News
Recent Coverage: Improving Quality in American Higher Education
- Chronicle of Higher Education, Q&A: "What Should a Major Teach? 'Adrift' Authors Offer Answers"
Inside Higher Ed, Commentary: "Plan to Define and Test What Students Should Know" - Inside Higher Ed, Op-Ed: "A Faculty Stand on Assessment"
Recent Coverage: Aspiring Adults Adrift
- NY Times, Op-Ed: "How Adulthood Happens"
- Washington Post: "Colleges Drift Away From Their Academic Priorities"
- Wall Street Journal: "Are Colleges Producing Career-Ready Graduates?"
- NY Times, The Upshot: "The Economic Price of Colleges' Failures"
- NY Times, Op-Ed: "Demanding More From College"
- Chronicle of Higher Education: "'Adrift' After College: How Graduates Fail"
- Chronicle of Higher Education, Commentary Section: "Let's Ask More of Our Students--and of Ourselves"
- Times Higher Education: "Interview with the Authors of Aspiring Adults Adrift"
- Vox: "Why Hasn't the Class of 2009 Grown Up?"
- Money: "3 Ways to Make Sure a Costly College Degree Pays Off"
Recent Coverage: Academically Adrift
- Inside Higher Education: "Are They Learning?"
- Newsweek: "What Are Colleges Teaching Students? The Answer Is Disturbing"
- The Guardian: "Universities Say No To New Ranking"
- Times Higher Education: "'Learning Gain': Did Students Bulk Up in Mental Muscle?"
- NY Times, Education: "How to Raise a University's Profile: Pricing and Packaging"
- NY Times, Op-Ed: "How to Hold Colleges Accountable"
Op-Eds, Interviews, and Commentary
- The Conversation: "Is College Worth It? It This Even the Right Question?"
- NY Times Room for Debate: “The Downsized College Graduate”: Richard Arum weighs in on recent graduates’ struggles in the labor market.
- NY Times Room for Debate: “Why Look Down on a Business Degree?”: Richard Arum discusses the lack of rigor in undergraduate business programs.
- NY Times Op-Ed: “Your So-Called Education”: Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa urge for an increase in academic rigor in US higher education.
Reviews of Aspiring Adults Adrift
- Review in American Journal of Sociology
- Review in The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Review in Inside Higher Education
- Review in The New York Review of Books
Reviews of Academically Adrift
- Review in The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Review in The New Yorker
- Review in The New York Review of Books
Reviews of Documenting Uncertain Times
- Review in The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Review in Inside Higher Education