In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor s degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they re born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there? For a large proportion of students, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa s answer to that question is a definitive no. Their extensive research draws...
In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor s degree is now required for entry into a growing nu...
In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they're born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift: are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there?
For a large proportion of students, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's answer to that question is a definitive no. Their extensive research draws...
In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing nu...
Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses--and newspaper opinion pages--as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's 2011 landmark study of undergraduates' learning, socialization, and study habits, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. From the moment it was published, one thing was clear: no university could afford to ignore its well-documented and disturbing findings about the failings of undergraduate education. Now Arum and Roksa are back, and their new book follows the same cohort of undergraduates through the rest of...
Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses--and newspaper opinion pages--as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Ro...
