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College leaders navigate promoting, defending freedoms

Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock answers a question during the keynote conversation for this year’s Clifford Symposium, which explored “Why Academic Freedom Matters at a Liberal Arts College.” Beilock was joined on stage by Middlebury College President Ian Baucom and Sarah Guyer, Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.

Conversations on college campuses frequently tackle questions of academic freedom and freedom of expression. But numerous issues in recent years have prompted higher ed institutions across the country to go beyond discussing those freedoms and decide how — or if — to defend them, notably in responding to student encampments protesting the war in Gaza […]

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