The post doc that works at a university today could work at a research institution tomorrow in an otherwise-identical job. Accreditation could be performed for

The post doc that works at a university today could work at a research institution tomorrow in an otherwise-identical job. Accreditation could be performed for research institutions just as it is for university departments today -- PhD candidates could work in research institutions just as well as they do in university departments. The few classes they take are all within the department that they're researching in anyway, and are also all separate from classes that undergrads take -- so moving that education out of the university and in to the research institute seems fine too. That's not to say that instituting my plan would be easy. I did call it 'radical', after all