What does a college degree mean?

Here's an interesting article that is relevant to all of us in college: "College is worth it if you have these six experiences."

• "[Creating more satisfied student outcomes] starts with changing what we believe. If we believe a college degree is an automatic ticket to a better career and life, we fail. Students, parents, higher education staff and faculty, and employers need to work hard to ensure we are collectively making the most of it. If we believe the only measure of success is salary, we fail. There is so much more value to college than what we are systematically measuring now. We ought to pay careful attention to these less traditional measures and the things that correlate with them" (Busteed).

And here is another one which highlights that importance of writing and speaking skills, from The Washington Post: "Should higher education aim to secure students a paycheck, fulfillment … or both?"

• "“What is the earthly use of a liberal [arts] education?” [journalist Fareed Zakaria] asks, and he supplies a very good answer: It teaches students to write. By teaching them to write, it teaches them to think. He observes that “writing forces you to make choices and brings clarity and order to your ideas,” and notes that no less a titan than Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos (who owns The Washington Post) forces his senior managers to write six-page, narrative memos for every meeting. No jargon. No bullet points. Just clear thinking — a nonpareil workplace virtue" (Auoun).