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Reinvention is consistently missing one exceptionally important goal for higher academic education. Yes, directing students for success and good careers is crucial. Still, without serious focus upon students intellectual, spiritual (religion, not necessarily withstanding, of course) and emotional evolution (aka development, but more)–even transformation through the power of knowledge as facts, but more, much more, as an inroad to enlightenment, deeper understanding, and without a doubt, wisdom. Does all of this sound to “romantic” or “new agey”? Just as teaching our students to understand the intrinsic importance of responsibility along with the concrete reality of good jobs/careers, we (educators and administrators) can still go too far toward robotics and other forms of mechanical and electronic technologies that do not help to educe (educate for) self-respect, self-worth, and self determination (cf. Freedom of Speech). Believing in one’s self is crucial toward helping one create and recreate him- or herself for the purpose of being that particular person with those particular skills, talents and goals. Of course, likewise, we might go to far into the direction of a romance with abstract values of art, science and creative expression. Life on Earth and in the world that humans continue to create and destroy over and over again, requires balance for both practical gains and still, logical ( = D ) expressiveness, intuitive creativity and always, focused, yet open-minds that continue to develop professionally, evolve consciously and conscientiously and while we explore what has been in art, business, science, poetry, and math etc., we feel compelled to explore what is becoming in art, business, science, poetry, and math etc. What in the world is our world up to in life, death, war, medicine, culture and so on? We want to help our students realize that they are and that they most certainly can be involved in the invention and reinvention of our human-made world along with enjoying, working with, and being in amazing awe of the life and processes of order and re-order that seems to always be and always becoming again: Nature. Just as Walt Whitman wrote about the learn’d astronomy, it is one way to learn about the stars in the lecture room, and still, never forget how to just stand in the dark while we gaze at the little lights in the night that, at least for some, are not there! See the light. We see the Light and earn our living in the laboratories of life. We see the Light and explore, reveal, unveil and still stand in awe of the mystery of lights, light years, and the stars. From facts to the truth in fiction (!) we become more curious, more knowledgeable and much more insightful about making a good living and being happy and healthy because we love what we are doing for a living! That is the missing piece, as I cannot see it yet, in our reinvention efforts, and I am seriously and deeply concerned that to create good little worker bees is a far cry from co-creating with our students toward what they want to do for the rest of their own lives in hope, faith and if love is too mushy, then let’s practice, at least, an integrally interwoven complement of, for example, being able to earn a successful living (whatever that may mean to anyone) and to become a mensch (Yiddish for a real person–someone who cares about other people, life and the beauty “To me the meanest flower that blows can give/Thoughts that do often lie to deep for tears” (William Wordsworth). Truly, Genuinely and Respectfully, Ilene Sandman (HWC)