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The NY Times published a piece on Dartmouth and how its president has avoided the kind of scrutiny that other Ivy League universities have gotten from the Trump administration.* Excerpt:
Some 600 college leaders recently signed a letter opposing the Trump administration’s interference in higher education. The only Ivy League president who did not sign the letter was Sian Beilock, the president of Dartmouth College. Instead, she wrote her own letter to her campus, saying that higher education institutions should strive to do better, “to further our standing as a trusted beacon for knowledge and truth.” ...
There is only one brief reference in the article to "dialogue" without any further elaboration:
...Dr. Beilock’s supporters see her as a champion of free expression and dialogue among people with different political viewpoints. They say she has been consistent, supporting these ideas long before the Trump administration or even the Hamas attack on Israel complicated campus politics...
What's missing in the article is what Dartmouth specifically did, and what most others - including UCLA - didn't do, in the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023: Seek to educate students on the conflict.
Of course, everyone is free to have opinions on everything and anything. But it is also (presumably) the mission of educational institutions to provide resources to inform those opinions. Dartmouth was notable for trying to address that mission:
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