- Technology and
- us: inseparable!
We are the very
first generation to
have complete
integration with
technology. Smart
phones, computers,
social networking,
and now "The
Cloud" ... Flash
Mobs, etc ...
electronic technology has always been integral to our lives. We
have never known life without computers, cell phones, text, etc.
- Huge disposable income: Although the bracket changes each
year, currently, demographers identify young adults between 21
and 29 years of age as being Millennials. (Next year, it will be
between 21 and 30.) But, in spite of our comparative youth, we
command the largest disposable income of any generation in
American history. We have annual incomes totaling $211-billion
and, statistically, we have the largest overall buying power of
any group in the history of the United States. The recession
has hurt us, as it has all individuals and families, but our
comparative youth, our flexibility in the marketplace, and our
never-before-seen technological expertise make us very
employable in high-paying jobs. Nonetheless, there are more of
us than the number of jobs available and many in our age group
are facing daunting challenges when it comes to finding suitable
employment.
- Good childhoods: Our childhoods tended to be good. Our
parents loved us and showered us with a great deal of attention
and favors. We got to do vast numbers of interesting things like
soccer, lacrosse, swim team,
- internships at museums, camping,
skiing, overseas trips ... our
parents supported us in fulfilling
our ambitions. Maybe it's because
our parents were so supportive
and had such high expectations
for us that we are both confident
and competent as adults.
- Supportive of higher education: We believe in college but not
necessarily campus-style colleges. We live and breathe
technology, so online education makes the most sense to many
of us.
- A degree is not necessarily all that important: Unlike our
parents generation, we want to learn about things that interest
us but we don't automatically see having a degree as the
ultimate goal. We have the example of people like Bill Gates,
Steve Jobs, and Richard Branson. (NOTE: Many of us, while
not believing a degree should always be the ultimate goal
educationally, we nevertheless see the importance of a college
education. Sadly, the U.S. used to lead the world leader in
attainment of college degrees but, today, our country has
dropped to number 13!)
- We're often religious but traditional institutional churches
themselves don't attract us: We believe in the God of our
understanding and we often talk with our friends about God,
spirituality, ethics, life and death. But, we are nowhere as
captivated by official church institutions as our parents were.
- We tend to hang out in groups: We do marry, of course, but
we are somewhat unique as our generation isn't as into dating
as you might think. We are more likely to hang out in groups or
do things with a few of our friends than to date as couples.
- Millennials have a
uniquely different view
of work: Maybe because
our calendars helped
organize us and our many
activities as kids, we
prefer structure as
adults. We want an open
relationship with our
bosses and an easy
communication about how
we are doing and what
skills we can learn. We
do not, however, worship
work. We work to live,
not live to work! Often,
we will accept lower pay in
- return for less than a 40-hour work week. We want a lot of time
off to pursue personal interests. Many of us would rather
work at home than labor in an actual office.
- Entrepreneurship: An estimated 50% of us report that we
expect to start and operate our own business at some point in
the near future. Most of us realize that we need to start simple,
and on a small-scale.
- Politics: We believe that the only political institutions worth
having are those that provide real leadership and services that
improve the lives of people at all levels of society. The old-time
politicians that our parents either supported or endured have no
meaning for us. Graft, greed, selling out to greedy, self-serving,
corporations, endless lying and cheating ... we find these to be
appalling. There is speculation that we may attempt a new form
of government by utilizing our social networking and
technological skills.
- War, environment, and our planet as a whole: We are not
willing to give national leaders the right to wage perpetual war.
No war makes sense to us unless we are directly attacked on
our own shores. The $20-30 BILLION that the U.S. government
spends on wars each week deprives decent people of
resources that are so desperately needed. The environment is
also a big issue for us. Our parents generation and the people
who preceded them ravaged our planet. But, to be blunt, they
will die off someday and we will be left to live on a cinder...unless
we do something to end the destruction of our rain forests, the
pollution of our water, our dependence of petro-chemicals, and
the poisoning of our people with carcinogenic pesticides and
hormones.
- Equality / Diversity: Perhaps more than any generation
- before us, we tend to be
non-racist and inclusive.
Demographers support
this tendency as recent
statistics show that over
one-third of us identify
ourselves as being non-
Caucasian. Pew
Research indicates that
Millennials are much more
- likely to date inter-racially than the generations that came
before:
- Generation X was 82% supportive of inter-racial dating
- Millennials are said to be 93% supportive of inter-racial
dating, again, even if not personally participating. (Pew
research)
Just as individual people, corporations, and entire nations
have personalities...GENERATIONS HAVE PERSONALITIES,
too!
Each stamps its values, world views, and lifestyle preferences on
the whole of society. And, historically, each emerging generation
builds upon the successes or failures of the one that preceded it.
However, the newcomers are almost always more dissimilar than
similar to the generation from which they spring.
We have seen it with the World War II generation, the Baby
Boomers, "Love Generation - Hippies", Yuppies, and Gen X.
"Who are we?" If we stop to consider an identification for us and
our friends, we are likely to think, "Well, I guess our generation is
pretty cool and we want to live good lives...we want to be happy!"
But, society has a fairly large collection of names for us,
including, Millennials, Gen-Y, Generation Y, Generation Next,
Net Generation, even Echo Boomers
BABYBOOMERS: Were born after World War II. Originally
called "The Post-War Babyboomers," this generation sprang from
the extraordinarily large number of marriages and pregnancies
that followed the return home of over 15-million soldiers. This
caused a huge spike in births...and resulted in a dramatic
"population bulge" that continues to this day as these men and
women become seniors. There are roughly 75-million Americans
in this group.
GEN X: Born 1965-1976, according to demographers. Many
grew up in single-parent families, under-protected. Now about 51
million strong.
MILLENNIALS: Born 1977 – 1998 (Some demographers put the
years of birth at 1976 - 2002). Estimate: we are 80-million strong
have personalities...GENERATIONS HAVE PERSONALITIES,
too!
Each stamps its values, world views, and lifestyle preferences on
the whole of society. And, historically, each emerging generation
builds upon the successes or failures of the one that preceded it.
However, the newcomers are almost always more dissimilar than
similar to the generation from which they spring.
We have seen it with the World War II generation, the Baby
Boomers, "Love Generation - Hippies", Yuppies, and Gen X.
- This generation is
so completely
unique...
Generational
differences are
perhaps nowhere
more dramatically
obvious than with the
current group of
young adults. We
are the Millenials!
And, we are
different!
"Who are we?" If we stop to consider an identification for us and
our friends, we are likely to think, "Well, I guess our generation is
pretty cool and we want to live good lives...we want to be happy!"
But, society has a fairly large collection of names for us,
including, Millennials, Gen-Y, Generation Y, Generation Next,
Net Generation, even Echo Boomers
BABYBOOMERS: Were born after World War II. Originally
called "The Post-War Babyboomers," this generation sprang from
the extraordinarily large number of marriages and pregnancies
that followed the return home of over 15-million soldiers. This
caused a huge spike in births...and resulted in a dramatic
"population bulge" that continues to this day as these men and
women become seniors. There are roughly 75-million Americans
in this group.
GEN X: Born 1965-1976, according to demographers. Many
grew up in single-parent families, under-protected. Now about 51
million strong.
MILLENNIALS: Born 1977 – 1998 (Some demographers put the
years of birth at 1976 - 2002). Estimate: we are 80-million strong
| Who we are as related to who preceeded us |
| Who we are and How we are different: |
Ever since the ancients, colleges have pretty much operated along the same
standardized principle: a teacher talks and students listen and, hopefully, digest
what the teacher said. Over time, we have adopted
multi-media presentation -- black boards were
frequently replaced by overhead projectors and, today, overhead
projectors are being replaced by large-screen tv-like
techno-panels that have exciting colors and animation.
Still, students sit in classrooms or lecture halls and
listen to someone more experienced and learned ..
who attempts to "download" his or her knowledge into
the brains of others. Then, the students go home and
crack the books, cruise the internet and, if they walked out of the classroom with
even the basics, they begin the assemble a picture of the lesson's content. The
real learning begins at home -- after the learning was supposed to have
occurred!
But, this is not how we Millennials learn best!
We come into the college experience "pre-wired" for technology. No one before us
has. And, perhaps, colleges and universities can be forgiven for trying to teach us
in the ancient way, teacher sitting on a chair with students sitting on the ground in a
half-circle, trying to learn, in top-down style.
The thing is that we are different.
It would be an interesting study
for the Human Genome people to
study our genes -- it's possible
that our very DNA has mutated or
evolved and no longer exactly parallels
that of our predecessors!
We grew up with one focus being the linear world of Time and Space but, almost
equally, we were immersed in the technological world with the internet, ever-faster
and smaller computers, phones that went from having a cord stuck in a wall socket
to phones on which we can watch televison! We had video games that, with each
passing month, became more and more like the world of Time and Space, multi-
media experiences that immersed us in technological exposure so realistic and
intense that we now find the two worlds to be somewhat integrated. At least in terms
of how we process information. We learn best when teaching is presented in a
mode that is as close to an experience as possible.
Certainly, the way our brains process information and experience is vastly different
from that of our parents and their parents before them. We are quickly bored with
two-dimensional instruction such
as a professor standing up trying
to impart knowledge verbally, or
something scrawled on a black or
white board (and, often, we find
this to be so distracting to us that
our minds flit off to ponder
something entirely different than
the day's subject). We have not
only different preferences, we
actually have a need for nonlinear
teaching methods: our brains
have become acclimated to
holistic processing.
Because of our backgrounds, we
tend to retain what we see (and,
as also happens in virtual worlds,
what we experience) much better
than what we read. Our tendency
is to see a "picture" or very broad
outline of a topic, and then fill in
the details. As we understand
our parents' generation and the way their schools taught, the procedure was the
exact opposite for them: learn the bits and pieces and, hopefully, this would in the
end result in a grasp of the whole concept. We simply prefer (and perhaps need)
the information to come at us from a diametrically different direction.
"I need practical experience in my education. Theory is
certainly important, but The New Millennial College
Seminary provides me the
opportunity to engage
real-world projects,
which will help in the job
market after graduation"
We offer two powerful options that
are designed to help Millennials get
the educational experience they
desire:
1) You can have a Multi-Degree Major: Here at The New Millennial College
Seminary, you may select courses that will lead to two or more allied degrees. For
example, you may wish to open a counseling/chaplaincy clinic. In this case, you
could choose to receive instruction on the human services side, and also lessons
from our entrepreneurship and business programs.
2) We offer Bachelors and Masters degrees in Individualized Concentration:
Called the BDIC (Bachelor’s Degree in Individualized Concentration) and MDIC
(Masters Degree in Individualized Concentration), students may opt to have a strong
focus in a field that is of particular personal interest. This is an incredible
opportunity for a degree in a concentration that suits the individual's unique needs.
As an example, you may desire to work in the field of Environmental Preservation,
but to also be an dynamic agent for change as public speaker and presenter at
seminars. Here, you may cherry pick lessons from our Department of Environmental
Sciences, Public Speaking, Political Action, Social Justice, and Ethical Studies
programs!
Being a seminary college, all of our courses, certificates, and degrees must be
constructed around a strong ethical and spiritual framework
We Millennials tend to reject corporate greed, political pandering and dishonesty,
and societal practices that denigrate, destroy the economic opportunities of, or
pursue spiritual / religious truth. All of our courses are built upon a spiritual and
A look at our course offerings...
standardized principle: a teacher talks and students listen and, hopefully, digest
what the teacher said. Over time, we have adopted
multi-media presentation -- black boards were
frequently replaced by overhead projectors and, today, overhead
projectors are being replaced by large-screen tv-like
techno-panels that have exciting colors and animation.
Still, students sit in classrooms or lecture halls and
listen to someone more experienced and learned ..
who attempts to "download" his or her knowledge into
the brains of others. Then, the students go home and
crack the books, cruise the internet and, if they walked out of the classroom with
even the basics, they begin the assemble a picture of the lesson's content. The
real learning begins at home -- after the learning was supposed to have
occurred!
- ---
But, this is not how we Millennials learn best!
We come into the college experience "pre-wired" for technology. No one before us
has. And, perhaps, colleges and universities can be forgiven for trying to teach us
in the ancient way, teacher sitting on a chair with students sitting on the ground in a
half-circle, trying to learn, in top-down style.
The thing is that we are different.
It would be an interesting study
for the Human Genome people to
study our genes -- it's possible
that our very DNA has mutated or
evolved and no longer exactly parallels
that of our predecessors!
We grew up with one focus being the linear world of Time and Space but, almost
equally, we were immersed in the technological world with the internet, ever-faster
and smaller computers, phones that went from having a cord stuck in a wall socket
to phones on which we can watch televison! We had video games that, with each
passing month, became more and more like the world of Time and Space, multi-
media experiences that immersed us in technological exposure so realistic and
intense that we now find the two worlds to be somewhat integrated. At least in terms
of how we process information. We learn best when teaching is presented in a
mode that is as close to an experience as possible.
Certainly, the way our brains process information and experience is vastly different
from that of our parents and their parents before them. We are quickly bored with
two-dimensional instruction such
as a professor standing up trying
to impart knowledge verbally, or
something scrawled on a black or
white board (and, often, we find
this to be so distracting to us that
our minds flit off to ponder
something entirely different than
the day's subject). We have not
only different preferences, we
actually have a need for nonlinear
teaching methods: our brains
have become acclimated to
holistic processing.
Because of our backgrounds, we
tend to retain what we see (and,
as also happens in virtual worlds,
what we experience) much better
than what we read. Our tendency
is to see a "picture" or very broad
outline of a topic, and then fill in
the details. As we understand
our parents' generation and the way their schools taught, the procedure was the
exact opposite for them: learn the bits and pieces and, hopefully, this would in the
end result in a grasp of the whole concept. We simply prefer (and perhaps need)
the information to come at us from a diametrically different direction.
- Because we have a preference for peer groups, we tend to
learn better with other students than to try digesting what a
lone professor is talking about
- Even if we are placed in a classroom with an expository
professor, we will then tend to discuss our understanding, or lack
of same, with friends and student peers. If we are to "get" a
concept, it is often as a result of group interaction. We may not
desire that it be this way, but this is our reality.
"I need practical experience in my education. Theory is
certainly important, but The New Millennial College
Seminary provides me the
opportunity to engage
real-world projects,
which will help in the job
market after graduation"
We offer two powerful options that
are designed to help Millennials get
the educational experience they
desire:
1) You can have a Multi-Degree Major: Here at The New Millennial College
Seminary, you may select courses that will lead to two or more allied degrees. For
example, you may wish to open a counseling/chaplaincy clinic. In this case, you
could choose to receive instruction on the human services side, and also lessons
from our entrepreneurship and business programs.
2) We offer Bachelors and Masters degrees in Individualized Concentration:
Called the BDIC (Bachelor’s Degree in Individualized Concentration) and MDIC
(Masters Degree in Individualized Concentration), students may opt to have a strong
focus in a field that is of particular personal interest. This is an incredible
opportunity for a degree in a concentration that suits the individual's unique needs.
As an example, you may desire to work in the field of Environmental Preservation,
but to also be an dynamic agent for change as public speaker and presenter at
seminars. Here, you may cherry pick lessons from our Department of Environmental
Sciences, Public Speaking, Political Action, Social Justice, and Ethical Studies
programs!
Being a seminary college, all of our courses, certificates, and degrees must be
constructed around a strong ethical and spiritual framework
We Millennials tend to reject corporate greed, political pandering and dishonesty,
and societal practices that denigrate, destroy the economic opportunities of, or
- deprive the
human rights
of any
individual or
group.
- While many of
us have fallen
away from the
institutional
churches of
our parents,
pursue spiritual / religious truth. All of our courses are built upon a spiritual and
- ethical bedrock, although we never proselytize
or attempt convert you away from any faith
that you may hold. We are an educational
center of excellence of the non-
denominational, inter-faith Love Church
Worldwide. This is an inclusive church whose
mission is to provide opportunities for healing
humanity's ills and injustices and to assist in
creating a sustainable environment for
humans, and all life on the planet. While we
spring from Christendom, members of all
religions and faith communities are welcome
to study and interact in the excitement and
energy of The New Millennial College
Seminary!
A look at our course offerings...
- Entrepreneurship: Here, we give students an opportunity to learn
- basic practical skills for founding, operating, and profiting from a
business venture. You will learn not only all the cool new theories and
techniques, but also tried and true "pitfall avoiders". We incorporate
some business courses, psychology, stress-management, Xtreme
Marketing, team-building, and how to run a business without letting it
run you!
- Business (BBA-MBA): We offer students the basics such as how to form and
operate a small corporation, how to finance a venture, how to attract customers, how
to choose a sensible location, how to create a business that will follow spiritual
principles for improving their own lives, their communities, and the world at large.
We offer solid time-management techniques, social networking as a function of your
business, the art of negotiation, and the external market: your competition. During
this program, you may do an internship, if you wish or, if you prefer, receive credit
for actually founding a new business or upgrading an existing one.
- Master of Social Work (MSW), Counseling, Life Coaching, Pastoral
Counseling: Here, you may learn relevant psychological theories and techniques
ranging from Carl Jung's spiritual approach to family counseling, career and
employment counseling, to working with those less fortunate, to a hybrid that suits
your personal calling. The only caveat is that all degree courses must pertain to
spiritual enhancement and equality-building in our world.
- Ordination and Chaplaincy: Historically, our parent, The Love
Church Worldwide, founded the very first online fully-chartered
seminary. We ordain both women and men, and our American Chaplain
Training Institute offers Certified Professional Chaplain training for
those who may wish to serve in that capacity in a hospital, Hospice,
Prison, business situation, or to establish an independent spiritual
counseling practice.
- Environmental Studies: Our Department
- of Environmental Sciences offers a unique
approach to studying, understanding, and solving
the issues facing our endangered world. We can
no longer talk only of "endangered wetlands" or
"endangered species" when, in fact, our entire
planet is threatened by the climate changes that
we are just beginning to experience.
If you enroll in our Environmental Sciences
program, you will be afforded many different
study options. The choices you make will
mesh with your personal preferences and
your "calling" as a human being. All look at the
spiritual imperative of taking the Creator's
breathtakingly beautiful planet and working to
develop systems of sustainability to protect what
we still have and to restore what has been lost.
But, this requires many different skill sets, including actual field work in a swamp,
forests, farmlands or, perhaps, the seashore. Our troubled society also requires
environmentally savvy writers, lecturers. We need researchers to explore options for
saving our rapidly-dwindling aquifers, activists to work to make fracking of natural
gas safe, people to develop "green industries" to utilize renewable fuels and power
sources to radically reduce our dependence on non-renewable and politically-
vulnerable fossil fuels. And, with an increasing number of serious scientists predicting
a worldwide drought and the decimation of our food sources, we urgently need people
to work on new and more water-efficient ways of growing food...and ethical ways of
distributing it equally.
- Social Justice in our Human Affairs Program (HAP)
- Political - Cultural - Spiritual Sciences - Humanities
- Public Policy
- Ethics in a Changing World (from our Center for Ethical Studies)
- Learning Communities - The Power of Collaborative Study Groups
- Social Media - Unleashing its True Potential in Personal Lives
- Taking New Millennial Learning to "Out of The Box Living"
- Our Generation and That of our Parents: How our Differences are Our Strength
- Learning to Play! We're used to everything being planned - but Playing is Fun!
- Shared Cultural Experiences and the Individual
- Multi-tasking for Fun and Profit
- Managing Stress without Interrupting Life
- Importance of Words - Speaking and Listening: Integral Aspect of Living Well
- New Politics vs. the traditionally Entrenched Old Man in Congress for 35 Years
In addition to (totally online) Fast-Track lessons, you may do field study, internships,
or independent research. LESSON FEEDBACK MAY BE BY TEXT or IM
| Education Your Way!! at New Millenial College Seminary |
| Life offers so many choices! We hope you'll choose to have us journey with you! |
You learn differently than your parents did...
and we teach differently than the way your parents learned!
and we teach differently than the way your parents learned!
Education
delivered
your way!
delivered
your way!
| In traditional colleges, teachers "download" their knowledge into students' minds. WE, on the other hand, join our students in a process of the mutual quest for wisdom.... |
| We'll design your course load together, you and us as a team! |
| Numbers of Millennials enrolled in college |
U.S. National Center
for Education Statistics
for Education Statistics
By 2014, over 50% of all the employed people on earth will be Millennials. Think about it! |
| School for Social Policy |
| The New Millennial School for Social Policy is a collaboration of Saint James College Seminary and The Women's College Seminary |
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