Commentary: Higher education has misstepped by focusing on wallets, not hearts and minds

We see you voting with your feet. You’re abandoning work that doesn’t make you happy, searching for purpose in your days, for those things in life that bear joy and meaning.

We in education want that for you, too.

But we haven’t exactly made that clear. For decades, U.S. colleges and universities argued for education by pointing largely to employment statistics. The essential message: “Get a degree, and you’ll never want