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The world according to first-year students.
For faculty and administrators "who may be suffering from hardening of the references," Beloit College WI has issued its fifth annual mindset list. It reminds Beloit employees that the world looks different for today's generation of new students than it did for them.
Professor Tom McBride co-created the list; he heads Beloit's First Year Initiatives (FYI) program, a semester-long academic program for entering students, described as both a "safety net and a trampoline." Recognizing the talents of a new generation of students is important, McBride said. "While they are learning from us, we need to make ourselves understood or we run the risk of failing to convey the base of ideas that will allow us to share the road to wisdom." To do that, the teacher and the student need to share a common set of references; hence this list.
Born in 1984, these students live in a world where:
* Big Brother has always been just a TV show.
* A Southerner has always been President of the United States.
* "Barbie" has always had a job.
* Women have always had tattoos.
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