HANOVER — Dartmouth College will not grant physical education credit for two-day camping and hiking trips at least through this spring.

Students are required to get three PE credits before they graduate, and in the past, they could choose to get them through hiking and camping trips run through Dartmouth’s Outdoor Programs Office.

The halt is meant to allow time for the office to weigh responses to an incident last May in which a 21-year-old Dartmouth student became lost on Mount Moosilauke while on a “Hiking Overnight” class that originally had been scheduled to take place on the much smaller Moose Mountain.

The student, Arun Hari Anand, was found two nights later. Moosilauke, which has an elevation of 4,802 feet, still had deep snow at higher elevations.

The director of the Outdoor Programs Office resigned in June, the same day Dartmouth said that an investigation in the wake of the incident had found “significant room for improvement.” Dartmouth also agreed to reimburse state officials for search and rescue efforts in the incident.

An email and social media message left for Anand this week were not returned.

Eric Ramsey, the associate dean for student life at Dartmouth who oversees the Outdoor Programs Office, said in an email this week that since May, the office “has significantly curtailed the programming sponsored by the office while we work toward establishing the systems we need to improve risk management and maintain alignment with best practices in outdoor education.

“It is our hope to gradually reintroduce office-sponsored programming this summer,” Ramsey added.

Dartmouth spokeswoman Diana Lawrence said that the Outdoor Programs Office will still offer credit for other Dartmouth Outing Club trips and clubs and for teams such as the Ledyard Canoe Club and the climbing team. In addition, students can still get credit for the completion of a Wilderness First Aid course or an introductory Nordic skiing class. The statement also said that “courses facilitated by a qualified outside contractor” will still be offered.

Jacob Chalif, a junior who has served as treasurer of the Dartmouth Outing Club, said via text, “OPO PE classes are managed by staff, not students, so none of us are involved in those decisions.”

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