Chapter 8: Supporting Black Millennial Graduate Students At Hbcus

In the end, the Millennials from traditionally underrepresented groups, though different in some aspects than their White counterparts, will nonetheless, as projected, achieve much greatness. They will, as our generation did and all the previous generations have done, take their rightful places as leaders

—Aretha F. Marbley, taken from Diverse Millennial Students in College (2011, pp. 280-281)

Interest in the generational cohort we have identified as Millennials has continued to flourish in both academic and non-academic settings. What some have referred to as a “cottage industry,” the sifting and sorting of individuals based on certain group attributes and characteristics that for all