A tale of two speeds: challenges for research universities.
This manuscript represents a presentation to the Annual Conference of the Association of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Neurobiology Chairpersons. The author is responding to the question, "How can university administrations nurture both interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration and cooperation?" The presentation makes the point that university administrators must be cognizant of the changing dynamics of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration and cooperation due to the speed of the Internet and the speed of travel today. Those institutional leaders, and their universities, that recognize that the world has become flat will flourish, while those locked in a silo mentality will perish.
Feng
Da Hsuan
DH
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083, USA. fengd@utdallas.edu
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