• #97. How Colleges Creatively Guide Students into Purpose: Sociologist and Vice Provost Time Clydesdale

  • Apr 22 2022
  • Length: 47 mins
  • Podcast

#97. How Colleges Creatively Guide Students into Purpose: Sociologist and Vice Provost Time Clydesdale

  • Summary

  • Colleges have extraordinary responsibilities in the lives of their students. Sometimes overlooked is guiding students into purposeful careers.
    Tim Clydesdale is the author of The Purposeful Graduate. It's an evaluation of a large-scale program funded by the Lilly Foundation that paid for 88 colleges to create purpose programs for their students. In this episode, you'll learn the lessons from these programs, including  what worked and what didn't. 
    In this episode, you'll learn about:

    • Research on fostering purpose among college students
    • The power of narrative in exploring purpose
    • The longterm effect of college students finding purpose
    • The value of hands-on experience related to purpose
    • The best year in college for exploring matters of purpose

    Tim's Links
    Website
    Books
    The Purposeful Graduate
    The Twentysomething Soul
    The First Year Out
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    Want to connect? Email me at bradleywrightphd@gmail.com or connect on my LinkedIn page. 
    Want to start your own podcast? This podcast is edited and produced (and music too) by Josh Gilbert. Contact him at   joshgilbertmedia@gmail.com. He specializes in working with early podcasters.

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