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“…we must fundamentally reinvent our institutions. We must become more agile, more responsive, less insular, and less bureaucratic. In so doing, we will save ourselves from slouching into irrelevance.

To accomplish the wholesale change that is needed for our students, our nation, and our world, universities must break out of the silo structures – of departments and budgets and mind sets – that have calcified over time.”  – Gordon Gee (President of Ohio State University)

A version of this essay was given as the keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education in February.