Boomer Babies: How Generation Y Sees the World
Part one: COM students look at debt, work, gender, and race
"Get a Job: Changes in the Labor Market," by Dan Trudeau.
"Money, Money, Money: Graduating in Debt," by Lauren Gniazdowski.
"Progress? The Status of Blacks in College," by Diana Epstein.
"The Leaky Pipeline: Challenges for Women in Science," by Karen Rowan.
This spring, the students in College of Communication Associate Professor Anne Donohue’s advanced radio journalism course were asked to turn a critical eye on their generation, exploring their ideas about race and gender, work and money, sex and love, and technology — and to compare their perspectives with those of their baby-boomer parents. The series, “Generation Gap,” was featured on WBUR’s “World of Ideas” on Commencement day, Sunday, May 20, and can be heard in its entirety at the “Generation Gap” Web site.
In the first segment, Dan Trudeau (COM’07) looks at the changing labor market in “Get a Job,” Lauren Gniazdowski (COM’07) examines the effects of student-loan debt in “Money, Money, Money,” Karen Rowan (COM’07) assesses gender politics and progress in the sciences in “The Leaky Pipeline,” and Diana Epstein (COM’07) talks about the status of African-Americans in college in “Progress?” Click the audio players below to listen.