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There are reasons that departments exist, and that they are primary. For better or worse, you trade off interdisciplinary studies (and organizational flexibili
by mathattack 13y ago
There are reasons that departments exist, and that they are primary. For better or worse, you trade off interdisciplinary studies (and organizational flexibility) when you have a tenure driven department system. My impression is that some schools (MIT & Stanford?) seem to get it right, but most don't. Of course getting interdisciplinary right could just be the job of the real world.
- pfortuny 13y agoOh, certainly, I am not the one to disagree on then necessity of departments. The problem is that Rectors seem to push for "interdisciplinarity" but without any reward for it in any way. So, it is just grandiloquent speech as far as it goes on like this.