The campus in the classical model, a well defined nucleus, and the faculty and students were tightly coupled neutrons. Students and faculty felt a lot of loyalty to the institution, and only had to be local experts. Today, we have multiple campuses, more a cloudlike array. Faculty are loosely bound. Their loyalty is to their discipline and their subfield, they have to be world experts.
Students are array-like, as well.
One way is to deliver course content to a larger audience, through distance learning and other means. Various new tools for education, including simulation and asynchronous learning. Notes You'll need a Real Audio Player to listen to President Brody's talk. RealAudio and RealVideo files courtesy of the Whiting School of Engineering Instructional Television Facility and the Research and Instructional Technologies Multimedia Development Center .