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- Title
THE NEW STUDENT.
- Authors
Newton, Fred B.
- Abstract
Students entering college at the beginning of this new century are a distinctive generation. They have been described as ambitious, precocious, stressed, indifferent, wayward, politically conservative and sexually active. These descriptions are only a portion of many qualities that make up this generation. The truth, of course, is that this generation deals with many of the same developmental issues that students have dealt with for ages, such as individuating from childhood influences, forming peer relationships, developing vocational skills and determining a purpose and a path for future life. However, today's students have grown up in a world in revolution, where rapid changes have provided a new expansiveness in information, a multiplicity of potential life experiences, advancing technological sophistication and pluralistic social models to emulate. In many ways, this revolution has dramatically affected the attitudes, behaviors and aspirations of students and altered how the college years function in helping students make the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
- Subjects
STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; COLLEGE students; GENERATIONS; VOCATION
- Publication
About Campus, 2000, Vol 5, Issue 5, p8
- ISSN
1086-4822
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/108648220000500504