Abstract
The accelerating expansion of knowledge during the past several decades and the increasing growth in complexity in our society have aggravated both environmental and university problems. Universities must, through mutli‐disciplinary teaching, find ways to focus specialized faculty talent on environmental problems. At Santa Barbara, for example, a program is now flourishing in which faculty contribute to teaching environmental courses but where they remain rooted in their home departments. The departments (discipline oriented) are paid for their contributions to new courses (oriented toward many disciplines). Through such administrative arrangements existing strengths of university organizations are retained as new attention is brought to bear on complex social issues. Programs in environmental studies may therefore lead the way toward needed university reform as they guide students toward better understanding of the complexities of the environment.
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