Undergraduate Consortium

In a variety of ways, students today are expressing the desire to have what they do reflect who they are. Drawing on this desire, in this Pod we will explored how we might take questions and concepts in business curricula and help make students make more of these questions. Highlighting the quest for purpose—and integrating questions of meaning—can help students connect the immediate knowledge and skills they are gaining with a broad understanding of their world and, crucially, build their capacity to discover direction and meaning for their own learning and future lives. Bringing business and liberal arts together offers distinctive opportunities to increase self-awareness and connect the development of their personal capacities to the larger questions of what capacities are worth developing—and ultimately the question of what kind of life is worth living.

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This convening and its theme were in part an outcome of an ongoing collaboration, supported by the Teagle Foundation, between Franklin & Marshall, Bucknell University, and the University of Pennsylvania—aimed at exploring how liberal arts content, skills, and pedagogies can illuminate the study of business and commerce.