Higher education has long prized individual expertise. Scholars master their fields, faculty are rewarded for their own research, and institutions often assume their job is to pour knowledge into students and guide the communities around them. But when learning moves in only one direction, institutions stop growing, and they miss what their peers, their communities, and their own students could teach them.In this role-reversal episode of Radical Cooperation, Stephanie Bihr, Associate Director of Communications at The Community Solution, turns the microphone around and interviews Dr. Michael Horowitz. Their conversation centers on two-way learning, one of the seven superpowers of radical cooperation that Dr. Horowitz introduces in his book, The Community Solution: The Power of Radical Cooperation in Higher Education. He shares candid examples from across his career, from rebuilding programs at The Chicago School to launching KansasCOM in Wichita, and explains why the strongest institutions treat learning as a two-way street with their peers, their communities, and their students.Rather than positioning the university as the sole expert in the room, this episode focuses on how a culture of continuous, reciprocal learning makes institutions more responsive, more connected, and more effective. It is a practical look at what it takes to keep learning, no matter how senior your role.In this episode:

What two-way learning is and why it is one of radical cooperation's seven superpowers
Why higher education's focus on individual expertise makes collective learning so difficult
How institutions can learn from students, especially adult learners who bring real-world experience
What KansasCOM's work in rural and underserved communities reveals about learning from a place
Why the best leaders, and the best accreditation teams, stay open to many ways of doing things