ABSTRACT
Along with other segments of the social structure, including those of primary and secondary education, the university system faces challenges of a fundamental nature. These have been described unambiguously by Mark C. Taylor, of Columbia University, in an article published by The New York Times. As Taylor aptly points out, the university model of mass production has led to separation between the goals to be attained and the effort invested in doing so. In the early 1950s Llewelyn M. K. Boelter, dean at UCLA Engineering who had set up engineering education from scratch at the University of California in Los Angeles, adopted precisely the structure Taylor suggests but within the engineering curriculum. A few years ago Columbia University had put up its Business School for name-plating for $50 million. The Center for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE) an Indianapolis-based organization.
