March 30, 2007
Millennials as Graduate Students
Generational change is coming to campuses, but this time it's not the students who are changing. It's the parents. This is the final year that most students will have parents who grew up as baby boomers. Next fall, according to census figures, the majority of freshmen will have Gen-X moms, born between 1961 and 1981. Two years later, a majority will have Gen-X dads. And four or five years after that, most of the proud moms and dads of graduating seniors will be Gen Xers.
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