UC Irvine has been awarded a $1.1-million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to pilot a study that will analyze the value of a liberal arts education and how colleges measure student success.

More than 90 percent of employers rate written communication, critical thinking and problem solving as “very important” for the job success of new labor market entrants. —Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa ...

Two of the nation’s leading sociologists will share their insights on the current state of higher education at the spring Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking lecture at Rochester ...

If you think students are arriving at law school less prepared than in the past, it’s not just your imagination, according to Dr. Richard Arum. Today I heard Arum, the author of Academically Adrift, ...

After reading the Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa book Aspiring Adults Adrift, a sequel to their 2011 book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, I thought of the 1913 novel ...

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Federal and state appellate courts have become less favorable to student claims in school discipline cases even as perceptions about students’ legal entitlements ...

A broad and ambitious attempt to understand what students get out of higher education, both experientially and intellectually, took an important step this week at the University of California, Irvine.

Few higher-ed books of the last decade were as influential as Academically Adrift, the 2011 indictment of modern college culture by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa. It documented how little time ...

NEW YORK — An unprecedented study that followed several thousand undergraduates through four years of college found that large numbers didn't learn the critical thinking, complex reasoning and written ...

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Richard Schaefer and Bob Arum engaged a day of negotiations this week, related to a potential Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight next year, but don’t expect either one to divulge much about talks ...