Presence

From the YU Commentator:

In an effort to reverse trends of disconnect between secular and rabbinic faculty, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) Rosh Kollel Hershel Schachter and Yeshiva College (YC) Dean David Srolovitz met to discuss issues surrounding YC and its curriculum. The two influential Wilf Campus personalities joined members of The Commentator on Thursday, August 31 in the dean's office for an hour-long conversation.

Lots of interesting tidbits here, such as R. Schachter's comments about treating Yu like a trade school, a possible pre-semicha track offered as a college major and R. Schachter's comments on those who rush through YU:

They are just fooling themselves in to thinking that they are accomplishing something. They are not.

My opinion, for what it is worth, is that YU is in a unique position to offer an integrated curriculum that could, possibly, produce a new kind of orthodox Jew; post-modern orthodox, if you will. I could see this as working in that direction, or, quite possibly, not. The Rav was created by a new combination of circumstances: the talmudic scholar who also went to university. If we're going to find the next Rav (not just those who can teach in the same manner as he taught, but those who can take our current condition, which has changed, and provide for it a context within the Jewish tradition), this is where he would be found.