Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read
“Many institutional factors will also need to be addressed — how to fund interdisciplinary efforts; the challenge of jargon as a linguistic barrier to collaboration; career incentives at odds with integrative approaches; problems with peer-review publications; to name a few.”
I have also thought about interdisciplinary efforts might be encouraged starting at the undergraduate level. For example, cooperating professors in different departments, each of whom requires a course paper as part of the final grade, could agree to give some extra credit for a joint paper by a pair of students, one from each course.
Of course, some schools have experimented with a problem-oriented departmental structure rather than discipline-oriented.