i would love to see some universities without any departments at all. Students could design their own courses of study. People could be hired and promoted by adhock committees with different kinds of people. This is a clear way, i think, that you snap up a bunch of really great people who are going to change the world. But i'm never going to be a university administrator so this might not ever happen,. Andrew goldstein says in your blog describing the move to johns hopkins, make reference to two seminars entitled physics of democracy - one called "Democracy" and another titled "The Power Of Democracy"
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