A new trade and liberal arts school: “College of St. Joseph the Worker”
My understanding of this new college is that it&#x27;s aimed at solving the perceived problem of four-year Catholic liberal arts schools, namely that they graduate a lot of young adults with the same (or roughly the same) degrees, but without an obvious career path laid out for them.<p>So, to begin with, high school graduates who go to these schools were predisposed to go to a Catholic liberal arts college.  If the College in the article is successful in its mission, these folks will graduate with the degree they wanted, in the surroundings&#x2F;environment they wanted, but also with solid career possibilities.<p>People have been swearing up and down for over a decade that the US graduates far more people with bachelors degrees than we &quot;need&quot;, and that more parents[0] should be encouraging their kids to learn a trade.  This new college is a response to that.<p>[0] it&#x27;s seldom &quot;us&quot;; the problem seems to be isolated, in many peoples&#x27; minds, to other peoples&#x27; kids, and they don&#x27;t want their own kids to be the ones who learn a trade.