Stanford students design colleges for 22nd century

Students at Stanford are tackling the question of what the college experience will look like in the 22nd century. 

As part of a thought experiment in 2013, students from the Institute of Design at Stanford came up with four models for the colleges of the future that are much different from the ones we see today.    

One model involves increasing the time frame of a traditional undergraduate education from four years to six years and allowing students to use the six years of education in any way they like — that is, they can attend school for four years, leave to work, then return for their final two years at any point in time. Another idea is to "replace majors with 'missions,'" in which a student would pick an issue they want to solve, such as world hunger, and create a class schedule that will help him meet that goal. 

Read about more ideas at Vox.

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