Seemiller CoreyGrace Meghan - Generation Z Goes to College

I dedicate this book to the most important Generation Z person I knowmy daughter, Kacey.

Corey

To my grandparents, for supporting my love for learning. To my parents, for being my best friends and biggest fans.

Meghan

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Seemiller, Corey, author. | Grace, Meghan, author.

Title: Generation Z goes to college / Corey Seemiller, Meghan Grace.

Description: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2016. | Includes

bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015036096 (print) | LCCN 2015041434 (ebook) | ISBN

9781119143451 (cloth) | ISBN 9781118143529 (ePDF) | ISBN 9781118143482 (ePub)

Subjects: LCSH: College studentsAttitudes.

Classification: LCC LB3605 .S3828 2016 (print) | LCC LB3605 (ebook) | DDC

378.1/98dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036096

Cover design by: Wiley

We wrote this book because we wanted to share findings from our study, Generation Z Goes to College and other studies that would help educators, parents, employers, and students themselves understand Generation Z better. We wanted specifically to frame this book in the context of higher education because Generation Z is already in college. As programs, courses, processes, environments, and initiatives adapted to Millennials in higher education, we must be prepared to do the same for this next generation of students.

This book reports data from 295 sources, and incorporates findings from the Generation Z Goes to College study, for which both of us served as the primary investigators. A great deal of the findings presented in this book are from this study, yet we heavily supplement them with work from other scholars whom we cite throughout the book. The statistics, charts, graphs, and quotations of student perspectives that we do not explicitly cite come from our study.

Corey Seemiller has worked in higher education for more than twenty years in faculty and administrative positions. She has both taught and directed programs related to her areas of expertise, which include leadership, civic engagement, career development, and social justice. She currently serves as an assistant professor in the organizational leadership program at Wright State University and previously held roles including director of leadership, learning, and assessment at OrgSync, a campus management technology platform, and director of leadership programs at the University of Arizona. In 2008, Seemiller cofounded the Sonoran Center for Leadership Development, a 501(c)(3) organization that offers affordable and accessible leadership development training for individuals and groups in southern Arizona. She is the author of The Student Leadership Competencies Guidebook, to help educators design intentional curriculum aimed to develop students' leadership competencies. She also designed evaluation measurements for each competency, an online database that outlines leadership competencies needed by each academically accredited industry, a workbook, online competency self-inventory, and an iOS app. Seemiller received her bachelor's degree in communication from Arizona State University, master's degree in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University, and Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Arizona. She is a member of Generation X.

Meghan Grace received her undergraduate degree in communication studies from Chapman University. After receiving her master's degree in higher education from the University of Arizona, she pursued a career in student affairs. She worked in leadership programs at the University of Arizona, where she taught courses in social entrepreneurship, event planning, leadership, and career readiness. She currently serves as the new member orientation director for Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, where she coordinates orientation events and educational programs. Meghan is a Millennial.

We acknowledge the many scholars and authors who have put forth seminal research that has contributed to the dialogue on generations, including Neil Howe and William Strauss, Arthur Levine and Diane Dean, Ron Zemke, Haydn Shaw, Chuck Underwood, and Tim Elmore. Generation Z authors, including Chole Combi who compiled stories of Generation Z as well as Tom Koulopoulos and Dan Keldsen who highlight how to work with Generation Z in the business world, have contributed greatly to our understanding of this generation.

We started our journey with Generation Z in summer 2013, right before the oldest in this generation were about to start college. Both of us at the time were working in a university leadership programs office, putting together programs, events, and courses for thousands of students each year. We were fascinated with the new generation of students before us. No one in higher education was talking about them yet. We knew if we did not pay attention to changing demographics, the leadership experiences we designed for these students might not be relevant.