![]() ![]() ON CAMPUS: I don’t think it would be a complete spoiler alert to say your most recent findings are grim. He had a position that was not full-time, he was making around $20,000. Like many of the graduates in our study, two years later he was struggling to find success. Can you tell us about him and his experience?ĪRUM: Nathan is a student who graduated from a public university with a 3.9 GPA as a business major. ON CAMPUS: You open your book talking about this recent graduate who you call Nathan. Arum tells On Campus that to help students succeed in the transition to the working world, schools need to renew their focus on academic rigor. Last week, PBS NewsHour’s Rethinking College series looked at how colleges and universities are responding to calls for greater access and better outcomes for students. Arum recently spoke with On Campus, the higher education desk at Boston’s WGBH about why these graduates are slow to take on all of the responsibilities of adulthood and struggling to find full-time work that pays well. It follows the same students after graduation and concludes that schools focus on social life rather than academics, and that levies a high tariff on young adults. Their sequel is called Aspiring Adults Adrift. Their book, Academically Adrift, shocked the academy and provoked angry responses. Three years ago, sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa found that college students learn little while in school. ![]()
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