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On Oct. 2, the Trump administration offered nine schools a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” that would grant schools funding advantages if they adhere to certain admissions and operational standards. The College has until Oct. 20 to respond.
This Monday, as news of the hostage-prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas was met with glowing praise throughout the world, the Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi sat down for an interview with freelance journalist Fariba Amini. In it, he was not so optimistic.
Has anyone yet noted how ironic it is that Dartmouth was one of the colleges approached to sign the compact when it was Daniel Webster, a member of the Class of 1801, who successfully defended Dartmouth — and thus all private corporations — against government interference when he argued the case Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward before the U.S. Supreme Court? The case centered on the N.H. state legislature’s attempt to change Dartmouth into a public university, and the outcome was a landmark decision that protected private corporations from state interference by affirming that the Constitution’s contract clause prohibited states from impairing a contract.
Four weeks ago, when Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from his late-night show dominated headlines, a less-watched yet infinitely worse television controversy unfolded. Brian Kilmeade, co-host of Fox & Friends, suggested euthanizing homeless people who don’t want to accept government assistance. He wasn’t fired or even suspended. But he should’ve been. Not doing so sets a horrible precedent.
A White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” landed in Dartmouth’s inbox earlier this month, alongside letters to eight other universities, including Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — schools the administration has labeled “good actors.” The agreement offers preferential access to federal grants if universities adopt a 10-point framework governing nearly every aspect of academic life: admissions, hiring, tuition, governance and even endowment use.
This article is featured in the 2025 Homecoming Special Issue.
This article is featured in the 2025 Homecoming Special Issue.
This article is featured in the 2025 Homecoming Special Issue.
This article is featured in the 2025 Homecoming Special Issue.
Over a year ago, Dartmouth College leadership called in police to arrest 89 students, faculty and community members during a protest calling for divestment from Israel, claiming it was enforcing a policy against erecting encampments. The decision sharply divided the community, leading to faculty censuring College President Sian Leah Beilock and the student body voting “no-confidence” in her leadership. After this wave of discontent, in December 2024 the College formulated its “institutional restraint” policy, limiting the administration and academic departments to only making statements “when confronted with issues directly relating to Dartmouth’s mission.”
Theodor Geisel, better known by his pen name Dr. Seuss, is an illustrious figure in Dartmouth’s history. A legendary illustrator, cartoonist, medical school namesake and children’s author, the member of the Class of 1925 had a lengthy and fruitful career spanning eight decades.
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Dartmouth is among the nine campuses “invited” last week to preview the Trump administration’s latest protection racket: The federal government has promised that colleges that sign the compact will receive “preferential treatment” for federal funds, most of which the government is already required by law to provide to universities. In response, College President Sian Leah Beilock has promised us that she will “always defend our fierce independence.” While heartening, her message did not pledge to reject the compact. This pledge is what we are asking for now, urgently. At stake is open-ended federal control over the form and content of higher education, expressed in nakedly ideological terms.
In the aftermath of the GOP’s decisive victory in 2024, I wrote a column arguing that Democrats could appeal to working-class voters again by embracing big government populism and targeting the ultra-rich ruling class as the root of the layman’s problems. Since then, Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in the New York City mayoral primaries seems to have indicated a shifting tide in Democratic party politics in favor of this exact form of populism. Some have been quick to point to Mamdani’s recent victory as proof that this is the party’s future; writing for The New York Times, historian Timothy Shenk recently declared economic populism the winning strategy for Democrats, citing the key to Mamdani’s victory as “a scorching economic message delivered by political outsiders standing up to the powerful.”
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Re: After investigation, Hanover police contest Beilock’s announcement of swastika
Over the weekend, College President Sian Leah Beilock announced that a second swastika had been drawn outside the dorm of a Jewish student. Shortly after, The Dartmouth reported that the Hanover Police Department did not believe that it was a swastika, and described it as “positive and non-threatening.” That report was followed by a letter to the editor titled Admin, Do Your Due Diligence, calling out the administration and saying that it “needlessly” put the Jewish community on edge.
In case you missed the news yesterday, the Trump administration has formally reached out to Dartmouth to sign an agreement and join the new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” Signing on would come with requirements. The Wall Street Journal described some of the requirements as outlined by the Trump Administration – Dartmouth would have to “ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions, freeze tuition for five years, cap international undergrad enrollment at 15%, require that applicants take the SAT or a similar test and quell grade inflation.” In exchange, Dartmouth would receive funding preference.
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