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What happened to higher education's place in helping people live a meaningful life? The neoliberal university's emphasis on economic frameworks for success for one thing. But we are not serving our students when we focus on money. www.chronicle.com/article/its-...

Colleges Are Selling Themselves as Wage-Boosters. They Have Something Better to Offer.www.chronicle.com Many workers care more about finding purpose in their jobs than they do about pay. Why did colleges stop emphasizing their role in the search for meaning?

"Disconnected from meaning, achievement is a particularly frantic, hellish hamster wheel. And many of those students base their sense of “achievement” on narrow goals defined by their parents, their communities, and social media, where feelings of success or failure ride on an edge."