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Career Preparation for the New Millenium
Not so long ago, a reasonable high school student might well have concluded that you don’t need a college education anymore – some skill and ingenuity at the computer keyboard, and you could make millions before your 25th birthday.
Before that, it was the MBA, and before that, the law degree – and, intermittently, “get an engineering degree!” pops up out of the cultural soup (or your dad’s mouth) as the Fountain of Perpetual Prosperity.
Whatever else the dot-com debacle did, it proved, yet again, that there is not and never will be a set of credentials or skills that will guarantee you smooth professional sailing for life. The only thing certain is that things will change – and change again.
The job market's ever-accelerating rate of technological, political, social and economic change calls for long-rather than short-term thinking. Today’s “hot” skill will almost certainly be tomorrow’s relic. To thrive throughout the twists and turns of the global economy, you need a set of broad-based abilities that will enable you to take advantage of a variety of professional challenges. A liberal arts education, like that offered at America’s Lutheran colleges, is far from impractical: it helps students develop analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, plus leadership and teamwork, that will last a lifetime.
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| W r i t i n g S k i l l s |
| Lutheran College Graduates |
78% |
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| Public University Graduates |
65% |
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| S p e a k i n g E f f e c t i v e l y |
| Lutheran College Graduates |
72% |
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| Public University Graduates |
66% |
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| T e a m w o r k S k i l l s |
| Lutheran College Graduates |
70% |
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| 53% |
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| L e a d e r s h i p |
| Lutheran College Graduates |
66% |
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| 50% |
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What is a Liberal Arts Education? »
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