Mark C. Taylor, the chairman of the religion department at Columbia, offers a radical proposal in
The New York Times for the restructuring of the American university system. Two key components of the proposal entail ending tenure and shuttering academic departments—replacing disciplines with problems, and then tackling them with a cooperative and multidisciplinary approach, e.g. The Department of the Future of Water made up of geologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and ethicists. Should we
End the University as We Know It?
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on Apr 27, 2009 -
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