A Great Commission education

Editor’s note: This is a reprinted column from Jack Purcell’s “On the Journey” archives. It originally appeared in The Star in 2013.

I was thinking recently about some of my experiences in higher education. Most of those years I was the dean of students/vice president for student affairs (known by some as wildlife management).

During those years I learned a rather perplexing fact about college students. Seemingly unrelated to intelligence or learning ability, a very large percentage of college students don’t attend college to get an education; they go to get a degree.