Colleges have always been about getting students prepared for a career, but all too often, the education given at liberal-arts schools isn’t so useful for getting and maintaining a career. A small college in Maine is trying to change that by embedding the idea of “purposeful work”—broadly defined as work that both has personal meaning and societal relevance—into as many aspects of college life as possible.
This liberal arts school prepares students for the jobs of tomorrow
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