What Matters Higher Education Now (Reflections from the Council on the Uncertain Human Future)

In early 2024, the Council on the Uncertain Human Future began a series of Threshold Councils to explore fundamental questions about the present historical moment. One of them focused on higher education, posing the question: What matters now in higher education?

Prior to the sessions, participants were asked to submit brief written responses to this prompt:

What matters most in the context of higher ed, and how it might shape-shift for these times? If we could lean into the cracks together...what spaces and practices might arise? What really matters for our students, ourselves, the earth?

These writings, along with a few other contributions, are collected here.