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• Who is coming?
• Development
• Attitudes
• Michigan State University
• Generation Y
• Alignment with the University
• MSU Residence Halls
• MSU First-Year Student Data

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Entering Students

• DEMOGRAPHICS

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Everyone is Coming But Not All Are Staying

• 75 of U.S. high school graduates enter college

• 47 graduate within 5 years
• Minority rates lower

The College Board
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Age on December 31, 2006- United States

• 2 17 or younger
• 69 18
• 28 19
• lt1 20
• lt1 21 to 24
• lt1 25 or older

97 - Traditional
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Family

• 71 - Parents both alive living with each other
• 25 - Parents both alive, divorced or living
  apart
• 4 - One or both deceased

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Parents Education
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• Great grades
• Great test scores
• Great success

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Intended Majors
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MSU Colleges
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Development
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• Growing up
• Many options/choices
• Independence

• Need consequences
• Reflection
• Connection

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Chickerings 7 Vectors

• Developing competence
• Managing emotions
• Moving through autonomy to independence
• Developing mature interpersonal relationships
• Establishing identity
• Developing purpose
• Developing integrity

Chickering, 1969
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Kohlberg

• Level 1 (Pre-Conventional)
• 1. Obedience and punishment orientation
• 2. Self-interest orientation (What's in it for
  me?)
• Level 2 (Conventional)
• 3. Interpersonal accord and conformity (The good
  boy/good girl attitude)
• 4. Authority and social-order maintaining
  orientation (Law and order morality)
• Level 3 (Post-Conventional)
• 5. Social contract orientation
• 6. Universal ethical principles (Principled
  conscience)

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Attitudes
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Want Out of Life

• 76 - Raise a family
• 73 - Be very well off financially
• 67 - Help others who are in difficulty
• 58 - Become an authority in my field
• 54 - Obtain recognition from colleagues
  for
  contributions to my field

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Money
Meaning
CIRP - 2006
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The overall pull of materialism in society is
prompting many colleges to do more "to encourage
exploration of the inner life".
Alexander Astin
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Expectations
61 - Make at least a B average 54 - Be
satisfied with college 33 - Communicate
regularly with professors 27 - Participate in
volunteer or community-service
work 29 - Participate in a study-abroad
program 2247 MSU undergraduates studied
abroad in 2005-06. 65 - Socialize with someone
of another racial/ethnic group
Noel-Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory
100 item attitudinal survey during orientation
or within the first few weeks of classes)
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Academic Commitment

• Women are more motivated and have better study
  skills but men are more confident that they will
  succeed
• 30 of males and 26 of females agreed with the
  statement When I try to study, I usually get
  bored and quit after a few minutes
• Over half frequently or occasionally came late to
  class
• Half turned in work that was not their best
• One third skipped class at least occasionally
• 51 percent spent less than an hour per week
  reading for pleasure in their senior year of high
  school.

Noel-Levitz - 2006
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Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP
2006)
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Handling Money

• Nearly one-third (32) admit that they were "not
  at all" or "not very well prepared" for managing
  their money on campus

• The biggest mistakes were
• Overspending on food 21
• Entertainment -19
• Putting too many purchases on their credit card
  -16

Harris Interactive - Michelle Soto
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Michigan State University
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MSU

• LARGE, PUBLIC, RESEARCH INTENSIVE UNIVERSITY
• One of the top 100 universities in the world
• 45,520 students last fall
• 39,825 full-time students
• 35,162 undergraduate students
• 6,773 graduate students
• 1,600 professional students

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Largest 4 Year Schools Fall 2006
University of Phoenix, Online Campus-  115,794 in
2004 Miami Dade Community College - 57,026 in
2004
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Race and Ethnicity
Multiple choices permitted
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MSU

• Largest student groups
• 800 Korea
• 602 China
• 373 India
• 209 Taiwan
• 145 Canada
• 138 Japan

• Nationally, for 8 - English is NOT their native
  language

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Home Gender

• Of the 45,520 MSU Students
• 82 come from Michigan
• 10 come from other states
• 8 come from other countries

• 45 - Men
• 55 - Women

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Religious preference USA

• 28 - Roman Catholic
• 11 - Baptist
• 3 - Jewish
• 1 - Buddhist
• 19 - None

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Substances

• 2000-2006
• Trend downward
• Smoking
• Cigar smoking
• Drinking
• Rohypnol

• However
• 17.4 of our MSU students used marijuana,
  cocaine, amphetamines,
  Rohypnol, or other drugs at least once in the
  last month

National College Health Association - MSU Data
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Generation Y
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Catching the Attention of GEN-Yers

• What catches our students attention?

• 1. Utilize Buzz/Word of Mouth Marketing
• 2. Make it flashy and new
• 3. Integrate technologies
• 4. Attach to a good cause
• 5. Make life easier
• 6. Style and image are everything
• 7. Go where they are- make it unique and funny
• 8. Send out a street team
• 9. Keep it new - offer incentives, discounts, and
  free stuff

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Alignment with the University
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Students who complete an undergraduate degree
program at Michigan State University are expected
to demonstrate

• INTEGRATED JUDGMENT
• They have explored both scientific and aesthetic
  ways of knowing, and can integrate them
• They are committed to life-long learning
• ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS
• They can write and speak effectively
• CULTURAL COMPETENCE
• They have explored and values diverse views and
  cultures and appreciate difference

• ANALYTICAL THINKING
• They can analyze from multiple perspectives
• LITERACY IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
• They can make decisions based on a critical
  evaluation of information using scientific
  principles for hypothesis testing.
• EFFECTIVE CITIZENSHIP
• They can participate in community life as both
  leader and member

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• We are in partnership

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Exemplar Programs at MSU

• Living-Learning
• Service Learning
• Study Abroad

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Residence Halls
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Residence Halls at MSU

• 23 Halls
• 15,000 students
• 95 of all first-year students
• 50 of all second year students
• 3 apartment areas 1 new undergraduate complex
• Most halls
• Have double rooms long hallway (some students
  have singles)
• Each floor is home to 40 to 60 students
• Rooms are about 10 by 10
• Half have a bath on the floor the other half
  share a bathroom with another room
• The halls range in size from 70 to 1200 students

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Special Options

• Residential Colleges
• Lyman Briggs in Holmes Hall
• James Madison in Case Hall
• Residential College for Arts and Humanities in
  Shaw Hall
• Residential Living-Learning Programs
• Broad Business in Shaw Hall
• ROSES (Residential Engineering Program) in Bailey
  Hall
• RISE (Environmental Science) in Hubbard Hall and
  University Apartments
• Other Programs
• La Casa (Spanish speaking floor) in McDonel Hall
• International Floor in McDonel Hall
• Transfer students and international
  undergraduates McDonel Hall
• Over 21 year old undergraduates and graduate
  students in Owen Hall
• Numerous honors floors throughout the system

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Other Options

• Next year all halls will be smoke free
• Some halls are alcohol free
• Many halls have quiet floors
• Some floors are co-ed
• Halls are open 24/7 to residents
• Doors are locked from midnight to 7 am
• Guests can be admitted
• Owen and the apartments are the only facilities
  open during the winter holiday
• Everyone has a cafeteria most in the hall

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Outcomes for Living-Learning Programs

• Higher retention
• Smoother transition to college
• Higher academic performance
• Enjoyment of challenging academic pursuits
• Greater openness to new ideas and concepts
• Greater sense of belonging
• Greater cultural competence
• Lower levels of drinking
• Higher levels of civic engagement

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MSU First-Time Freshman Data
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The Beginning