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How College Kills Purpose, and How to Get It Back

College

Indecisive liberal arts majors may be our future’s best hope. (Okay, I was one of those so maybe I am a bit biased.) But I can still hear the job-obsessed parents of eager, prospective college students choking on their morning coffee and feel the Engineering majors snickering. After a decade working in public higher education … Read more

How to Change the World in 2016

Change the world.

How have you changed the world today? If your response is silence, a slight shrug, or an “I don’t know!” you are like me and the thousands of people, young and old, I have asked this question to. My favorite response to this quintessential human question came from a college student during a keynote who was sitting in the … Read more

3 Powerful Lessons from 2015

Imagine if at the beginning of each year we envisioned the next 365 days with the same emotional vigor we reserve for the critical reflection on the year gone by? “There’s always next year,” I hear people say. What about the one year that statement rings untrue? See, the New Year, while great to celebrate the hope of newness, typically … Read more