Many recent college graduates struggle to transition into adulthood, and their alma maters must share some of the blame, argue the authors of Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates, scheduled for release this week.
The book is a follow-up to its authors’ 2011 hit, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. In their new book, published by the University of Chicago Press, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa tracked many of the same 2009 graduates they studied in their first book, compiling data on employment outcomes, living arrangements, relationships, and levels of civic engagement after college, among other things.
