Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners:: The Purpose of a College Education for the Twenty-First Century 2edTwo decades into the twenty first century, our nation's colleges and universities no longer embrace a clear and convincing definition of the purpose of a college education. Instead, most institutions have fallen prey to a default purpose in which college is essentially workforce preparation for jobs that already exist, while students are viewed as commodities instead of being educated to flourish throughout their lives. But rather than bemoan the