Vocations for College Women
Title | Vocations for College Women PDF eBook |
Author | Bureau of Vocational Information (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Vocational guidance |
ISBN |
The Purposeful Graduate
Title | The Purposeful Graduate PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Clydesdale |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2015-05-06 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 022623648X |
We all know that higher education has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Historically a time of exploration and self-discovery, the college years have been narrowed toward an increasingly singular goal—career training—and college students these days forgo the big questions about who they are and how they can change the world and instead focus single-mindedly 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 doesn’t have to be this way: higher education can retain its higher cultural role, and students with a true sense of purpose—of personal, cultural, and intellectual value that cannot be measured by a wage—can 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 eighty-eight 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 examines—from internationally acclaimed research universities to small liberal arts colleges—is 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 education’s 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.
Vocations of College Women
Title | Vocations of College Women PDF eBook |
Author | Clara Jane Guy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Vocations for the Trained Woman
Title | Vocations for the Trained Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Agnes Frances Perkins |
Publisher | Boston, Women's educational and industrial union [c1910] |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Vocational guidance |
ISBN |
Vocations for the Trained Woman; Opportunities Other Than Teaching
Title | Vocations for the Trained Woman; Opportunities Other Than Teaching PDF eBook |
Author | Agnes Frances Perkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN |
Vocations Open to College Women
Title | Vocations Open to College Women PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
What are You Going to Do?
Title | What are You Going to Do? PDF eBook |
Author | Radcliffe College |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1928 |
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