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Book SynopsisHow 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 that already exist, while students are viewed as commodities instead of being educated to flourish throughout their lives. But rather than bemoan the diminishing legacy of liberal education, this new edition of Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners argues that the time has come to advance a pioneering purpose of college that guides the undergraduate experience from program requirements to teaching and learning. This purpose, Clifton Conrad and Laura Dunek write, is anchored in the premise that the world in which we live is one in which changeenvironmental, cu
Table of ContentsPreface
Part I. What Is the Purpose of a College Education?
Chapter 1. Contemporary Discourse on the Purpose of a College Education
Part II. Transformative Change: Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 2. A Rapidly Changing World Challenges Us to Rewrite Higher Education's Social Contract
Chapter 3. Heading toward Obsolescence: The Default Purpose of a College Education
Part III. Becoming an Inquiry-Driven Learner
Chapter 4. Portrait of an Inquiry-Driven Learner
Part IV. Fostering Inquiry-Driven Learners
Chapter 5. Ideas for Developing Inquiry-Driven Learners
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