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• n  a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers

• The multiversity proved all but unmanageable, though for years Kerr succeeded in mediating the divergent demands of students, faculty and California's conservative Regents.
• Yet, as students complain of the "alienation" of the multiversity, the cluster idea is likely to grow.
• The multiversity cannot go back: "Knowledge is wanted, even demanded, by more people than ever before.