The Future of American Colleges May Lie, Literally, in Students' Hands
Lawmakers say colleges need to make students employable and to create jobs. and found themselves stuck: "Almost all the students said they didn't know how to cook," she told me, "and even the young, single adult employees in the group admitted they lacked both the know-how and motivation. My friend's big surprise came when the students in the group started talking about the solutions&mdash. Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up. others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary, expensive burden in an online world. What makes this story even more poignant is its setting: at sibling colleges founded by monasteries, where self-sufficiency and sustainability were once a central ethic, as outlined in the Rule of St. Benedict. They have emphasized that they teach students how to think, how to be engaged, world citizens&mdash. Bread, furniture, preserved food, ceramics, and other daily necessities were produced by monks, sisters, and students on the campuses. In that cultural and economic climate, liberal-arts colleges have been at pains to articulate their usefulness.
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