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The Anxious Student
(JESHOOTS-com, 2018) By Dr. Michelle Bianco This blog post examines the rising anxiety among college students through the work of Jonathan Haidt’sThe Anxious Generation (2024), which attributes escalating mental health challenges to the digital “great rewiring’ of childhood. Drawing on research by Pennebaker and Smyth (2016), Ramadhanti et al. (2019), and Vidrine-Isbell (2025), this post highlights…
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Insights from a Student Survey Across Generations
By David Healey This blog post shares the results of a voluntary survey of composition students about generational differences and perceptions in the classroom. To provide context, there are definitions of the generations and some of their shared experiences and traits. Suggestions are made for instructors who want to deepen these connections between generations in…
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