The president of Dartmouth College says it will lay off about 76 non-teaching positions to help cut the school's budget by $100 million over two years.

Officials say the first 38 cuts will begin Tuesday with a similar number to follow in April.

The announcement Monday from President Jim Yong Kim followed a weekend meeting by the Board of Trustees of the Hanover school.

Like other Ivy League schools, Dartmouth has seen a sharp drop in the value of its endowment brought on by the recession.

Kim says about 60 percent of the layoffs involve professional and managerial employees and represent about 2 percent of Dartmouth's non-teaching work force of 3,400.