ABSTRACT
In the current societal context, there is pressure upon universities to engage in “workforce development,” whereby students are trained for specific positions in the marketplace. Moreover, the public increasingly perceives that a college education is a private good that benefits individual
students, rather than a public good that benefits communities and society at large. Hence, engaging in human development for the sake of developing the human intellect is not valued as it once was. Instead, learning ought to serve a discrete, economic purpose, as distinguished from the purpose of bettering the human condition-both personally for the college learner and publicly for the communities that learners will serve over the course of their lifetimes.
