I've thought for some time that universities are going to be replaced (as centers of higher education, not job skills etc) with some new thing. Not that I think this is it, but it's nice to see new models being tried. The obvious concern is that with so much polarization this ends up being The Quilette of universities. It may be better to stand for something positive and dwell less on what's bad about the current system.

Also, this caught my eye:

> 1) every opinion will be heard and 2) every opinion must be supported by evidence

To me, having this as cannon is how you degrade into a citation / citation needed fest instead of having actual interesting philosophical discussions. I'd rather see opinions supported with reason (and good faith) as a first principle, and not pretend that all opinions are equal in a given discussion