In this article, Rosalyn W. Berne, the Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia, welcomes us into a conversation about how students are thinking about their futures as engineers and the decisions they will make as they enter the job market. Read more.

In this article, Zena Hitz, Tutor at St. John’s College and founder and president of the Catherine Project, distinguishes between two kinds of work, hollow work and real work, aimed at a human good. Read more.

In this article, Paul Balschko, Assistant Teaching Professor and Founding Director of the Sheedy Family Program in Economy, Enterprise, and Society, upends the cultures of achievementism and productivity, both of which conspire to empty both work and education of meaning. He asks and attempts to answer the question: “What Does Leisure Look Like Today?” Read more.

In this essay, Michelle Weise, Chief Impact Officer of The Kern Family Foundation and co-host of “A Life Worth Working,” muses on a new "understanding of calling: one that embraces the messiness, imperfection, and circuitous routes through which people forge meaningful lives." These are the spaghetti pathways, and they appear to define our working lives today. Read more about finding purpose in these circuitous and slippery journeys.

In her welcome letter to the latest issue of Virtues & Vocations: Higher Education for Human Flourishing, Suzanne Shanahan invites us into a conversation about the meanings of work.