The Millennial Students Analysis

The article “Welcoming a New Generation to College: The Millennial Students,” by Elam, Stratton, and Gibson (2007) describes an overview of the current generation of pre-college and college age students, and furthermore provides their unique qualities and challenges to study.
Beginning with a summary of the topic and then continuing about the history of the generations’ developments, including the G.I. generation, the Silent generation, the Boom generation, and the Generation X in the fields of behavior, focused on studying and learning, the article describes the positive and negative results of the Millennial Generation. It is stated that the most recent generation to enroll in colleges is the Millennial Generation. These youths and their process of growing up with a large focus on positive qualities are described, yet included are the challenges of the new generation on teachers, counselors, and administrators at high schools and
In the article, Millennial Students are then defined according to Howe and Strauss (2000) as (1) conventionally motivated, (2) structured rule followers, (3) protected and sheltered, (4) cooperative and team oriented, and (5) talented achievers (Elam, Stratton, and Gibson, 2007, p. 25). Following this, each definition is exactly and carefully described and finally, the students are characterized as confident and optimistic regarding their futures, still concluding that not all students are successful. This last point is defined as being very relevant: Students, as well as parents, may be quick to claim unfairness especially when dealing with admission counselors. It is hence asked from counselors to “nurture their “can-do” attitudes, civic-minded proclivities and empathic concerns in hopes they may ultimately lead to large-scale societal improvements.” (Elam, Stratton, and Gibson, 2007, p.