Researchers Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa concluded in Academically Adrift that most students float through college without learning much in the way of critical thinking.
This realization can hit recent college graduates hard as they find themselves floating outside of their college campus bubbles for the first time in years.
He was the spoiled brat with the college degree, floating around all summer in his parents' swimming pool, embarking on a jaded affair with next-door neighbour Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft) and realising almost too late that he has fallen in love with her daughter Elaine Katherine Rosss).
There was an email floating around at a college in VA among fraternity brothers stating intentions to "get the girls drunk and get it on".
At my university, the students usually don't come from wealthy households in which floating the kids a college or business loan is "no problem".
One proposal floated on various college campuses to combat these issues -- to change the national policy that blocks sororities from even having the option to host a kegger and gain control of social events -- has little support from the American public.
In a report for the coalition, former Labour minister Alan Milburn is floating a similar premium for colleges.
Visit a college campus and see how many fake IDs are floating around, how many drunken mistakes thousands of college students make on a weekly basis.
There is a lot of talk floating about in cyberspace regarding crazed electoral college scenarios and the potential 'spoiler' effect of the Evan McMullin candidacy in Utah.
There is a lot of job-search advice floating around the internet these days, especially for college students and recent grads.
