Half Baked Effort Against US News & World Report
I am delighted to see more than a dozen college and university presidents gather together to ban responding to key parts of the US News & World Report onerous survey rankings.
But their ideas are half baked. And here is why…
To combat the influence of the portion of the rankings on “reputation” is a wonderful idea, but the college leaders are offering no concrete alternatives to the practice – and we wonder why they endorse the remainder of the survey. We are ready to wager that the move led by small school presidents will be a minor blip on the higher ed screen, and no more.
What our nation’s colleges and universities need is the leadership of a major organization – ACE, AAU, NASULGC or the others in the “big three” to take a stance on US News and show the way. But what are the odds?