Stories change lives; they shape how we think and how we see the world.

The capacities to think crit-ically, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems have always been markers of college-educated people; all of these depend on skills of reflection. The results of a 2021 national survey of employers by the Association of American Colleges and Universities found that critical thinking and “encouraging students to think for themselves

Course learning becomes not just something to be learned, repeated in a test, but can be applied to our experiences, both profession-ally and personally.