“Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges: College personnel everywhere are struggling with students’ increased neediness.”

In this article, Peter Gray Ph.D  states, “We have raised a generation of young people who have not been given the opportunity to learn how to solve their own problems.They have not been given the opportunity to get into trouble and find their own way out, to experience failure and realize they can survive it, to be called bad names by others and learn how to respond without adult intervention. So now, here’s what we have: Young people,18 years and older, going to college still unable or unwilling to take responsibility for themselves, still feeling that if a problem arises they need an adult to solve it.”

How does this impact our college and our classrooms?  What strategies can we as a college use to help our students who may not have the skills they need to be successful?