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Country
  
United States

Pages
  
272

Originally published
  
2011

Page count
  
272

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Language
  
English

ISBN
  
978-0226028552

Author
  
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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses is a book written by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, published by the University of Chicago Press in January 2011.

Contents

The book examines the current state of higher education in the United States. The book and its findings received extensive national media coverage and sparked a debate about what undergraduate students learn once they get into college.

The research draws on transcript data, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, and survey responses from more than 2,300 undergraduates at twenty-four institutions in their first semester and again at the end of their second year. The analysis reveals that 45 percent of these students demonstrated no significant improvement in a range of skills—including critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing—during their first two years of college.

Reviews

  • Leef, George (25 January 2011). "No Work, All Play, No Job — Room for Debate". NYTimes.com. Archived from the original on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-15. 
  • Jaschik, Scott (18 January 2011). "News: 'Academically Adrift'". Inside Higher Ed. Archived from the original on 16 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-15. 
  • Glenn, David (13 February 2011). "News: Scholars Question New Book's Gloom on Education". Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2011-02-16. 
  • Bell, Steven (27 January 2011). "What Do We Do Now?". Library Journal. Retrieved 2011-02-16. 
  • The New Yorker
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