The team of Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa have written a follow-up book to their 2011 Academically Adrift. This one is entitled Aspiring Adults Adrift and the message is not encouraging. I suggest this short Wall Street Journal video, in which Daniel Henninger discusses the book with Professor Arum. Key point in my view is Arum’s contention that colleges mostly treat students as consumers and “do everything to keep them happy.” The problem, of course, is that keeping students happy blends very poorly with rigorous academic work. Thus, we have large numbers of graduates who lack the skills, attitudes and disposition necessary both for success in the labor force and also to be responsible citizens.