Aspiring Adults Adrift


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Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses—and newspaper opinion pages—as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s 2011 landmark study of undergraduates’ learning, socialization, and study habits, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. From the moment it was published, one thing was clear: no university could afford to ignore its well-documented and disturbing findings about the failings of undergraduate education. Now Arum and Roksa are back, and their new book follows the same cohort of undergraduates through the rest of their college careers and out into the working world. Built on interviews and detailed surveys of almost a thousand recent college graduates from a diverse range of colleges and universities, Aspiring Adults Adrift reveals a generation facing a difficult transition to adulthood. Recent graduates report trouble finding decent jobs and developing stable romantic relationships, as well as assuming civic and financial responsibility—yet at the same time, they remain surprisingly hopeful and upbeat about their prospects. Analyzing these findings in light of students’ performance on standardized tests of general collegiate skills, selectivity of institutions attended, and choice of major, Arum and Roksa not only map out the current state of a generation too often adrift, but enable us to examine the relationship between college experiences and tentative transitions to adulthood. Sure to be widely discussed, Aspiring Adults Adrift will compel us once again to re-examine the aims, approaches, and achievements of higher education.




Tentative


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When N-fast-talker, quote-collector and head-turner-asks an impossible question before falling asleep on Estrella's shoulder during a Model Government conference, Ella realises two things: one, they look impossibly similar; and two, N is the girl that she would very much like to be. Cue road trip, love triangle, and all the wonderful things that make up teen fiction-but teen fiction with a twist. Somewhere between the works of John Green and Sarah Dessen is "Tentative," the debut novel of Anna J Leader. Awarded the International Prize for the prestigious Sony Young Movellist of the Year Award in 2013 (judged by bestselling author Malorie Blackman), "Tentative" has been called "extremely well-written and innovative" by the staff of the website which co-hosted the award. Anna is ecstatic that she has had the chance to publish this semi-autobiographical novel about European teenagers in the International School system that she knows so well. She hopes that you read it with low expectations, and if nothing else, it has a happy ending.




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