Dartmouth president bullish on AI amid campus divide, national concerns

The Boston Globe · Michaela Towfighi · 2026-11-06 10:30 UTC

After years of keeping her head down, Sian Leah Beilock is embracing artificial intelligence, even as it barrels through American society and her own campus.

HANOVER, N.H. — Among a fresh class of female faces at the helm of the Ivy League, Dartmouth College president Sian Leah Beilock is the last woman standing.

At the hands of both protesters and politicians, the newly appointed presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Columbia University fell in rapid succession under President Trump’s intense pressure campaign against campuses he deemed too left-leaning.

“I came into Dartmouth with several women leaders in the Ivy League who are now not president,” she said in an interview with the Globe. “I’ve been, you could say, in a high-pressure moment for a long time.”

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