The university's answer to this structural barrier to timely graduation was to begin to modularize its curriculum, drawing on principles developed by Kim Clark and his academic colleagues before his move to Rexburg.33 Modularity is the principle that has allowed the computer industry, among others, to provide ever-higher-performing and more customizable products to users at ever lower costs. The various components of the computer—memory chips, disk drives, software, printers, and so on—are created as modules. Each is a unique but integrated component of the larger system. Specialists focus on
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