• Purpose & Character in Higher Education with Nathan Hatch, Robert Franklin, Jr., and Clayton Spencer
  “Virtues & Vocations” Forum, Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
• Education, Meaningful Work & the COVID-19 Unemployment Challenge
  New World of Work, Learnit
• Finding Purpose
  The Mary Christie Quarterly
• Purposeful Work Case Study in “Uncharted Territory: A Guide to Reimagining Higher Education”
  Stanford 2025 Project, Stanford d.school
• The college-career sequence in reverse
  WGBH, On Campus Radio
• The thing that turns a liberal arts education into a meaningful job
  Quartz
• How one small college helps its students find “purposeful work”
  Education Dive
• Purpose as Well as Paycheck
  Inside Higher Ed
• What’s the Purpose of College?
  Forbes
• Bates-Gallup Study Finds “Purpose Gap”
  Bates News (PDF of report)
• Bates College, Gallup report: Grads want ‘purposeful’ work
  Lewiston Sun Journal
• How Colleges Help Students Find Purpose in Their Work
  The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Washington Post Live – Transformers: Education 360°
  President Clayton Spencer joined former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and now U.S. Rep. Donna Shalala, D-Fla., and Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick, president of Howard University, for a discussion about innovation in education.
• Liberal arts watch: Colleges appeal to students with ‘purposeful work’
  The Christian Science Monitor
• One college finally designed a liberal arts education fit for the future of work
  Quartz
• At Bates College, New Focus On ‘Purposeful Work’
  WGBH
  
• Bates College prepares students for work that fits their skills and interests
  Mainebiz
• Purposeful Work on Maine Public Radio’s Maine Calling
  A live, interactive radio broadcast from the Edmund S. Muskie Archives at Bates College

Additional Purposeful Work Coverage

• Speech by President Clayton Spencer at the 187th Convocation of Bishop’s University
• When legal nonprofit needs French language interpreters, Bates students step in
  French and francophone studies majors volunteer to interpret during asylum seekers’ meetings with their potential lawyers, in a partnership that has only grown.
• A tuna tournament helps Michaela Pinette ’19 get in tune with purposeful work
  Michaela Pinette ’19 wasn’t expecting a summer of sifting through bloody tuna parts for science, nor enjoying it so much. That’s the beauty of Purposeful Work.
• In labs, startups, and city streets, Bates students learn the meaning of their own work
  In museums, labs, and cities; in San Francisco, Shenzhen, and Lewiston, Bates-funded summer experiences help students explore their interests and discover what’s purposeful to them.
• Advising Grads to ‘Follow Your Passion’ is Bunk. Here’s Why
• Q&A: Students Click with Digital Marketing Consultant Ashley Hart ’91 in her Practitioner-Taught Course
• Q&A: Bates psychologist Rebecca Fraser-Thill on drawing a blueprint for your future
• Purposeful Work Unplugged: U.S. Sen. Susan Collins
• Bates Magazine cover feature on Purposeful Work.
• Some Thoughts on Work: Remarks at Convocation 2013 by President Clayton Spencer