These are the very intellectual skills and personal attributes that provide young adults with the most important foundation for being able to recognize and manage the unavoidable changes and complexities ahead of them. Their development in the college years prepares them for the far more challenging forms of intellectual tenacity required of them after graduation: whether it is to write well-argued reports, documents, and briefs in their future professional lives; to critically read and evaluate the worth of a referendum, a court decision, medical documents, wills, investigative journalism, or
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