RICHARD ARUM "Learning During Unsettled Times: Embracing the Challenge" Fri., October 28, 2011 10:00 am The Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium

Richard Arum is professor in the Department of Sociology with a joint appointment in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. He is also director of the Education Research Program of the Social Science Research Council, where he oversaw the development of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, a research consortium designed to conduct ongoing evaluation of the New York City public schools. He is coauthor of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011), the author of Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority in American Schools (Harvard University Press, 2003), and co-editor of a comparative study on expansion, differentiation and access to higher education in fifteen countries, Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study (Stanford University Press, 2007). Arum received a Masters of Education in Teaching and Curriculum from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Richard Arum will present updated findings on students from the Social Science Research Council's Collegiate Learning Assessment Longitudinal Project. The project follows several thousand students at 30 U.S. institutions over time to examine inequality in collegiate experiences and learning patterns in U.S. higher education. The research focuses on disadvantaged groups of students, including students from racial/ethnic minority groups, less advantaged family backgrounds, non-English speaking homes, and racially segregated high schools. Results of earlier analysis of learning during the first two years of college - in Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (Chicago University Press, 2011) - will be extended by presentation of analysis of the complete four years of student longitudinal data (Fall 2005-Spring 2009) as well as focusing on how these students have subsequently fared post-graduation during the recent U.S. economic crisis (Spring 2010 and Spring 2011 survey results).

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