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SCOUT· 22%59m·2026-10-18·HistoryCan Universities Survive? The Thousand-Year Story
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We start a new series about the long history and current predicament of universities by going back to the beginning. David talks to historian William Whyte about the origin story of the university nearly one thousand years ago. What made universities different from other places of learning? How did they assert their…
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