The Chronicle of Higher Education

A President Looks Back 500 Years and Finds His Calling

By WILLIAM V. FRAME

Having recently returned from a 10-year stint in the corporate world to my original home in the academy, I have stumbled onto an idea of great utility -- both to rationalize my own tortuous career path and to guide the curricular and cultural reforms needed to serve our college's students. The idea is vocation.

As the president of Augsburg College,...

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