Our students want to save the planet. They join Renssalaer with a nascent perspective on the global challenges before us, the global risks we were exposed to as a people and a planet, and the power of our global connectivity. Our goal at the university is to develop those perspectives more fully and with benefit of a broad academic community. Following this generation defining passion, however, is not at the exclusion of a student’s goals of finding a job and becoming successful. Once disparate, these goals are increasingly aligned and intertwined.