Academically Adrift Limited Learning on College Campuses

Name: Academically Adrift Limited Learning on College Campuses
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ISBN: 9780226028569

ISBN-10: 0226028569

ISBN-13: 9780226028569

Edition: 2010

Authors: Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa

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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 byAcademically 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 on survey responses, transcript data, and, for the first time, the state-of-the-art Collegiate Learning Assessment,…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Richard Arum is Professor of Sociology and Education, New York University.



Acknowledgments



College Cultures and Student Learning



Origins and Trajectories



Pathways through Colleges Adrift



Channeling Students' Energies toward Learning



A Mandate for Reform


Methodological Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index