Work and the Purpose of College
This issue explores how a liberal education can help prepare students for meaningful careers. Nearly every article touches on the importance of global awareness and intercultural knowledge to ready students for embarking on careers and solving complex world problems such as climate change, the refugee crises, and the automation of jobs and other such consequences of ever-enhancing technology. Indeed, part of higher education’s mission is, as AAC&U’s Terrel Rhodes writes, “to prepare our graduates for lifelong learning and global citizenship."