as departments fragment, research and publication become more and more about less and less. Each academic becomes the trustee not of a branch of the sciences, but of limited knowledge that all too often is irrelevant for genuinely important problems.

The emphasis on narrow scholarship also encourages an educational system that has become a process of cloning.

The long process to make higher learning more agile, adaptive and imaginative

1. Restructure the curriculum,

Responsible teaching and scholarship must become cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural.

2. Abolish permanent departments

imagine a broad range of topics

Increase collaboration among institutions.

Transform the traditional dissertation.

develop analytic treatments in formats from hypertext and Web sites to films and video games

5. Expand the range of professional options for graduate students.

6. Impose mandatory retirement and abolish tenure.

Tenure should be replaced with seven-year contracts