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A New Book Blames Higher Ed's Decline on Cost, Bureaucracy, and Conformity (opens the original)
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The Weekly: Can Cornell see the future? (opens the original)
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Are Universities Still the Enemy of "Truthiness"? (opens the original)
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The Weekly: Can higher ed explain itself? (opens the original)
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Surprising Findings from 14,000 AI-Facilitated Student Conversations (opens the original)
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Pair two students who strongly disagree about immigration or abortion, tell them to hash it out, and most people expect it to go badly. Across almost 14,000 conversations, it hasn’t. In this Heterodox Academy virtual colloquium, HxA Segal Center Senior Fellow Simon Cullen presents two years of data from Sway, a chat platform that pairs students who disagree and drops an AI facilitator into every conversation. Over 90% of students report feeling comfortable, and that number stays flat across roug
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