No, I will be the only presenterCommittee: Group III: Records and Academic Services
First Learning Outcome: Define characteristics for specified generational groups.
Second Learning Outcome: Identify common education trends for specified generational groups
Third Learning Outcome: Discuss ways in which higher education institutions can help students from all generational groups
Core Competency: Holistic and Systemic Thinking
Proficiency: Records & Academic Services Proficiencies
Intended Audience: General Audience / Intended for Everyone
Higher education, and the modern workforce, currently serve five different generational groups. As such, we are seeing an increase in non-traditional students on campus, which means that the student, staff, and faculty populations include members from nearly all generational groups.
There are currently six generational groups participating, or about to participate, in higher education.
Traditionalists (1928-1945)
Baby Boomers (1946-1964)
Generation X (1965-1980)
Millennials (1981-1996)
Generation Z (1997-2012)
Generation Alpha (2013-???)
Although we know that no one group acts as a monolith, common traits have been identified within these groups. Educational institutions are struggling to serve populations that fall outside of the traditional student archetype (Recently high school graduates with minimum transfer credit) because of the needs of the non-traditional populations.
This session will review the different generational groups, including formative events and common traits, and use these identified characteristics to address resulting concerns and hindrances in degree completion and later, the workforce. This will include:
Changing campus populations
School amenities and resource targets
Outdated/ineffectual Curriculum and policies
This session also strives to generate attendee discussion and exchange of ideas on how institutions are addressing problems.
Presenter(s):
Morgan Jackson The University of Alabama
Generational Differences: The Changing Face of Higher Education
Category
Breakout Sessions
Description
Higher Education has undergone quick, radical change. Activities have become increasingly collaborative, cognitively complex, and dependent on technological competence. Millennials and Generation Z have begun to outnumber Generation X and Baby Boomers, and their work habits, outlooks, and expectations are dramatically different. As a result, staffing has become increasingly difficult, and offices are looking at ways to bridge the gap between the generations and their new work requirements.
Submission ID: 17877
Room D139-140L: 4/4/2022, 09:00 AM - 09:45 AM