Dartmouth breaks from Harvard when the president maintains political neutrality
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Dartmouth’s president has won praise from conservatives, but academia critics have denounced the attitude towards diversity of perspectives and the candidate’s attitude and fitness.
New Yorker’s Works Detailed President Cyan Beylock has pledged to support institutional neutrality amid the federal feud with higher education and ramp-prolonged anti-Semitism on university campuses.
Dartmouth refused to join a coalition of more than 600 universities, including its Ivy League counterparts. Harvard University When it fights, it attempts to freeze it into Trump administration’s fundraising.
In an email to the Dartmouth community explaining her decision not to join the coalition, Beylock reportedly wrote that “outside pressure on acceptance, censorship and untold things will not preclude the free exchange of ideas across campuses or institutions.”
Dartmouth Sian Beylock’s neutral attitude towards political issues has been praised by conservatives, but is being attacked by scholars. (Getty)
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Professor Yale Jeffrey Sonnenfeld has slammed the decision to refuse to sign the letter.
“This is a mixture of co-illness, hypocrisy and naivete,” Sonnenfeld said. “This is Trump’s classic playbook: division and conquest.”
“Everyone has a right to receive their opinions,” Beilock told her when he asked New Yorkers about the criticism they received for her decision. “People ask, ‘Why don’t you sue Trump like Harvard’s?” Well, (the administration doesn’t) made that kind of demand. ”
president Donald Trump Federal funding for all Ivy League schools, except for Penn and Dartmouth, has been suspended for investigations of anti-Israel protests on campus since October 2023.
Beylock argues that the university’s position is to “save university ideas,” New Yorker said, citing a piece she wrote in an outlet last year that described her approach.
Beilock was the first female president to be appointed to Dartmouth in 2022. She previously served as president of Bernard University.
New Yorkers said President Dartmouth’s main purpose was to “look at the perceived censorship of campus discourse.” Beilock created “Brave Spaces,” a disruptive play with the popular phrase “Safe Spaces.”
Based on that sentiment, Beilock launched a “Dartmouth Dialogue” to promote freedom of speech and debate.
New Yorker’s work details the president of Cyan Beylock, who has vowed to maintain diversity of perspectives amid higher education, particularly the federal feud with ramp-stretched anti-Semitism on Harvard University and university campuses. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukati, File)
Beilock has introduced a “institutional restraint” policy and requires Dartmouth officials, employees and staff to refrain from issuing “institutional statements” to “provide a space to raise a diverse perspective and fully consider”…
The New Yorker further reported that “Baylock had clashes with Wesleyan President Michael Ross about his compliance with what he called “a new form of conformism.” “As a heretic and as a Jew, I am very suspicious when my fellow countrymen find a new religion.
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After police clashed with Dartmouth affiliates in May 2024 at the protest that the camp was built, Beilock defended police actions, adding that the camp was a violation of school policy and that their presence was necessary to prevent further violence.
Following the event, Move to criticize Beilock It was featured by Professor Christopher Macebitt, a religion professor and Professor Annelise Oleck.
Beilock was criticized by 183-163 votes.
Anti-Israel protests by Harvard students and sympathizers. (Joseph Prezios/AFP via Getty Images)
As of the time of the announcement, more than 2,700 people have signed alumni petitions to encourage Dartmouth University to combat federal attacks on higher education.
The petition claims “Our institutions of higher education are facing an unparalleled, thorough attack from the federal government,” without directly mentioning the Trump administration.
Meanwhile, Beilock’s beliefs have been praised by conservatives.
“Her ideas have earned praise from supporters of free speech, conservative publications and members of the Trump administration, and the fierce criticism from academic leaders has convinced the university that they must unite against Trump,” the New Yorker reported.
Mother DillonThe WHIC, a civil rights aide to the US Department of Justice, is currently investigating most Ivy League agencies for anti-Semitism, but the New Yorkers have been recognized as praised by Beylock’s efforts.
“I was very impressed with how Dartmouth (my alma mater) learns how he’s doing it right, after all these years.
April 7, 2023, we pass through a college tour group outside the Baker Library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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Beilock didn’t respond immediately Fox News DigitalRequest a comment.