Saving the Idea of the University

September 14, 2024 -- College campuses have become culture-war battlegrounds, but Dartmouth aims to preserve the true meaning of a liberal education.

Sian Leah Beilock

September 14, 2024 -- As students return to college campuses across the country and reunite with friends and classmates, I am struck by the number of my own Ivy League classmates who will not return this fall. Three of my newly minted presidential peers, to be exact: University of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill, Claudine Gay of Harvard, and Columbia’s Minouche Shafik. These losses have caused me, as president of Dartmouth, to reflect on the very purpose of a university as a home for intellectual inquiry and debate, and on what leaders can do to preserve that purpose.

Read the Full Article Here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/saving-idea-university-dartmouth/679790/