We've talked about "soft skills" ever since I started in career education in 1996. The idea of mapping EWS and aligning program level outcomes, course curriculum, and extracurricular activities is surprisingly new to me. It creates a way to systematically improve our delivery of essential workforce skills that are so crucial to our students' success. This is especially important for the younger students, who don't seem to bring that with them from their life experiences so far.
