680. Can Universities Win Back Our Trust? | Freakonomics Radio

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Dartmouth students ranked about two standard deviations above the mean in tolerance toward speakers on both the political right and left.
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Dartmouth climbed from the bottom 200-plus institutions in FIRE’s free-expression rankings to 35th the following year.
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Dartmouth found standardized-test performance predicted student success better than recommendation letters or grades.
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A clinical trial using hundreds of thousands of hours of data found benefits from an AI-powered therapist, especially for rural support.
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At Dartmouth, a student’s test performance relative to their high school’s average predicted success after accounting for practice and financial support.
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AI mental-health tools may expand access and early intervention, but students still question customization, energy costs, and human replacement.
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Test-optional admissions can hurt less-resourced students by making them less likely to submit scores that reveal their potential.
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Teach structured dialogue to every high school student, before polarization hardens into a college habit.
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Managing people well means adapting expectations and structure. The same deadline can motivate one person and overwhelm another.
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High-achieving students can collect reward after reward while never asking whether their lives feel full or happy.
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Title IX rules and grant-linked diversity requirements pushed universities toward particular ideological and administrative practices.
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Social trust grows when people from very different backgrounds come together around a common goal.
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Universities should explain their value, stay in dialogue with government, and resist unlawful actions without becoming partisan footballs.
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Universities are American institutions with global reach, ultimately accountable to the American people.
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Dartmouth’s AI mental-health project remains experimental, with hundreds of students building the dialogues behind its responses.
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A liberal-arts university’s job is preparing democratic leaders who bridge polarization and lead people with opposing views.
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Academic leadership lasts only when faculty candidates learn administrative responsibilities before they assume them.
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Institutional neutrality means universities and their leaders avoid policy positions unless those issues directly affect the university’s core function.

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