Suppose you had an opportunity to design a new sort of university education from scratch. What do students want? What does society need?
The Bachelor of Knowledge Integration was developed in response to the Waterloo Unlimited high school enrichment program, when students asked, "If we wanted to study more of this, what university program would we enroll in?"
Ed Jernigan, founding Director of what began as the Centre for Knowledge Integration, and first Chair of what is now the Department of Knowledge Integration, shares the story of how KI came to be.