Designing a university for the new millennium: David Helfand at TEDxWestVancouverED

Following 35 years on the faculty of Columbia University in New York, more than half of that time as Chair of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Dr. Helfand developed a deep understandin...

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Translator: Luiza Valente Reviewer: Queenie LeeUniversities are on the verge of an apocalyptic and terminal collapse.At least, that's what you'd have to believeif you went to a bookstore and looked under the education section at the titles.By my account in the last couple of years, there have been 39 bookswritten on the demise of the North American University.These attacks come from the political left and right;they come from inside the academy and outside the academy.I reviewed a couple of these books, a few months back,for the International science magazine, Nature,and I began my review as follows:universities today are fractious placespopulated by customers, formerly known as students,who play increasingly large amounts of, mostly, borrowed mo...