The document discusses barriers to implementing effective interdisciplinary education in higher education and proposes potential solutions. It identifies three main barriers: 1) basic departmental restrictions like time and funding constraints, 2) difficulties designing courses that fully integrate interdisciplinarity rather than just adding skills, and 3) challenges assessing interdisciplinary learning given its complex nature. The author proposes a grant writing unit that addresses these barriers by modifying an existing scientific writing course, fully redesigning the content and syllabus to incorporate interdisciplinarity, and using a rubric to better assess student learning and course outcomes.