Conference Session

CPDD Session 2 - Professional Development - Where Are We Going?

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Kathryne Newton, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

age of 18 were only 51.5% non-HispanicWhite. These trends show a tremendously changing racial and ethnic make-up of our youngergenerations. From prior years data, we know in 2020, for all children under the age of 18, thenon-Hispanic White population is now the minority population, giving way to the collectivemajority population represented by all children not considered non-Hispanic White.From this perspective, it is clearly the millennial generation that is ushering in the nation’s futurediversity; with Gen Z that follows as the generation to solidify and further define the racial andethnic trend line.The data on changes in 18-34 year-olds from 2000 to 2015, a 15 year window, reflect there was anet loss of nearly one-quarter million white