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Where Is the Love? Students Eschew Campus Romance

Where Is the Love? Students Eschew Campus Romance. Abby Fritch And Tiffanie Heestand. College Romance. Campus romances are becoming a thing of the past Gone are the days of sorority houses and dorms being marked with candle-passing ceremonies signifying a new engagement

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Where Is the Love? Students Eschew Campus Romance

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  1. Where Is the Love?Students Eschew Campus Romance Abby Fritch And Tiffanie Heestand

  2. College Romance • Campus romances are becoming a thing of the past • Gone are the days of sorority houses and dorms being marked with candle-passing ceremonies signifying a new engagement • No longer are “The Old Pump” at Purdue University and “Kissing Tree” at Transylvania University major hot spots. • College life today has become competitive • Students are focused on careers • Many students aren’t going to college to look for their spouses anymore.

  3. Martial Hunting Ground • According to a study conducted in 1992 containing 3,432 adults • 23% of married couples reported meeting in school or college • While 15% reported work as the place they met their spouse

  4. Martial Hunting Ground • According to a 2006 Harris Interactive study of 2,985 adults • 14% of people who are married or in a relationship say they met in college or school • While 18% claim to have met at work

  5. Reasons • Researchers cite a couple of factors as the reason for the decline in married/dating couples meeting in college • Young adults are delaying marriage • 15 years ago the median age for first marriage for men 26.3 and women 24.1 • Today the median age for first marriage is 27.5 for men and 25.5 for women

  6. Reasons • Credential Inflation • An increase in the qualifications required for many skilled jobs • Flexibility to relocate freely • Ability to immerse themselves in new work • Educational Opportunities

  7. Relationships • College students today feel light relationships won’t compromise what they want to do in their future, such as where to go to grad school or what job they should take • Students today are having fun on group date • Also they find deep, but platonic male-female friendships are easier (more common)

  8. Dating • Concerned Parents need not worry, many young adults return to traditional dating after graduation • Young adults today want to find a quality person, good person to marry

  9. Stronger Marriages Forged on Campus or the Work World?

  10. Sue Shellenbarger’s Opinion • Concerned after she reported the fewer college students are finding their mates on campus, and report the office replaces school as the Number 1 place for pairing up. • Today’s numbers of young males not marrying till 27.5 and women not till 25.5 are the highest levels ever recorded by the Census Bureau since 1890 • This new trend toward marrying later is proceeding at a breakneck pace

  11. Sue Shellenbarger’s Opinion • Saw the same trend when she looked at her own family • Sue’s parents met in high school • Her older siblings met their spouses in undergraduate school • Sue waited until after she established her career and began working before she met and married her husband • Her three Gen-X kids followed in her footsteps and waited until they began working to met and marry their spouses • While her two Gen-Y kids, aged 17 and 20 claim they will wait even longer to get married

  12. Sue Shellenbarger’s Opinion • Feels college campuses should be the place where college students meet their potential life partners • College life allows you to observe each other as whole people across many contexts, including work, social, residential, and extracurricular life.

  13. Sue Shellenbarger’s Opinion • Feels the office romance tends to be shaped more often by a partners’ relative power, influence, job skills and/or status • Office lovers have less of an opportunity to get to know their partners in the broader context of an around-the-clock community • Office romances are often more pushed for spending time together than college romances

  14. Sue Shellenbarger’s Opinion • Maybe instead of focusing on where we met our spouses, we should think more deeply about why we choose them • In the end why we choose them should be the most important factor, not if you met them in college or at work

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