It’s a hard time to run a university: public trust is low, political pressure is high, and finances are fragile. But Daniel Diermeier, who trained as a political scientist, has Vanderbilt humming. How? He says the key is choosing magnets over wedges.
  
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 <li>SOURCES:
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 <li><a href="https://www.vanderbilt.edu/chancellor/biography-diermeier/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Daniel Diermeier</a>, chancellor of Vanderbilt University.</li>
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</ul>
 
<ul>
 <li>RESOURCES:
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 <li>"<a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-eds-new-crisis-managers" rel="noopener noreferrer">Higher Ed’s New Crisis Managers</a>," by Lee Gardner (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2026).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://www.persuasion.community/p/we-analyzed-university-syllabi-theres" rel="noopener noreferrer">Professors Need to Diversify What They Teach</a>," by Jon Shields, Yuval Avnur, and Stephanie Muravchik (Persuasion, 2025).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Call for Constructive Engagement</a>," (American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2025).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://americananthro.org/advocacy-statements/2020-statement-on-anthropology-and-human-rights/" rel="noopener noreferrer">2020 Statement on Anthropology and Human Rights</a>," (American Anthropological Association, 2020).</li>
 <li><a href="https://amzn.to/43Yzf5w" rel="noopener noreferrer">The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</a>, by Michelle Alexander (2010).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://provost.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/documents/reports/KalvenRprt_0.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kalven Committee: Report on the University’s Role in Political and Social Action</a>," (The University of Chicago, 1967).</li>
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 <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMQ0RUWCXYQNI0sdz2kj46nOL-diutRkjJ8WxJIXp0n2EHaA/viewform" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sign up here</a> to pre-screen our new video show.</li>
 <li>"'<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/a-low-moment-in-higher-education/" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Low Moment in Higher Education</a>,'" by Freakonomics Radio (2024).</li>
 <li>"'<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/if-were-all-in-it-for-ourselves-who-are-we/" rel="noopener noreferrer">If We’re All in It for Ourselves, Who Are We?'</a>" by Freakonomics Radio (2024).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/do-boycotts-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Do Boycotts Work?</a>" by Freakonomics Radio (2016).</li>
 </ul></li>
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