Students are serious about social responsibility.THERE'S BEEN MUCH SAID ABOUT the Millennial Generation--they've had parents dote on them, praise them, and demand perfection in return. They are the next "great" generation, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. demographers, who have warned all who have gone before that members of this up-and-coming group are entering college and the workforce expecting instant gratification and the ability to make a difference before paying their dues. Apparently not enough attention has been paid to this new generation's sense of social responsibility. According to the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, 83 percent of the 264,000 incoming college freshmen surveyed in fall 2005 had volunteered during the previous 12 months. This is the highest percentage in the 40 years that CIRP CIRP Cooperative Institutional Research Program CIRP Circumcision Information and Resource Pages CIRP Center for Injury Research and Policy CIRP Coastal Inlets Research Program CIRP College International pour la Recherche en Productique (French) has been conducting its Freshman Survey. CIRP, which is part of the Higher Educational Research Institute, based at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , also reports that 66 percent of this same surveyed student group say it is very important to help others who are having difficulties--the highest percentage in 25 years. "The Indian Ocean Indian Ocean, third largest ocean, c.28,350,000 sq mi (73,427,000 sq km), extending from S Asia to Antarctica and from E Africa to SE Australia; it is c.4,000 mi (6,400 km) wide at the equator. It constitutes about 20% of the world's total ocean area. tsunami occurred during their high school senior year, and Hurricane Katrina hit the southern Gulf Region in August, as many students began college," says John Pryor of CIRP. "This cohort will likely have a special affinity for social responsibility as a result," adds Sylvia Hurtado, director of the research institute. Keeping in step with the trend, the Association of American Colleges and Universities  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . has launched a new phase of its social responsibility program. Its Core Commitments initiative, designed to foster personal and social responsibility on campuses, will use a new $2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation The John Templeton Foundation was established in 1987 by investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton; the current president is his son John M. Templeton, Jr. It is usually referred to simply as the Templeton Foundation. to help students and IHEs. The association and its Core Commitments initiative aim to interweave personal and social responsibility into academic life, explains Carol Geary Schneider Carol Geary Schneider has been president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities since 1998. Schneider received her B.A. in history from Mount Holyoke College, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude in 1967. She received her Ph.D. , AAC&U president. AAC&U is issuing a call for applications among colleges and universities and will select 20 to work as a consortium. They will be charged with figuring out how to include social responsibility and ethics in each undergraduate's learning. |
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