The Mindset List™

2019

"Members of the Class of 2019 ... never licked a postage stamp."

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Beloit College Releases

The Mindset List™

Class of 2019

Background

"Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List™, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall."

Overview

"Members of the entering college class of 2019 were mostly born in 1997 and have never licked a postage stamp, have assumed that Wi-Fi is an entitlement, and have no first-hand experience of Princess Diana’s charismatic celebrity."

"For this year’s entering class there has always been Google; Email, informal to previous Millennials, has emerged as “the new formal” for them, while texting and other social media serve as the wild and wooly mode of exchange."

"Teachers have had to work overtime encouraging them to move beyond the Web and consult sources in books and journals. Poland has always been a member of NATO, suggesting that Mr. Putin’s heartburn about Western expansion is at least as old as the new college kids are."

Authors

"The Beloit College Mindset List, which this year is as old as the entering students themselves, is created by Ron Nief, Director Emeritus of Beloit College Public Affairs; Tom McBride, Professor Emeritus of English; and Charles Westerberg, Brannon-Ballard Professor of Sociology."

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