ABSTRACT
Universities face a difficult task in responding to societal problems. Information growth coupled with the rising tide of professionalism gives the individual professor personal identity while precluding any cross-discipline understanding of the broad problems of society. We have become an academy of researchers, not scholars, a faculty of highly trained specialists without concern for how the depth of our understanding applies between and among other disciplines. The challenge of university leaders is to foster an organizational climate that values breadth, not just depth.
