TLC Tip of the Week: The Mindset of the Class of 2024

September 18, 2020

This is not so much a teaching tip as a snapshot of our incoming first year students. For years, Beloit College published a list of things first-year students had ALWAYS and NEVER known, to provide instructors with historical touchstones, and help us avoid making embarrassingly out-of-date pop culture references in class. The operation moved to Marist College last year and is now known as the Marist Mindset. Some highlights of this year’s list:

The Class of 2024 will explore race relations beyond Black Lives Matter, to grasp how Whiteness has shaped bias and influence in American culture today
The Harry Potter series has been banned somewhere in the US their entire lifetime
The necessity of personal protective equipment (PPE) will inform fashion trends for the next couple of seasons
They are keenly aware of major threats to the health of our society created by a global pandemic and global climate crisis, but the value and veracity of science in our national dialogue is increasingly questioned.

For this year’s full Marist Mindset list, click this link.

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