The Beloit College Mindset List™ was initially a witty way of saying
"watch your references," and has turned into a globally reported and
utilized guide to the intelligent but unprepared adolescent
consciousness. It is requested by thousands of readers, reprinted in
hundreds of print and electronic publications, and used for a wide
variety of purposes.
About the Authors:
Keefer Professor Tom McBride of Beloit College
teaches Milton, Shakespeare, and critical theory. He has team-taught a
variety of interdisciplinary courses with both classicists and
anthropologists. His interests in comparative discourse have most
recently led him to an extensive project on Darwinian approaches to the
study of literature. With Professor Shawn Gillen, he is co-founder of
the department's new program in Rhetoric and Discourse. He has
published both critical essays and creative non-fiction in journals as
diverse as Texas Studies in Language and Literature, The Baker Street Journal, and Two Cities.
For four years, he was a popular commentator on language for Wisconsin
Public Radio. On campus he is known for the twice-yearly Keefer
Lectures on a variety of subjects. Most recently he has authored essays
for britannica.com on Raymond Carver and Allan Bloom, and for open
democracy.net on Saul Bellow. He is an editor of the Beloit College Mindset List™.
Ron Nief is emeritus director of public affairs at Beloit College in
Wisconsin, stepping down this year after 14 years of service. His work
at Beloit concludes four decades communicating the work of higher
education starting with his alma mater, Boston College, in the
late 1960s and including Brandeis and Clark universities, and
Middlebury College. He is the editor of several books and has written
for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Gannett Newspapers and National Public Radio's Marketplace.
The recipient of a Silver Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society
of America he also received a Distinguished Service Award from the
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. He created the Mindset List™ in 1998 and joins Tom McBride in many media appearances and talks around the country throughout the year.
