680. Can Universities Win Back Our Trust?

Last week on the show we heard from the chancellor of Vanderbilt University, Daniel Deermeyer, who operates under a framework that originated at the University of Chicago. It's known as institutional neutrality. Which means That universities. University leaders will not take positions on policy issues or political issues unless they directly affect. the core function of the university.

This week we will hear from Sean Bilock, the president of Dirtmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Bailak runs Dartmouth using a similar framework. Yeah, I mean, I knew it as the Calvin report. I didn't know it as institutional neutrality, but I was faculty and then in an administration at Chicago for twelve years. So Bilock and Deermeyer have that in common: a belief in institutional neutrality and time served at the University of Chicago.

There's one big difference. Deermeyer trained as a political scientist with a focus on institutions. You can hear this when he talks. And what do you learn there? Із деталь really matter. Setting things up the right way.

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