This year's Mindset List!
Aug. 22nd, 2007 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1Once again, Wisconsin's Beloit College has developed and released their "Mindset List" for this year. It's supposed to give faculty and staff an idea of the mindset of their incoming freshmen.
To quote from their website:
Without further ado, here's the list.
To quote from their website:
The Mindset List is not a chronological listing of things that happened in the year that the entering first-year students were born.
Our effort is to identify a worldview of 18 year-olds in the fall of 2007. We take a risk in some cases of making generalizations, particularly given that our students at Beloit College for instance come from every state and scores of nations.
The "Class of 2011" refers to students entering college this year. They are generally 18 which suggests they were born in 1989.
The list identifies the experiences and event horizons of students as they commence higher education and is not meant to reflect on their preparatory education.
Without further ado, here's the list.
