About Anything » universities http://www.alstevens.org The personal blog of Al Stevens. Focus is overrated. Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:18:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Monday’s reads http://www.alstevens.org/2009/04/27/mondays-reads-2/ http://www.alstevens.org/2009/04/27/mondays-reads-2/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:48:12 +0000 Al Stevens http://www.alstevens.org/2009/04/27/mondays-reads-2/ Mark C. Taylor in the NY Times argues that we should abolish the university as we know it by restructuring the curriculum, abolishing permanent departments, increasing collaboration among institutions, transforming the traditional dissertation, expanding the range of professional options for graduate students, imposing mandatory retirement and abolishing tenure.

Scott Walter amplifies the Taylor article and argues that it’s time to change the current reward system.

Elyssa Kroski’s comprehensive overview of libraries and mobile technologies.

Elaine Jarvik’s review of David Wiley’s comment that universities will be irrelevant by 2020.

Nick Anthis’s summary of Obama’s address to the National Academy of Sciences pledging a major new commitment to science.

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