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/now/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/12/Presidents-Notes-Paul.jpg800533Our colleague, Harry Boyte, who heads Â鶹Çø’s Center for Democracy and Citizenship, recently argued in The Huffington Post that America needs an alternative narrative of higher education, one that focuses not on meritocratic excellence, but on “cooperative excellence…[the] principle that a mix of people from highly varied backgrounds can achieve remarkable intellectual, social, political, and