Dame Louise Richardson looks at the forces driving the global decline in democratic governments and the national decline in democratic practices. She says higher education has the ability to generate solutions, optimism, and trust. Richardson, a former vice-chancellor of Oxford University and principal and vice-chancellor of St. Andrews University, explains the role universities must play to close the diploma divide; teach tolerance; encourage participation, access, inclusivity, and freedom of speech; and act as sources for reliable and open knowledge, and fact-based information. She also warns that they can’t do it alone.
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