We love our college students! But just who are they? Every year at back-to-school time, the Beloit College Mindset List clues us in with droll observations about the newest kids on campus: Freshmen who, we learn, have never licked a postage stamp,...

We love our college students! But just who are they? Every year at back-to-school time, the Beloit College Mindset List clues us in with droll observations about the newest kids on campus: Freshmen who, we learn, have never licked a postage stamp, and who were born the same year as Google. Faculty who assume they’ll remember Watergate or the Cold War will have to backtrack and explain; and remember if you mention Jacques Cousteau, Mother Teresa or Notorious B.I.G., they all died before the class of 2019 was born. Keep up, faculty! As Beloit says, “We don’t just teach courses. We teach students.”