ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN JOHNSON
FOR GEN ZS, THE POSSIBILITIES ARE OFF THE CHARTS Consider this prediction: by age 50, members of Generation Z (that mostly likely includes you, reading this magazine) will have had on average 11 different careers, most of which don’t yet exist. Interesting. The idea of taking coursework to prepare oneself for a career (singular) seems to go out the window when faced with a fact like that. Well, yikes. Are you sweating? Are your parents sweating? Is it just me? But this is where the situation gets interesting. What would happen if colleges could offer coursework that crosses disciplines and perspectives, preparing students with the critical and creative thinking skills they need in order to thrive in any number of possible careers—and even to embrace that idea of “possibility”? Is that possible? By Chris Panella ’21
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