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In 2005, the year most of this fall’s first-time students were born, Dan Rather retired, Pandora was created and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita offered a preview of the weather catastrophes that today have become the norm.
This year’s iteration of the Marist Mindset List, the annual guide designed to provide insights into the thinking of incoming college students, cites those developments as indicative of how much the world has changed in the years since this semester’s new learners were born. The list was conceived and produced by Beloit College until 2020, when Marist University took it over.
The emergence of Pandora, Spotify and other music services forever changed how we consume music, new and old, and as a result, “incoming students are just as likely to be listening to Led Zeppelin as Lana del Rey or Lil’ Baby on their phones,” the list’s creators write.
Rather’s resignation and that of Ted Koppel the same year “effectively” meant the end of network news, so today’s students “get their news primarily from social media sites like Youtube, Instagram and Tiktok,” the list notes. Ditto for film and television.
Other items on the list explore how dramatically the environment, attention spans and education have changed in the last 18 years. Explore the list here.
