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As of Oct. 12, 569 Dartmouth faculty members have signed a petition urging College President Sian Leah Beilock not to sign the Trump administration’s “Compact” for higher education, which would set restrictions on College policies in exchange for funding benefits.
In an email to campus on Oct. 3, Beilock wrote that the College “will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.”
“I am deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence,” she wrote. “You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better.”
A College spokesperson declined to comment on the petition.
The faculty petition asks that Beilock “refuse all unlawful demands and political threats that would undermine [Dartmouth’s] academic freedom and self-governance.”
“The compact, in attempting to assert state control over admissions, tuition, grades, hiring, teaching, and research, is a direct threat to the beating heart of the university: free inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge,” the petition reads. . . .
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