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"Work and the Good Life" Series: Working for the Common Good with Quentin Moore

"Work and the Good Life" Series: Working for the Common Good with Quentin Moore

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One way in which the University of St. Thomas is trying to realize its mission to "educate students...to work skillfully...to advance the common good" is with a new course called Work and the Good Life. Most of our students come here expecting that their college degrees will help them find jobs out of college. But as UST President Rob Vischer says, one reason that we have stellar employment outcomes is that we care about more than employment outcomes. We’re helping to form whole human beings, not just working people. And most of those people don’t just want paid employment; a Gallup study a few years ago found that 80+% of them want a purpose, but only around half of them would find it early in their careers. So this course is designed to enable students to think critically about their career choices so they can act wisely on the way to work that serves a worthwhile purpose in their lives and those of others.

In the first of a three-part speaker series, students heard from UST alum Quentin Moore about his quest for work and the good life.


  • Sponsored by The Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership.
    • Produced by Nicole Zwieg Daly, JD, EdD, CPPM.
    • Engineered by Tom Forliti.


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