Dr. Mark Taylor, Columbia University, is author of Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities. Taylor characterizes American higher education as expensive, wasteful, and archaic. He calls for reforms such as: Eliminating tenure; Restructuring departments for interdepartmental cooperation; Emphasizing teaching rather than rarified research; Creating global networks; Developing partnerships among institutions, private and public, for profit and nonprofit. As a nation, we fail to make such necessary and sweeping changes at our peril. Like other bubbles that hav
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