eForm for Students or Other
• Need to itemize expenses? Use this handy Business/Travel Itemization Template  and attach it to the Payment Request eForm

Meals & Entertainment Matrix

The Meals & Entertainment Matrix provides guidance on the acceptable payment method for meals and the documentation and details required for reporting.

iExpense allows faculty and staff to enter and submit expense reports using a standard web browser or a mobile device and integrates with Oracle Payables for quick processing and payment.

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• Quick Start Guide (pdf)
• User's Guide (pdf)
• Creating Nicknames in iExpense

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• 3-Step Approval Instructions (pdf)
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Step-by-Step Guide to Submission with iExpense (for Employees)

Download and print these instructions ., one-time setup.

• Default Approver (Optional): Preferences (right hand corner) > Expense Preferences > General > Enter Approver name (last name first) in Approver field > Save
• Allocations:  Chart String Nicknames (Optional): Preferences > My Allocations  > Enter an "Allocation Name" (the nickname that will display in a list of values when creating an expense report) in PTAEO or GL sections with the appropriate segment values > Save

Step 1: Start an Expense Report

• Login to iExpense and choose DC iExpenses > iExpenses Home > Create Expense Report

Step 2: Complete General Information

• Name (defaults to yourself) > Purpose > Approver > Expense template (Domestic or Foreign) > Accompanying DC Personnel (if applicable) > iExpenses Home > Next

Step 3: Clear Credit Card Transactions (Corporate Card)

• This step will only appear if you have a corporate credit card. Select credit card transactions to be cleared, assign appropriate Expense Type, and itemize the receipt if necessary by clicking the Details icon > Next

Step 4: Enter Receipt-Based Expenses (Personally Paid)

• For each expense paid for with personal funds you must provide the following: Date, Merchant Name, Receipt Amount, Expense Type and Justification (if the expense type is Gifts, Moving, or Entertainment); Itemize the receipt if necessary (e.g. alcohol) by clicking the Details icon > Next

Step 5: Request Per Diem Meals

• If requesting meals per diem, click on the "Per Diem Expenses" tab and provide the Date, Expense Type, Destination (use the flashlight icon to search), and Number of Days. If you need to deduct certain meals, click on Details icon > Next

Step 6: Request Mileage

• If requesting mileage, click on the "Mileage Expenses" tab. The current mileage rates for the dates and expense type will be automatically calculated. Provide Start Date, Expense Type (Business, Charitable, Moving), Trip Distance (total miles), Location From, and Location To details > Next

Step 7: Complete Allocations

• Allocation will populate with your default chart string. Select "PTAEO Allocations" to update to a grant account. Select "GL Account Allocations" to update the GL account. You can select nick names if they are set up.

Step 8: Apply Advances

• This step will only appear if you have an outstanding advance. You must apply any outstanding advances or document the reason for not applying the advance. See user manual for detailed instructions on how to apply an advance > Next

Step 9: Attach Receipts, Review and Submit

• Attach required receipts (see column labeled "Imaged Receipt Required) by clicking the "Add" button in the attachment section. Browse in your scan(s) and select "Apply." Review your report to ensure all expenses are listed. Select "Submit." The approver listed in General Information (step 2) will receive an email requesting approval for your submission.

Updating the Default iExpense Chart String

The default chart string for iExpense Expense Reports is maintained in HRMS. To update the default iExpense Expense Report chart string for an employee:

• Visit eForm Library and choose the General Request eForm . 
• Select "General Request/Other" Request Type.
• In the Request Explanation field, provide the employee's name, NetID, and the chart string that should be used as the default in iExpense. 
• Click "Submit" to have the request routed to the Finance Center for the string to be updated.

See Returning Funds for a Personal Expense charged to a Corporate Card or Unused Advance

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Dartmouth to launch pre-college program this summer

Two hundred high schoolers will take classes on campus from june 30 until august 9.

This summer, Dartmouth will host 200 high schoolers for its inaugural Dartmouth Summer Scholars pre-college program. Summer program participants will enroll in classes during one of three two-week sessions while the Class of 2026 is on campus for their sophomore summer, according to Dartmouth News. 

The non-credit courses will be taught by Dartmouth faculty and alumni, according to an email statement from Dartmouth Summer Scholars program leader Christine Parker. According to the program’s application form, courses will fall under nine subjects: business, computer and data science, engineering, humanities, law and government, leadership, medicine and health science, social science and STEAM. 

Courses include “Business Foundations” — taught by Tuck Bridge fellow manager Patroklos Karantinos — and “The New Essentials of Medicine,” co-taught by anthropology professor Elizabeth Carpenter-Song and student affairs interim director Manish Mishra, according to Parker. 

According to the online application, tuition costs $7,999 per session. Prospective participants must submit test scores, transcripts and short answer responses as part of their application. Parker wrote that the program is seeking “academically ambitious and intellectually curious” participants.

“We seek participants who share many key qualities of Dartmouth students, as well as those with interests in eventually attending selective institutions,” Parker wrote.

Parker wrote that Dartmouth will work to “significantly increase the financial assistance available by identifying more funding sources” to increase the program’s accessibility. 

The College will join other top universities that have summer sessions for high schoolers. Peer institutions such as Harvard University and Brown University currently operate similar programs, according to The Washington Post.

Dartmouth will work to “hone the program’s structure” following this pilot year, according to Parker. The College is looking into other summer program models, including hybrid, online, off-campus and certificate programs, which would allow Dartmouth to reach more people than can live on campus, she added. 

“We are excited by the many possibilities and look forward to involving more members of the campus community — students, faculty, staff, alumni and many others — in what we are building,” Parker wrote. 

The high schoolers will use Dartmouth’s classrooms, dining halls and library spaces, according to Parker. 

Members of the Class of 2026, who will be on campus during the program for their sophomore summer, expressed concern about sharing campus with high schoolers. 

William Summitt ’26 said it is “already weird” to see younger children and families around campus, adding that the College’s social environment might be difficult for high schoolers attending the program. 

“I imagine being a high schooler in this program might be a little alienating, or it might be hard to get integrated into the Dartmouth social space,” Summitt said. “Especially if they’re living on campus, I’m curious to see what they’ll end up doing in their free time.” 

Grace Caplan ’26 said that for her, the presence of high schoolers on campus may make it feel “a little bit overrun.” 

“It feels kind of selfish, but I feel like it would be super nice to have this calmness, [where] everyone you bump into is someone you probably know,” Caplan said. “I kind of hope that when this program happens, [the participants] will be somewhat relegated to certain spaces.”

Despite his reservations about the presence of high schoolers on campus, Summit said prospective applicants should “go for it.”

“It’s cool to be able to use [campus] to help people who might even be looking at going to Dartmouth for college,” Summit said. “I think getting our name out there and getting students exposed is important.”

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NLRB official rules Dartmouth men's basketball team are employees, orders union vote

A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board on Monday ordered a union election for Dartmouth College men’s basketball players, writing that “because Dartmouth has the right to control the work performed by” the players and “because the players perform that work in exchange for compensation,” they are school employees under the National Labor Relations Act.

In a 25-page ruling, Laura A. Sacks cited witness testimony from a hearing she held in October, as well as documents ranging from Dartmouth's athlete handbook, to the travel itinerary for Dartmouth's game at Princeton in January 2023.

This the second time in the past 10 years that an National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional director has ordered a union election for athletes in a college sports program. And Monday’s ruling occurs as the NLRB’s Los Angeles office has another case pending against the University of Southern California, the Pac-12 Conference and the NCAA regarding employment status of football, men's basketball, women's basketball players.

The issue of college athletes’ employment status also if the focus of a federal court case pending with the 3 rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. And it has captured the attention of Congress, which is being lobbied heavily by the NCAA, conferences and schools to pass a bill that would prohibit athletes from being declared employees of schools because they play college sports.

In March 2014, a union election was ordered for the Northwestern football team , but the results were never made public. The university requested a review of the regional director’s ruling by the full NLRB, and in August 2015 the board declined to accept jurisdiction over the matter saying that because the board has no jurisdiction over public schools, addressing the Northwestern effort would run counter to the National Labor Relations Act’s charge that the board create stable and predictable labor environments in various industries.

Dartmouth can seek a similar review of Monday’s ruling, but – as in the Northwestern case – a player vote can be held in the meantime. If Dartmouth seeks NLRB review and does not agree with the board's ruling, it can take that to a federal appeals court.

Even with the appeals available to the school, University of Illinois labor law professor Michael LeRoy said of Monday's ruling: "I think it's historic. The context has shifted dramatically in 10 years" since the Northwestern case.

The Northwestern case, he said, was "an oddity. This is a much colder reality." And he predicted that it will have an effect on the NLRB complaint involving USC, the Pac-12 and the NCAA. "It changes the psychology of what the reality of the unionization of college athletes means. ... The NCAA and its leadership have to be deeply worried," he said.

However, he also noted that with the lengthy time horizon for potential NLRB and court review and 2024 being a presidential election year, this could be change under a Republican administration.

NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, a Biden administration appointee, set the stage for the Dartmouth complaint when she issued a memo in September 2021 saying she views college athletes as employees of their schools under the National Labor Relations Act.

The complaint in the Dartmouth case was filed in September 2023, and a hearing was held in mid-October.

In Monday’s ruling, regional director Sacks, wrote that the players “perform work which benefits Dartmouth. While there is some factual dispute as to how much revenue is generated by the men’s basketball program, and whether that program is profitable, the profitability of any given business does not affect the employee status of the individuals who perform work for that business.”

She also wrote that Dartmouth “exercises significant control over the basketball players’ work.” She said that Dartmouth’s student-athlete handbook “in many ways functions as an employee handbook.”

She cited several examples of the manner in which the university, its officials and its coaches make determinations of what the players can do and when. Many of the examples she cited are part of the routine for most college sports teams, although she noted that for Dartmouth players “special permission is required for a player to even get a haircut during a trip.”

According to the ruling, Dartmouth had argued that these types of regulations were necessary for players safety and “no different from the regulations placed on the student body at large.”

“However,” Sacks wrote, “the record reveals no evidence that other members of the student body (the vast majority of whom, like the basketball players at issue here, are presumably legal adults) are so strictly supervised when they leave the confines of Dartmouth’s campus.”

Sacks found that even though Dartmouth’s players do not receive athletic scholarships, they receive “compensation,” including special treatment in their quest for “highly coveted” acceptance to the prestigious school.

“The coaching staff is allotted a certain number of … admission spots for players they scout based upon their basketball skills,” she wrote, “and encourages players to matriculate at Dartmouth rather than at a school which might offer them an athletic scholarship because of the lifelong benefits that accrue to an alumnus of an Ivy League institution.”

Sacks also rejected Dartmouth’s arguments that the school provides a wide range of support to all students, and that a finding that men’s basketball players are school employees could result in students participating in a variety of other extracurricular activities also being considered school employees.   

She noted that students’ involvement in other activities does not “dominate” their schedules “to the extent that students are encouraged to take classes at particular times and then miss those dutifully scheduled classes due to the activity’s travel requirements.”

Sacks cited testimony in the case concerning the scale of support athletics department personnel connected to the men’s basketball team, and she wrote:

“No evidence in the record suggests that other students receive the extent of individual support and special consideration received by those individuals who participate in high-profile Division I collegiate athletics. …

“The record also does not suggest that the hypothetical student journalists, actors, and musicians described by the Employer in its brief are recruited and admitted through a special process because of their investigatory and artistic skills. Nor does the record indicate that these students’ journalistic and artistic endeavors require Dartmouth to employ multiple specialized individuals to monitor funds and brand management.”

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Paychecks, Drafts and Firings: The Possible Future of College Sports

National Labor Relations Board testimony, now in the hands of a judge, could have wide-ranging consequences — positive and negative — for athletes and their institutions.

By Billy Witz

Reporting from Los Angeles

As Elijah Higgins sat on a witness stand last week, he detailed the similarities between his experience last season as a rookie tight end for the Arizona Cardinals and the four years he had spent playing football at Stanford University.

Five or six days a week at each level of play, he was immersed in football activities: lifting weights, practice, film study, physical therapy and playing games. There is travel on charter jets. Free tickets for friends and relatives. Robust coaching staffs setting rules.

There are some differences, Higgins allowed. In the National Football League, there are no classes to attend, though at Stanford, he said, academics took a back seat to football, which is why he still has a few classes to take before earning his bachelor’s degree in psychology.

The only other distinction is that, in contrast to Stanford, he now earns a paycheck. The minimum salary in the N.F.L. last season was $750,000.

Higgins said that at Stanford, in an environment where critical thinking was encouraged, he had begun to consider how money drove what he called the college football “system,” where even at an elite university like Stanford, the pursuit of academics was encouraged only so long as it did not interfere with football.

“I do agree with the fact that college football players are employees without status,” he said.

Higgins was the last of about two dozen witnesses who had testified over the last five months in a National Labor Relations Board hearing that bears wide-ranging consequences for a narrow question: Should football players, and basketball players, at the University of Southern California be classified as employees?

The case may not be decided for many months. But it will almost certainly end up in an appeals court, which is why there is such a voluminous record: 3,040 pages of transcripts from 21 days of testimony, along with more than 150 exhibits.

The record is so enormous that Eleanor Laws, the presiding administrative law judge who will determine how the National Labor Act applies to those players, granted lawyers an additional nine weeks to file their closing written arguments, which will now be due by July 31.

The charges have been brought by the N.L.R.B.’s general counsel on behalf of Ramogi Huma, the executive director of the National College Players Association, which advocates for college athletes’ rights. The defendants are U.S.C. along with the Pac-12 Conference and the N.C.A.A., which may have to classify athletes at member universities as employees even though the board has jurisdiction only over private institutions.

The testimony was often dry, and the hearing, which closed on Thursday, drew little attention as rafts of lawyers — as many as 16 at times — haggled over picayune details of control and compensation and whether athletes had actually been given the U.S.C. student-athlete handbook. (Though U.S.C. generated $212 million in athletic department revenue in the 2022-23 fiscal year, that is not relevant to the case, only that there is compensation and control.)

At times, the elasticity of reasonable arguments was tested.

For example, Jacob Vogel, the U.S.C. marching band director, spent more than three hours discussing with boundless enthusiasm the intricate details of his program, including how band members got dressed before football games.

The argument that playing football was little different from playing the tuba then came under cross-examination from Amanda Laufer, the lead lawyer for the general counsel, who asked how many of the 300 band members had no prior musical experience.

“About 10 to 15,” Vogel said.

“No further questions,” Laufer said, satisfied that she had provided a distinction with the football team.

The case is one of several fronts in the assault on the amateur model of college athletics. Emboldened state attorneys general have chipped away at the N.C.A.A.’s rule-making authority. Antitrust lawsuits that could force universities to pay out billions in damages are working their way through the courts. And last month, the Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted to unionize after winning the right to be classified as employees, a decision the college is appealing.

The N.C.A.A. is looking for relief from Congress, but any hope for an antitrust exemption is unlikely to come until after the presidential election — if at all.

The arguments before Judge Laws lay out contrasting visions of what college sports might look like if athletes were employees.

One is apocalyptic. The other is sanguine.

Teresa Gould, the newly appointed commissioner of the Pac-12 Conference, which is losing 10 of its member universities to other conferences by August, including U.S.C., which is leaving for the Big Ten, testified that high school football stars could be subject to a draft. She also argued that poor play — say a point guard who committed too many turnovers — might lead not to the player’s being benched but to his or her being fired.

Sonja Stills, the commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, testified that her collection of historically Black — and historically underfunded — colleges and universities “can’t afford paying out students,” who in turn wouldn’t be able to afford college if their scholarships were taxed as income. She expected Olympic sports to be axed if money had to be redirected to athletes. Women’s sports could also be imperiled, she said.

And Anastasios Kaburakis, the founder of a company that helps international athletes find opportunities to play at American colleges, described how many of those athletes would be shut out by having to obtain work visas in the United States.

Those cataclysmic assessments were waved away by another witness: Liam Anderson, a distance runner at Stanford, who characterized them as “fear mongering.” He said that not every athlete should be considered an employee and that universities would adjust — much as they have as market forces have affected big-time college sports through so-called name, image and likeness payments that are often made through booster-funded collectives .

And if college football players and players in men’s and women’s basketball could be paid as employees?

“I’d celebrate that outcome,” said Anderson, who served two years as co-president of Stanford’s student-athlete advisory committee.

Anderson’s testimony was among the more compelling during the hearing, which took place in a conference room in a nondescript office building in West Los Angeles.

Anderson described staying at the same Las Vegas hotel last year during the N.C.A.A. tournament as the Arkansas men’s basketball team. A security guard told Anderson his job was to ensure that players did not leave their rooms — a sign of control that buttressed testimony from former U.S.C. football players, who said they had been required to check in for meals with fingerprint scans and to text photos to anonymous attendance checkers to prove they were in class.

A loophole in the board’s byzantine rules allowed Anderson and Higgins, neither of whom attended U.S.C., to testify — even after the general counsel had exhausted its list of witnesses. Because the N.C.A.A. had called upon athletes from other universities to testify, the general counsel was able to call rebuttal witnesses who also did not attend U.S.C.

Opposing lawyers did not know who would be testifying until a witness took the stand, a procedure that protects witnesses in fair labor cases from intimidation. This often set off a flurry of computer searches by lawyers with sometimes only 30 minutes or so before cross-examination.

In the case of Anderson, that led to his being pressed by Daniel Nash, the lead lawyer for the Pac-12, to explain statements he had made in The Stanford Daily that were at odds with his testimony, including an instance in which he had called the idea of paying college athletes an “obvious financial impossibility” in a 2021 op-ed piece .

“My views on this have evolved,” Anderson said.

Lauren Herstik contributed reporting.