media coverage and public scholarship

UCI-MUST and measuring undergraduate success

Chronicle of Higher Education. 2023 – “A research university investigates itself”  (May 24).

PBS Newshour. 2020 – “As the pandemic upends higher education, is residential college worth the cost?” (July 28).

Chronicle of Higher Education. 2019 – “An Author of ‘Academically Adrift’ Strikes Again” (October 2).

Inside Higher Ed. 2019 – “Richard Arum and UC Irvine Study Student Experiences and Outcomes” (September 26).

Los Angeles Times. 2018 – “UCI get $1.1-million grant to pilot study on value of liberal arts education” (December 10).

Chronicle of Higher Education. 2018 – “Dean at UC-Irvine Seeks to Solve Higher Ed’s Existential Crisis with Data – Lots of It” (November 27).

Higher education access and the value of residential college

New York Times. Arum, Richard and Mitchell Stevens. 2023 – “For Most College Students, Affirmative Action Was Never Enough,” (July 3).

New York Times. Arum, Richard and Mitchell Stevens. 2020 – “What is a College Education in the Time of Coronavirus?” (March 18).

Higher education learning and Academically Adrift

Times Higher Education. 2018 – “Richard Arum: U.S. Undergraduate Education is Declining and Failing,” (July 11).

Chronicle of Higher Education. 2016 – “What Should a Major Teach? ‘Adrift Authors Offer Answers." (June 3).

New York Times. 2015. David Brooks, “How Adulthood Happens” (June 12).

New York Times. 2014. Kevin Carey, “The Economic Price of Colleges’ Failure” (September 2).

New York Times. 2014. Frank Bruni, “Demanding More from College,” (September 6).