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February 2012

February 1^st 2012: CBS News has "really bad news for college slackers" in a story highlighting new study by Education Research Program

January 2012

January 25^th 2012: Education Research Program releases a follow-up report to the highly discussed book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
January 6^th 2012: Program Director Richard Arum fifth-most influential education scholar nationwide, according to Education Week

September 2011

September 15^th 2011: Academically Adrift, co-authored by Program Director Richard Arum, reviewed in AAUP's Academe

June 2011

June 2^nd 2011: National press continue to focus on Academically Adrift, co-written by SSRC Program Director Richard Arum

March 2011

March 7^th 2011: In "College the Easy Way," NY Times columnist Bob Herbert discusses the conclusions of Academically Adrift, a book co-authored by Program Director Richard Arum

February 2011

February 9^th 2011: Program Director Richard Arum interviewed on NPR about Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses

January 2011

January 18^th 2011: Education Research Program report expands on startling findings in Academically Adrift and offers policy recommendations (PDF)
January 18^th 2011: Media coverage of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Program Director Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa

October 2010

October 20^th 2010: “Academically Adrift,” Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s book on findings from the CLA Longitudinal Study, to be released January 18, 2010.

September 2010

September 19^th 2010: Richard Arum quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education article “A Measure of Education Is Put to the Test.”

August 2009

August 17^th 2009: Educational sociologist Sara Goldrick-Rab, writing in Brainstorm, says of CLA Longitudinal Study led by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa: “Cool study–one to keep an eye on.” Goldrick-Rab attended Arum and Roksa’s talk at the ASA annual meeting.

March 2009

March 24^th 2009: Richard Arum quoted in NYT article “Strip-Search Case Tests How Far Schools Can Go”

November 2008

November 18^th 2008: Richard Arum speaks on restoring order and respect in public schools in a NewTalk.org online panel
November 7^th 2008: SSRC releases initial findings of CLA Study.

October 2008

October 29^th 2008: SSRC work results in new Research Alliance for NYC Schools, to be housed at NYU.

April 2007

April 22^nd 2007: Richard Arum comments on sociology of school shootings on VOA program about Va. Tech massacre.

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