In the new spirit of interdisciplinary research I start with Albert Einstein's famous equation.
Madness equals continuing to do the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.
Thirty-five years ago, we set as our goal making UB a leading university. Today we are no closer to that goal than we were 35 years ago. Tom Headrick should, therefore, be praised for raising some fundamental questions. For example, we all know that academic bureaucracy has been growing at an exponential rate both in our and other universities. Yet, initially, there was opposition to Tom's proposal to reduce academic bureaucracy by combining three faculties into one arts and sciences faculty.