Dr. Mark Taylor, Columbia University, Author of Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities
Dr. Mark Taylor, a professor at Columbia University, is the 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 like:
- 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 not-for-profit.
As a nation, we fail to make such necessary and sweeping changes, at our peril. Like other bubbles that have burst, this one will devastate our economy and global competitiveness.
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