When an encampment went up in May 2024, Beilock had protestors arrested within two hours. Under her leadership, admissions has prioritized students who can act as "bridges between people" and students with "underrepresented" viewpoints—the admissions director used as an example someone who led his high school's Young Republicans club and was dialogue-focused. Her Dartmouth Dialogues project has spent hundreds of thousands bringing in speakers from both sides.
Above all, Beilock believes schools should be "in service of truth," not "ideology," and cannot allow disruptions to free speech
One suspects that is a controversial position, especially in the Ivy League. An honorable one, though.
I was not up on this, even though I am in state. Dartmouth has been almost as bad as the others as long as I can remember, though particular departments have been very evenhanded. This is very good news. All the communities around Hanover(!) have been overtaken by an invasive species of polyester (In This) House plants, so she won't have an easy job holding the line. They will lie in wait until she commits some unrelated error and then pretend that's the reason they are trying to oust her.
ReplyDeleteGood on her.