This document discusses challenges and opportunities for enhancing the well-being of Generation Y or Millennial students during their college years. It notes that Millennials tend to be hyper-organized, high-achieving students who experience unusual stress levels. The document proposes addressing these issues by making campus life more spontaneous, developing strong peer networks, and balancing breadth of experiences with depth through programs like faculty fellows, URECA, OPCD, and integrating technology responsibly.

1. “Connections and
Conversations”
Rogan Kersh, WFU Provost
April 2014
Enhancing Millennials' Well-Being:
Challenges & Opportunities

2. • Baby Boomers: 1945-63
• Generation X: 1964-82
• Generation Y: 1983-2001
• ???: 2002-
Overview:
American Generations

3. Challenges/Opportunities Abound
Address during College/University Years:
Focus on This Generation of Students
Gen Y: What Is To Be Done?

5.  Hyper-organized/routinized
 High achievers; “everything‟s a job”
 Unusual stress levels

6.  Spontaneous Campus:
 Dan Biederman
 WFU Well-Being Index

7.  Unusual „peer networks‟
 Highly adult-supervised/curated lives

8.  Teacher-Scholars
 Faculty Fellows
 URECA

9.  Breadth…at what cost?
 Gen X/Slackers: Gen Y/???
 Generation Wired

10.  OPCD
 Technology in Context