http://www.hastac.org/files/imagecache/homepage_50/pictures/picture-79-873560aec16bee4b69793f2fa0fbd715.jpgBy Cathy Davidson. What if we could start all over again and design higher education from scratch?  What would a university look like if there were no legacies from medieval knowledge traditions, Enlightenment epistemologies or taxonomies, or Industrial Age requirements, regulations, departments, majors, minors, distribution requirements, professional schools, or standardized assessment metrics?  Below the photo, you'll find a template and a series of open-ended questions to get us started on imagining the university from scratch. 
I've also created an evolving public Google Doc where anyone can add comments:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o8uDpgQp2PgmbjMvrYWMUQZcEUtU57Ei7TbCT8EOiKQ/edit      This is just the beginning! More...