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Over the past one hundred and fifty years, higher education in America has undergone fundamental changes. After a long emphasis on teaching, the idea of service to society re-oriented higher education in the mid 19th century, highlighted by the creation of the land-grant universities. Then, over the last century and particularly after the Second World War, the focus shifted toward research, and academic subspecialties proliferated. Now the university finds itself with a tri-partite mission and a sprawling accumulation of autonomous units — a multiversity — with no deeper forces of integration guiding its evolution. The splintered forms of inquiry we have inherited from the past do not always serve well a world in which complex problems are not neatly packaged according to academic disciplines.
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Miller, V., Scott, D.K. (2002). Filling in the Moat Around the Ivory Tower. In: Kenny, M.E., Simon, L.A.K., Kiley-Brabeck, K., Lerner, R.M. (eds) Learning to Serve. Outreach Scholarship, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0885-4_22
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