For the past ten years, Beloit College has produced the College Mindset List, which is an effort to identify the worldview of the entering freshman class. This year’s freshmen, the class of 2011, were generally born in 1989, and thus have very different life experiences, insights, and worldviews than you or I. The list of seventy items is jointly produced by Tom McBride, Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities, and Ron Nief, Beloit’s Director of Public Affairs. The list indicates, for example, that for most students starting college this fall, rap music has always been mainstream, Illinois has been trying to ban smoking since the year they were born, and stadiums and rock tours have always had corporate names. The list is interesting, and also pretty entertaining. But, be warned, it will make you feel old.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The Mindset of the Class of 2011
For the past ten years, Beloit College has produced the College Mindset List, which is an effort to identify the worldview of the entering freshman class. This year’s freshmen, the class of 2011, were generally born in 1989, and thus have very different life experiences, insights, and worldviews than you or I. The list of seventy items is jointly produced by Tom McBride, Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities, and Ron Nief, Beloit’s Director of Public Affairs. The list indicates, for example, that for most students starting college this fall, rap music has always been mainstream, Illinois has been trying to ban smoking since the year they were born, and stadiums and rock tours have always had corporate names. The list is interesting, and also pretty entertaining. But, be warned, it will make you feel old.
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