Chris Higgins is Professor and Chair in the Department of Formative Education in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College where he co-directs the BA program in Transformative Educational Studies and the Ph.D. program in Formative Education. A philosopher of education, he has written on the existential dimensions of teaching and learning, the idea of education as a public good; humanism and liberal learning; imagination and aesthetic education; practice and vocational formation, and the experimental tradition in higher education. He is the author of two books, The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional Practice (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education (MIT Press, 2024).

PDF of Chris' book Undeclared: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5780/UndeclaredA-Philosophy-of-Formative-Higher

Amazon link to purchase physical copy: https://a.co/d/buF1N3I

Romance and Reality of Vocation: https://socialconcerns.nd.edu/research/virtues/magazine-home-fall-2025/the-romance-and-reality-of-vocational-fit/

Thoreau College: www.thoreaucollege.org

Driftless Folk School: www.driftlessfolkschool.org