Managing Difficult Conversations

Free Inquiry and Expression: From Principles to Educational Practice

Hundreds of colleges and universities have adopted free expression and institutional speech documents from the University of Chicago. In 1899, the University of Chicago faculty unanimously resolved that complete freedom

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A Stronger Commitment to Free Expression Improves Universities and Builds Public Trust

Higher education has long faced calls to improve its commitments to free expression and intellectual pluralism. Now under more pressure than ever to do so, and cognizant of historically low

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Beyond the Credential Factory: Why Higher Education Must Shift from Management to Flourishing

For decades, higher education leadership has obsessed over “student success” as a purely operational metric. We track retention and graduation rates and postgraduation outcomes with the same linear precision that

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Managing Difficult Conversations

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