David Kidd: The truth about Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn. and the Ivy League

David Kidd: The truth about Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn. and the Ivy League

THE TRUMP administration’s attack on the Ivy League, and much of the public’s delight in it, is based on a series of myths, misunderstandings, resentments and prejudices that obscure the general shift of our elite institutions toward egalitarian excellence and,…

Dartmouth’s community has mixed feelings about being the Ivy League’s ‘Switzerland’

In recent months, Dartmouth has received attention in national media outlets as the sole Ivy League school to largely avoid the Trump administration's renegotiation of federal funding: "How one Ivy League university avoided the president's wrath," declared The Economist on May 1. "How one Ivy League university has avoided Trump's retribution so far," published the New York Times on May 11.The articles come after College President Sian Leah Beilo…