ABSTRACT

This chapter provides an academy of researchers, a faculty of highly trained specialists without concern for how the depth of understanding applies between and among other disciplines. The challenge of university leaders is to foster an organizational climate that values breadth, not just depth. The challenge to the leadership of the universities is, therefore, to break down the silos, to find the richness of inquiry matched by quality classroom teaching that collectively builds a mosaic of breadth and depth so as not to leave students responsible for breadth. The challenge is to build breadth as well as depth, to get a common, shared set of values that build a community rather than a disparate group of houses. Thus, a university, if university administrators dare draw an analogy, is a large community made up of small households, each often having a separate language, a separate set of goals and aspirations, and a separate sense of identity.