One of Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock first official acts was to use her inaugural address to announce the university’s latest building project: an undergraduate dorm.

Thanks to zoning changes proposed by two Dartmouth students and approved by Hanover Town Meeting last year, Beilock said the school was accelerating plans to build a dormitory with between 250 and 300 beds on a university-owned parcel at 25 West Wheelock St.

The property currently hosts a courtyard-style townhouse rental development.

“Our goal is not just to expand our capacity to house students, but to expand the options students have for how they live on campus,” Josh Keniston, senior vice president for capital planning and campus operations, said in a statement included in a press announcement of the dorm project. “We’re working with students and the broader community to define how apartment-style living can complement and become a core part of a healthy residential system as part of the house communities.”

The new West Wheelock dorm was part of a goal Beilock set in her speech to add 1,000 new beds for students, faculty and staff in the next 10 years, with a commitment to break ground on one project each for undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff within the next two years. Beilock also said the school would be doubling its investment in the Upper Valley Loan Fund, a collective effort of the area’s largest employers to expedite the construction and preservation of affordable workforce housing.

The school also said a planned and partially permitted, 400-bed undergraduate dorm on Lyme Road on the north side of Dartmouth’s campus would be redesigned as a dorm for 200 to 300 graduate students.

In her address, Beilock said scarcity of housing and child care are among “the biggest sources of stress in our community.”

Despite the zoning changes, the West Wheelock development proposal would still need some local approvals.