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Author Howe, Neil.

Title Millennials go to college : strategies for a new generation on campus : recruiting and admissions, campus life, and the classroom / by Neil Howe & William Strauss.

Imprint Great Falls, Va. : LifeCourse Associates, ©2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  378.198 H838m 2007    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed.
Description vii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Note Cover title.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228).
Contents A new generation goes to college -- Who they are. Meet the millennials ; Life before college ; Millennials by the numbers ; Seven core traits -- What to do. Special ; Sheltered ; Confident ; Team-oriented ; Conventional ; Pressured ; Achieving -- What comes next. From boom to X : the parent transition ; Graduation and beyond ; The next great collegiate generation.
Summary They are called the "Millennial generation." They include all Americans born since 1982. They are flooding into America's campuses. And they are nothing like the "Gen-X" youth who preceded them. Many college leaders wonder how they should respond to these new students. This book by America's leading generational experts helps them to find out. -- Publisher description.
Subject College students -- United States -- Attitudes.
Conflict of generations -- United States.
Intergenerational relations -- United States.
Generation Y -- Education -- United States.
Intergenerational Relations. (DNLM)D016901
Students. (DNLM)D013334
College students -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst00867980
Conflict of generations. (OCoLC)fst00874815
Intergenerational relations. (OCoLC)fst00976251
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Strauss, William.
LifeCourse Associates.
ISBN 0971260613 (pbk.)
9780971260610 (pbk.)
1578580331
9781578580330

 
    
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