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MILLENNIALS ON CAMPUS:
USING THE TRAITS OF A GENERATION TO IMPROVE HIGHER EDUCATION

by
Stephanie Kidd

A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the Degree
Doctor of in Higher Education Administration
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX
March 2014

© 2014 by Stephanie Kidd
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

MILLENNIALS ON CAMPUS:
USING THE TRAITS OF A GENERATION TO IMPROVE HIGHER EDUCATION by Stephanie Kidd

March 19, 2014

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Ronald Hutkin, Ph.D., Committee Chair
Mark Johnson, Ph.D., Committee Member
Elizabeth Johnston, Ed.D., Committee Member

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Defined as special, sheltered, selfconfident, pressured, achieving, conventional, and team-oriented, the Millennial
Generation entered the collegiate environment starting in 1999, and higher education faculty and administrators must acknowledge a crucial need to understand strategies to support success in the classroom using the learner’s new cultural characteristics. This phenomenological qualitative study was conducted to gather the lived experiences of 12
Millennial college learners from a small proprietary college in the Midwest, and use the themes that emerged from that research to create suggestions for changes to the current
American collegiate system. Themes from this research include: (a) Millennials are special to their parents; (b) Millennials have self-confidence; (c) Millennials are pressured to achieve; and (d) Millennials are impacted by technology.

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Research Questions
The qualitative phenomenological study explored the Millennial Generation and their experience in the world of higher education. The research questions for this study are: R1. How do the seven traits of the Millennial Generation define the higher education experience as perceived by Millennial Generation college students?
R2. How might higher education leaders use the perceived associations of
Millennial Generation college students with the seven traits to influence
Millennial Generation college students in a positive manner?
The interview included a series of questions concerning each of the seven traits in an attempt to gain insight about each of the traits and how the traits affect the students’ classroom experiences. The interview questions are located in Appendix A.
Additional questions were included to allow students the chance to discuss other aspects of their lives that have impacted their learning. These aspects included: parental involvement, socio-economic status, education level of their parents, field of study, high school experience, high school GPA, and participation in AP
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