‘What Is College For?,’ Chapter 5: Aligning Knowledge and Professional Purpose

By Vincent DeFrancesco. William Sullivan, a senior scholar for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, writes in Chapter 5 of What Is College For? that the public purposes of professional education were lost as professions migrated toward the academy and away from the apprenticeship training model. The move separated practical and normative considerations of the role and duty of professionals from the cognitive and academic. More...