Generation NeXt Goes to Work: Issues is Workplace Readiness and Performance from the 2007 Higher Learning Commission Collection of Papers. Click the link below to download the PDF of this April 2007 article on improving the workplace readiness of Gen NeXt.
Article on Managing Students' Parents available for download
The November 2006 issue of The Bulletin of the Association of College Unions International includes my article "Helicopters, Snowplows and Bulldozers: Managing Students Parents". Click the link "Parents 06" below to download this PDF.
Article on Generation NeXt Comes to College: 2006 Updates and Emerging Issues available for download
The PDF link below will take you to an article, published April 2006, in A Collection of Papers on Self-Study and Institutional Improvement, 2006 by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. It focuses on Generation NeXt in academics and workplace readiness, the rising impact of technology, internationalization and accountability pressures, overviews my suggested change Initiatives, and offers an overview of my model of Postmodern Education.
If you or members of your staff development or conference planning committee would like to hear audio from a (very short) 45 minute session I presented at a national meeting to help you decide if I am appropriate for your school or meeting please let me know at info@taylorprograms.org and I will send you a CD or e-mail an MP3.
Article download available Generation NeXt: Today's Postmodern Student Meeting, Teaching and Serving
The link below will take you to an article that was published in the 2005 Collection of Papers on Self-Study and Institutional Improvement by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools in April 2005.
My "Speak Out" piece was published in the April 04 edition of Student Affairs Today, the monthly newsletter from LRP publications. You can e-mail me at info@taylorprograms.org for a copy of this article. Subscription information is available here
Generation X Goes to College:
An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America
(Open Court, 1996)
The society of "spectacle" that characterizes postmodern America has nurtured new generations of college students, teaching them to approach higher education with a consumerist mindset. Part memoir, part analysis and de-construction of contemporary American culture, GENERATION X GOES TO COLLEGE makes for an amusing and disturbing read.
From Dr. Taylor: This outstanding book, based on Peter Sacks’ experience as a teacher at a community college, is the most lucid and readable description of Generation X in college. He is responsible for introducing postmodern theory into the analysis of higher education. It is a great read and a must for everyone in higher education. His work is the foundation for my analysis of Generation NeXt; the subsequent and current cohort of college students. Follow this link to his site.
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January 2007 Tompkins Cortland Community College is changing web servers, so this link will be inactive until the transition is complete. Please try back later. In the meantime, you might do a web search on "active learning strategies" and your subject area to bring up other schools and resources.
