ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the question of why colleges should foster choice-making skills in their students. The term “choice making” is used in an effort to find a phrase that is as inclusive yet as semantically neutral as possible. Problem solving, decision making, cognition, critical thinking, logic, creativity, and the like all capture overlapping segments of applied thought. Yet each also seems to exclude, or at least deemphasize, some conscious or unconscious processes involved in making choices. Choice making may encompass all of them.
