Definitely interdisciplinary majors help higher education a lot and we need mentoring people for that.

From what I have read, it appears that the system is improving. I think that given enough time and attention these problems will improve. What might you say is the major problem that we can look to helping our fellow professoriate with.

I really enjoyed reading about these issues. I hope that you find your way to what you want to be doing. As a brighter note, there is a possibility that the reason activism has lessened in Korea is that the quality of life for Koreans has improved greatly. You said yourself that there is no longer a dictator to rally against.

Interdisciplinary efforts emerged recently as a solution to sustainability issues in the architecture field, and it seems that sustainability ignited this trend in the other fields as well. I read some articles on engineering and social studies, they both remark sustainability as the main reason of interdisciplinary movement.

In my experience, there were not many tenure faculty members and many professors were professional architects running their own firm. But it can be because of architecture-specific condition which focuses a lot on professional development. Since there were not many full-time professors, their time commitment was much limited than here. On the other side, I heard that student’s independent learning ability is important in European education, so, European research tends to be student-led and professors usually don’t push or guide their students in detail while American professors tend to strongly lead and take care their students in detail. I am not sure about the income, one french internet site introduces that it is between 3000 ~ 6000 euros per month before tax.

I totally agree with interdisciplinary courses and disciplines being the future of higher education.

This is interesting! I wonder if universities did not previously have a necessity for interdisciplinarity. It seems like something that would have been an issue all along, but maybe there’s something particular to present days?

Great post! Personally speaking, I do not quite agree with that universities are be developed more and more commercialized as it will be somewhat apart from the major responsibility of universities.