University Administration

We have already discussed the administration of teaching programs,

The importance of properly evaluating interdisciplinary research and teaching in decisions about hiring, pay, tenure, and promotion, deserves emphasis. Interdisciplinarity will only prosper in a university if it is appropriately rewarded. The Association for Interdisciplinary Studies has developed detailed guidelines for promotion and tenure.

Didier Wernli and Frédéric Darbellay, "Interdisciplinarity and the 21st century research-intensive university" (November 2016), a League of European Research Universities Position Paper, provides numerous recommendations for interdisciplinary administration.

Lyall, Catherine; Bruce, Ann; Tait, Joyce, Meagher, Laura. Interdisciplinary Research Journeys, Huntingdon, GBR: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2011, suggest several criteria by which a university might evaluate its support for interdisciplinarity, and then several strategies it might pursue.

Klein, Julie Thompson, Creating Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures: A Model for Strength and Sustainability. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Jossey-Bass, 2009, provides an extensive list of institutional barriers to interdisciplinarity and strategies to alleviate these.

See also:

L. Michelle Bennett and Howard Gadlin, "Supporting interdisciplinary collaboration: The role of the institution," in Michael O’Rourke et al, Enhancing Communication and Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research, Sage, 2013, 356-84.

Karri A Holley “Interdisciplinary Strategies as Transformative Change in Higher Education” Innovations in Higher Education,34: 331-44 (2009) (see also her Understanding Interdisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education, ASHE Higher Education Report, Volume 35, Number 2)

Dan Stokols and colleagues had a blog post for i2S in February 2019 that described critical institutional supports for team science.