Aspiring adults adrift
Subtitle: tentative transitions of college graduates
By: Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
Contributors: Roksa, Josipa, author
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780226191157; 9780226197289
Subjects: College graduates; Higher Education; Attitudes; Public opinion; Social conditions; Employment
Description: "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 in finding decent jobs and developing stable romantic relationships, as well as in 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, the selectivity of institutions they attended, and their 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"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: College and emerging adults; title: Social and academic learning in college; title: Making it in the labor market; title: Parents, partners, and optimism about the future; title: A way forward.