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Sternberg, Jason – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
This paper examines discussions of Generation Y within higher education discourse, arguing the sector's use of the term to describe students is misguided for three reasons. First, portraying students as belonging to Generation Y homogenises people undertaking higher education as young, middle-class and technologically literate. Second, speaking of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, College Students, Generational Differences
Emeagwali, N. Susan – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2011
No conversation about student leadership would be complete without a closer look at the population of students who sit in classrooms today, their traits and hopes for the future, to determine what kind of leaders they are likely to make. They are in fact the Millennials--born between 1982 and perhaps 2004. And the Millennials, also known as the…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Cohort Analysis, Influence of Technology, Social Networks