A Dartmouth College dean with a history of support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel has withdrawn from his highly controversial appointment to a consequential administrative post.
N. Bruce Duthu alerted his colleagues on Monday via a Google document of his decision over the weekend to decline his nomination to dean of faculty, which was to take effect on July 1. He has also stepped down from the position he filled over the past year as an associate dean.