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 News | 1 Comment THE MINDSET LIST: CLASS OF 2022 by Tom McBride • August 20, 2018 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 Author contacts: Ron Nief (608-770-2625) niefr@beloit.edu Tom McBride (608-312-9508) mcbridet@beloit.edu Charles Westerberg (608-225-8100) westerbc@beloit.edu The New Millennium Belongs to This Year’s Entering College Class of 2022 in The 21st Annual Mindset List Human beings have always been living — not just traveling — in space. It’s a concise little manual for teachers, counselors, administrators–useful for anyone involved in the education and training of America’s most talked-about generation. Looking for Great and Time-Tested Public Speakers? “Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo. As co-authors, we want our readers to explore the underlying message of THE MINDSET LISTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY: From Typewriters to Text Messages, What 10 Generations of Americans Think is Normal. News | Leave a comment THE MINDSET LIST® SPEAKERS’ PROGRAM by Tom McBride • April 15, 2015 THE MINDSET LIST® SPEAKS! A lot can change in just 18 years, but these same 18 years also make up the mindset—or “event horizon”—of today’s entering college students. But they were also born during a time of low birth rates compared to those of the later 40s and the 1950s. While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States. Best Colleges 
 
 U.S. News provides nearly 50 different types of numerical rankings and lists to help students narrow their college search. We ate the same food, prepared in advance for us, all in the same place. They’ve never read a Peanuts strip that wasn’t a repeat and they never had the privilege of a Montgomery Ward catalogue as a booster seat. One part of this chasm occurs when the older party, the teacher, assumes knowledge that the younger party doesn’t have. Same-sex marriage has always been legal somewhere and the once revolutionary “You’ve got mail” is almost forgotten. There are about 75 million Millennials and more than ten million fewer Gen Xers.
– US News & World Report is ready to shock us all with its Best Colleges 2011 ranking, which places Harvard smack dab on top. Again. But—news alert!—Princeton has tumbled from tying the venerable Crimson to No. 2. That list, which you can see here, doesn't wow us quite so much as does another annual list released today: Beloit College's Mindset List, which gives us a snapshot of the realities and events shaping the lives of this year's freshman class, born in 1992. Some highlights: The majority don't know how to write in cursive. They have never had trouble understanding what a "caramel macchiato" is. Clint Eastwood is some guy who directs movies. Fergie is a member of the Black Eyed Peas, not the British Royal Family. Czechoslovakia has never existed. The Post Office has always been basically broke. Click here for the complete 75-item list (Buffy and Barney and Beanie Babies, oh my!).