Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners: The Purpose of a College Education for the Twenty-First Century

by Conrad Clifton, Clifton Conrad, Laura Dunek

How can colleges develop learners who pursue innovative ideas that enable them to flourish and contribute in a rapidly changing world?

Two decades into the twenty-first century, our nation's colleges and universities no longer embrace a clear and convincing definition of the purpose of a college education. Instead, most institutions have fallen prey to a default purpose in which college is essentially workforce preparation for jobs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421438488
• ISBN13: 9781421438481
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.7"