By the year 2008, the pool of incoming freshmen will include the largest number of minority students in U.S. history. According to Bob Lay, Dean for Enrollment Management at Boston College, Generation Y students are curious, bright, and highly motivated scholars. At Boston College, the number of freshmen with Advanced Placement credits has risen by 119 percent. Accustomed to the Internet, Generation Y students expect and demand instant service. We're telling our professors they better use that laptop and start a website, because these freshmen want to hit the ground running.
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They are looking for meaning and spiritual development. Soon after, applications shot up from 2,500 to 3,500, the freshman pool doubled, and the number of students from outside the Philadelphia area increased by 50 percent. Promoting Diversity Caring about values means that these Jesuit institutions of higher learning have a moral imperative to promote diversity. Omaha's Creighton University includes this fee-waived application form in its alumni magazine, encouraging the school's graduates to get it into the hands of potential Creighton students. Of course, fostering diversity at USF has been comparatively easy since California is a minority-majority state.