In recent years, interdisciplinarity has become one of the central themes in higher education and research policy. Funding ...

Lennard J. Davis’s provocative “A Grand Unified Theory of Interdisciplinarity” (The Chronicle Review, June 8) cynically disparages the economic/political use of the concept of interdisciplinarity by ...

Jerry A. Jacobs hopes to bring clarity to the troubled discourses and aspirations of interdisciplines and disciplines by puncturing the balloon of hype (“Interdisciplinary Hype,” The Chronicle Review, ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. First, the Triumphs. My (and my field’s) love of interdisciplinarity has opened up a number of ...

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Being interdisciplinary—combining two different fields and doing some interesting research—is very hot right now. But it's not always easy to measure. Recently, scientists have begun trying to ...

Interdisciplinarity is a buzzword in academic research and education, but few universities are able to pay more than lip service to this concept. Indeed, the very nature of academia resists ...

Interdisciplinarity has an ambitious goal: tackling real-world, complex problems. This is why higher education institutions are incorporating it into their strategic thinking, and why more students ...

The benefits of such interdisciplinarity are substantial. By institutionalizing connections between different epistemologies, the core of the liberal arts education is strengthened. While ...

At the level of institutional strategy, interdisciplinary research looks like a positive and productive exchange. At the personal level, where it is enmeshed with career progress, disciplinary ...