College provides students an integral asset: leadership skills

Liberal arts students sometimes clash with buttoned-up businesses. A few leaders in the corporate world went back to campus to fill that gap.

By Mark Gordon
| 8:56 a.m. July 23, 2021
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Leadership

Most colleges would scoff at the idea of leadership as a major.

The seemingly understandable reasons for that are twofold. For one, leadership can be an abstract concept and not as concrete as say, math, or analyzing English literature. The second reason, of course, is leadership, at least in conventional wisdom, comes from experienced and learned people — not teens who can’t even legally buy a beer.