The 2008 “leadership statement” for the last presidential search (pdf) favored the restarting of the master planning process and indicated some of the puzzles the planners will face:

The College believes that it has largely, though not entirely, fulfilled the ambitions of its successive Master Plans. In the course of the next Presidency, Dartmouth will probably need to continue the evolution of these plans, with careful attention to maintaining the walking campus and preserving the ethos of the College while allowing for new demands for high tech classrooms, more complex laboratories and improved facilities for student life. This will require a careful analysis of which functions should remain at the core of the campus and which can move easily to a periphery.

The college is “Currently engaged in Master Planning” (May 2012 Building Congress pdf) and an announcement of the selection of an architecture/planning firm is expected in the near future.

A memorandum published in connection with the Academic Center/Williams bond (pdf) states on A-10:

In concert with institution-wide strategic planning, Dartmouth has also initiated development of a Master Plan to ensure that campus design and space support its evolving needs. Designed to provide a campus framework for the next 10 years, the Master Plan should be complete in the spring of 2013.

The memorandum also notes that planning is under way to determine the spatial needs of an expansion in the number of faculty.