President-elect Sian Leah Beilock and President Philip J. Hanlon '77 co-author an opinion piece about creating "brave spaces" and avoiding self-censorship. "The fear of speaking up is driving the discourse down," they write
Sian Beilock, president of Barnard College and president-elect of Dartmouth College; Christina Paxson, president of Brown University; and Gilda A. Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering and chair of the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science co-authored the following opinion piece published by CNN.com.
In this article published in Fast Company, President Beilock writes, "Without time constraints, we become less able to navigate stressful situations and more susceptible to choking under pressure."
Schools should drop the sink-or-swim mentality and fire up undergraduates' imaginations with the real-world problems they might solve through science.