Life after College: The Challenging Transitions of the "Academically Adrift" Cohort

Autor/inn/en	Roksa, Josipa; Arum, Richard
Titel	Life after College: The Challenging Transitions of the "Academically Adrift" Cohort
Quelle	In: Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 44 (2012) 4, S.8-14 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-1383
DOI	10.1080/00091383.2012.691857
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Unemployment; Debt (Financial); College Graduates; Credit (Finance); Critical Thinking; Thinking Skills; Writing Skills; Labor Market; Graduate Study; Political Attitudes; Consciousness Raising; Current Events; Comparative Analysis; Demography; White Students; Hispanic American Students; African American Students; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitslosigkeit; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Credit; Kredit; Kritisches Denken; Denkfähigkeit; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Bewusstseinsbildung; Aktualität; Demografie; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; USA
Abstract	From the housing crisis to high debt, from stagnating incomes to high unemployment, the Great Recession has touched most aspects of many people's lives. College graduates, a highly educated group often insulated from the worst of economic challenges, have not been spared. Their unemployment rate reached 9.1 percent in 2010--the highest annual rate on record for college graduates aged 20 to 24 (Project on Student Debt, 2011). These economic challenges have been compounded by high student-loan debt: Student borrowing has risen to $100 billion annually, more than doubling after inflation over the past decade, surpassing national credit card debt and contributing to a total US student-loan debt approaching one trillion dollars. In this study, the authors explore how recent college graduates have navigated transitions into adult roles in this time of economic crisis. While these transitions are often rife with difficulties, college graduates today are facing unique obstacles in cutting a path toward independence and economic self-reliance. The authors highlight the importance of academically rigorous college experiences in this discussion. Their results indicate that the graduates in their sample who demonstrated high academic engagement and growth in college and those who exhibited high levels of critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing (as assessed by the Collegiate Learning Assessment) at the end of college faced much smoother transitions to adulthood. (Contains 11 resources.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10