{"id":706,"date":"2018-08-21T13:44:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T17:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=706"},"modified":"2018-08-21T13:44:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T17:44:56","slug":"the-mindset-list-for-the-class-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/08\/21\/the-mindset-list-for-the-class-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mindset List for the Class of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20 years ago Ron Nief, emeritus Director of Public Affairs, at Beloit College created the Mindset List. Every August since then the <em>Beloit Mindset List<\/em> has been a feature of higher education in the US. It\u2019s been maligned (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beloitmindlessness.com\/2018\/08\/19\/more-of-the-same\/\">http:\/\/www.beloitmindlessness.com\/2018\/08\/19\/more-of-the-same\/<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beloitmindlessness.com\/2018\/08\/21\/here-we-go-again\/\">http:\/\/www.beloitmindlessness.com\/2018\/08\/21\/here-we-go-again\/<\/a>) and it\u2019s been parodied (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/a-look-at-the-class-of-2019-1819592320\">https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/a-look-at-the-class-of-2019-1819592320<\/a>), but as I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2016\/08\/26\/beloit-mindset-list-2020\/\">a couple of years ago<\/a> \u201cI always get a kick out of looking it over. It reminds me of how old I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a couple of years older now than I was a couple of years ago, and I still get a kick out of looking the list over. Here are a few of the items that I found especially striking:<sup><a id=\"ffn1\" href=\"#fn1\" class=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among the iconic figures never alive in their lifetime are Victor Borge, Charles Schulz, and the original Obi-Wan Kenobi Alec Guinness. <em><strong>That last one really hurts. I remember seeing the original in a movie theater.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>They have grown up afraid that a shooting could happen at their school, too.<\/li>\n<li>Presidential candidates winning the popular vote and then losing the election are not unusual.<\/li>\n<li>There has never been an Enron.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It you want to read all 60, here\u2019s the link: <a href=\"http:\/\/themindsetlist.com\/2018\/08\/beloit-college-mindset-list-class-2022\/\">http:\/\/themindsetlist.com\/2018\/08\/beloit-college-mindset-list-class-2022\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol id=\"footnotes\">\n<li id=\"fn1\">The comments in bold italic are my commentary. <a href=\"#ffn1\">&#8617;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 years ago Ron Nief, emeritus Director of Public Affairs, at Beloit College created the Mindset List. Every August since then the Beloit Mindset List has been a feature of&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/08\/21\/the-mindset-list-for-the-class-of-2022\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}