5 mindsets students need to thrive in the future of work

The CEO of the Aspen Institute argues that a traditional college degree can help students prepare for the labor market of tomorrow.

In the last decade, a raucous chorus of critics has found common cause taking down the once hallowed American institution of college. Some claim that it’s degenerated into a left-wing brainwashing factory, a right-wing privilege machine, or a cushy jobs program for faculty and staff. Others lament alleged patterns of coddling fragility, conditioning conformity, or locking young people into decades of indebtedness. And then there are the denunciations—heightened since October 7th—that truth, reason, facts, impartiality, and civil dialogue are relics of a bygone time.