Monday, 2 February 2009

Planning for Higher Education: Make Way For The Milennials

Source: Planning

Themonikers are many: Generation Y, Echo Boomers, GenMe, the NetGeneration, RenGen, and Generation Next. One name that appears to begaining currency is “Millennials,” perhaps as a way to betterdifferentiate the current generation from its predecessor, GenerationX. Millennials are those individuals born between 1982 and 2002, giveor take a couple of years (Howe and Strauss 2000, 2007). They representa generation that began to spill onto college and university campusesat the turn of the millennium and have already had a subtle—andsometimes not so subtle—impact on campus space. Millennials nowinfluence space planning, design, and construction and will continue totransform higher education as they return to campus as faculty andstaff.

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