Dartmouth's 1769 charter grants the establishment of "a college ... for the education and instruction of youth of the Indian tribes." As the College entered its third century, however, the primary "Indian" presence was an unofficial mascot recognized by many undergraduates and alumni, but regarded as offensive by many Native Americans. As he had with women and other minorities, Kemeny reached out. He started the Native American Program (NAP) at Dartmouth and helped create the Native American Studies Department. For the first time ever, the admissions office began actively recruiting Native American students. After stepping down as president in 1981, he proudly noted that Dartmouth had graduated three times as many Native Americans during his administration as in the first 200 years of the history of the College. According to the NAP website, since Kemeny's presidency "over 500 Native Americans from over 120 different tribes have attended Dartmouth, more than at all the other Ivy League institutions combined."