While the profile of today's traditional college student may portray sometimes difficult challenges, it does represent a student who is exposed to a global world, is willing to implement new viewpoints and ideas and desires to achieve a successful career. But the complexities of this generation of student blended with the competitive university structures make this more difficult that perhaps it seems. Secondly, utilize the internship program required in many interior design programs as an opportunity to critically analyze the student's performance. When the internship director calls for feedback, do not feel timid to analyze that student's performance. Address the attitudes, strengths and weaknesses that you see in the young designers that you hire.
Students listen to educators like they listen to their parents.
Finally, and most importantly, never lower your standards. While the demographic and psychographic profile reveals a self-centered attitude in students, they also are faced with an increasingly complex world, violence, stress, unstable family situations and economic pressures. It means repeating a course or delaying graduation. However difficult, maintaining the standard is perhaps the only way that the student will learn and change the behavior that caused the situation. In practice, this may translate into the loss of responsibility or the job.