Dartmouth free for families up to $175K/yr
Dartmouth now offers free tuition for families earning up to $175,000 a year, part of its push to reduce economic barriers to elite education.
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The Present Moment: Chaos, Social Trust, and the University's Civic Role
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Dubner asks Beilock for her read on the current historical moment — is this chaos an interregnum or the beginning of something worse? She is characteristically optimistic but specific about what worries her: misinformation seeping through social media as fact, and the growing perception that a college education is a luxury good rather than a public good. This second point she frames as an existential trust problem: when significant portions of the American population across the political spectrum don't see college as a place for them, the university fails its civic function. Dubner invokes the literature on social trust — that sports teams and the military build it by bringing diverse people together around a common goal — and asks whether the university has failed at the same mission. Beilock concedes the university has stepped away from that function and must reclaim it by being relentlessly clear about its mission.
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