The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk To Students About Vocation,Used

The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk To Students About Vocation,Used

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We all know that higher education has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Historically a time of exploration and selfdiscovery, the college years have been narrowed toward an increasingly singular goalcareer trainingand college students these days forgo the big questions about who they are and how they can change the world and instead focus singlemindedly on their economic survival. In The Purposeful Graduate, Tim Clydesdale elucidates just what a tremendous loss this is, for our youth, our universities, and our future as a society. At the same time, he shows that it doesnt have to be this way: higher education can retain its higher cultural role, and students with a true sense of purposeof personal, cultural, and intellectual value that cannot be measured by a wagecan be streaming out of every one of its institutions.The key, he argues, is simple: direct, systematic, and creative programs that engage undergraduates on the question of purpose. Backing up his argument with rich data from a Lilly Endowment grant that funded such programs on eightyeight different campuses, he shows that thoughtful engagement of the notion of vocational calling by students, faculty, and staff can bring rich rewards for all those involved: greater intellectual development, more robust community involvement, and a more proactive approach to lifelong goals. Nearly every institution he examinesfrom internationally acclaimed research universities to small liberal arts collegesis a success story, each designing and implementing its own program, that provides students with deep resources that help them to launch flourishing lives.Flying in the face of the pessimistic forecast of higher educations emaciated future, Clydesdale offers a profoundly rich alternative, one that can be achieved if we simply muster the courage to talk with students about who they are and what they are meant to do.

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