August 31, 2009
Q&A: Why Mark Taylor Wants to Abolish Your Department
Richard Howard
Columbia U.'s Mark Taylor has called for the creation of new majors centered around problems, like water issues.
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Richard Howard
Columbia U.'s Mark Taylor has called for the creation of new majors centered around problems, like water issues.
"End the university as we know it." That was the title of a much-debated essay in The New York Times last April by Mark C. Taylor, a professor of religion at Columbia University.
Mr. Taylor would like to abolish traditional academic departments and do away with tenure. What higher education needs, he wrote, is "a curriculum structured like a web or complex adaptive network."
The essay generated enormous
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