The Risk - and Value - of College Transparency

Campus Technology: As a product of a liberal arts education, it's hard for me to relate to the vocational attitude toward higher ed that seems to be pervasive these days: the assumption that a college degree should lead to a quantifiable result in terms of salary and success in the workplace. Or even that the topics studied should be linked to specific "job skills." The idealist in me thinks that college should rather be about personal growth, about developing the ability to take on future challenges regardless of course of study. An archeology major, for example, could end up landing a job as a product manager at Google (as one of my friends did).

Read article