In our culture, we believe that personal development is a matter of acquiring skills. The more skills you acquire, the more capable you are. We identify just about everything as a “skill”—basic motor skills, interpersonal skills, supervisory skills, negotiating skills, presentation skills, parenting skills, carpentry skills, sewing skills, culinary skills, social media skills. (Frankly, I…
When Dana Thompson was an Art History/Studio Art major, she admits she had no idea what she’d be “doing” with her double major. She certainly never considered she’d be managing training and development for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT). But that’s what she’s doing now, leading a department responsible for developing and delivering…
Twenty per cent of all college students major in Business. This not surprising tidbit is part of what Dr. William Sullivan had to tell us last week at the American Association of Colleges and Universities conference. Dr. Sullivan, of the Business Entrepreneurship and Liberal Learning (BELL) project, said if you add Business majors to…
