“Millennials” on Our Minds…
Beloit College has rolled out its annual “Mindset List” for the Class of 2014, which originated in 1998 as “a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation.” This amusing but also telling list might whet your appetite for deeper explorations regarding this generation of students:
- Books by upcoming speaker at GSU, Neil Howe, and his co-author, William Strauss: Millennials go to College, Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, and Millennials and the Pop Culture
- Connecting to the Net.Generation: What Higher Education Professionals Need to Know about Today’s Students by Reynol Junco
- Teaching Generation M: A Handbook for Librarians and Educators by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Robert J. Lackie
- “A Five-Dimensional Model for Educating the Net Generation” by Ronald Noel Beyers
- “Boomers and Millennials have Much in Common” by Marilyn S. Wesner and Tammy Miller
- “Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next” by the Pew Research Center [for a snapshot, view this PBS NewsHour piece on this report]