Thinking about the University Students: A Portrait of the Millennial Generation
Mary Z. Rose
Catalog and Metadata Librarian, Assistant Professor
Lovejoy Library
Explores the meaningful characteristics of being a member of the so-called Millennial
Generation in the United States. Also known as Generation Y or Generation Next, this is
the group of people born in the 1980s and early 1990s. The justification for examining
people in generational groupings rests on the fact that they experience in common
cultural phenomena and national incidents at roughly similar stages in their personal
development. These experiences and the time of life in which they occur contribute to the
formation of a person’s worldview. Describes the general assumptions of generational
theory and how they apply in particular to the Millennial Generation. Summarizes the
broad worldview characteristics that can be attributed to being a part of the Millennial
Generation according to this theory.