"When college is supposed to be all about getting a job, what difference might it make to suggest that it is also about discovering a vocation? A number of experiments in undergraduate education have renewed attention to meaning and purpose by pursuing that question in creative, practical ways. Even as pressures on higher education imperil society's confidence in the value ... Read moreof liberal learning, William M. Sullivan discloses possibilities of renewal at the heart of the college experience."-Dorothy C. Bass, coeditor of Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be "For everyone concerned about higher education's present shortcomings, there is now a brightly-illuminated pathway to a more promising future. William M. Sullivan's Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose gives us a well-documented guide to creating a college experience ideally suited for students' intellectual and personal development. The book is a must-read for educators and for all those who yearn for meaningful reforms in our country's higher education system."-William Damon, author of The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find their Calling in Life "At a time when higher education in the United States is under siege, William M. Sullivan puts forth a compelling vision of purposeful education. Then, drawing on an ambitious study of diverse campuses, he details how this vision is being impressively realized."-Howard Gardner, author of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed "Sullivan's argument is persuasive, and supported by numerous examples of the ways that the [Program for the Theological Exploration of Vocation] curricula envision-through the lens of vocation-a holistic approach to college education in the 21st century."
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