End the university as we know it?

Mark Taylor has a provocative Op-Ed piece up at the NYTimes. I have to admit to agreeing with a few of his recommendations:

• 1. Restructure the curriculum, beginning with graduate programs and proceeding as quickly as possible to undergraduate programs. The division-of-labor model of separate departments is obsolete and must be replaced with a curriculum structured like a web or complex adaptive network. Responsible teaching and scholarship must become cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural.
• 2. Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs. These constantly evolving programs would have sunset clauses, and every seven years each one should be evaluated and either abolished, continued or significantly changed.
• 3. Increase collaboration among institutions. </ul>

  I've made my own recommendations for theological education, in the form of a matrix of reflective practice in theological education, with the assumption that the more reflective the better, for theological education. (The matrix was recently included in a piece I published with the Lexington Seminar.)