Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

Linda's race us not mentioned but #POC don't need it to be. Vehko sees herself in Linda, who is not tech savvy but, unlike other 'millennials,' Vehko says Linda is not 'angry, frustrated and confused with my course and with me.' Never mind Vehko's article is about her own anger

Academics reproduce Whiteness in many ways. For White academics & students sharing this because they agree with Vehko, same as for White academics & students sharing this (rightly) put off by poor attitudes towards students, neither group has thought about what this does to #POC

Some White people are going to great pains to show Vehko exerts conservative generational stereotypes but they will never see themselves in Vehko who lumps all youth into the label 'millennial' yet papering over racism & other discrimination of minorities in academia

In Vehko's article, a mid-20s Black man is criticised for working too hard (likely due to economic necessity) same as a Saudi man in his 30s is critiqued for having kids (he classifies as a mature age student BTW). Only the White woman mature age student is the ideal.

Whiteness dominates academia in much the same way it does on Twitter discussions about this article, and other fields. When we ignore whiteness we do so at the peril of the biases we bring to class/ lab/ workplace, writing off the potential of #POC, whatever their generation.

For those who have avoided reading the piece doing the rounds due to paywall/ registration, here's a free/ open access version: http://world.edu/millennials-the-age-of-entitlement/ …