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1990s movement

Reed College

During the 1990s, three educational institutions in the United States were involved in a movement to boycott college rankings. The first, Reed College, refused in 1995 to participate in U.S. News and World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges. Reed's concern intensified with disclosures in 1994 by the Wall Street Journal about institutions flagrantly manipulating data in order to move up in the rankings in U.S. News and other popular college guides. This led Reed's then-president Steven Koblik to inform the editors of U.S. News that he didn't find their project credible, and that the college would not be returning any of their surveys." ^[1] For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Reed College is a private, independent liberal arts college located in Portland, Oregon. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ...

Rolling Stone, in its 16 October 1997 issue, argued that Reed's rankings were artificially decreased by U.S. News after they stopped sending data to U.S. News and World Report. ^[2] Reed has also made the same claim. ^[3] In discussing Reed's decision, President Colin Diver wrote in an article for the November 2005 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, "by far the most important consequence of sitting out the rankings game, however, is the freedom to pursue our own educational philosophy, not that of some newsmagazine." ^[4] This article is about the magazine. ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... Colin Diver Colin Diver is currently the President of Reed College in Portland, Oregon. ... Look up November in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ...

Stanford University, FUNC, and Alma College

Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) Vice-President, Nicholas Thompson, founded FUNC or "Forget U.S. News Coalition" in 1996 as a show of support for Reed College's decision not to participate in the U.S. News and World Report survey. ^[5], ^[6] FUNC eventually spread to other colleges and universities and was comprised of a "group of students at universities across the country who argue that ranking something as complex and variable as a college education with a single number is an oversimplification. FUNC claims that the process makes college administrations focus on numerical rankings rather than on educating students." ^[7] FUNC also involved then-Stanford President Gerhard Casper. On 23 September 1996, Casper sent a letter to James Fallows, editor of U.S. News & World Report, stating, "As the president of a university that is among the top-ranked universities, I hope I have the standing to persuade you that much about these rankings - particularly their specious formulas and spurious precision - is utterly misleading." ^[8] Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ... Reed College is a private, independent liberal arts college located in Portland, Oregon. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... Gerhard Casper (born 1937) is a constitutional scholar who is currently a faculty member at Stanford University. ... September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...

In January 1997, then-president of Alma College, Alan Stone, asked 480 colleges to boycott the U.S. News and World Report Rankings due to the peer assessment survey which counts for 25% of a college's ranking. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, in 1996, Alma College surveyed 158 colleges about the rankings. The result of the survey indicated that "84 per cent of the respondents admitted that they were unfamiliar with some of the institutions they had been asked to rank. Almost 44 per cent indicated that they 'tended to leave responses for unfamiliar schools blank.' " Stone stated, "this makes me wonder just how many votes are being considered for each school's academic-reputation ranking." ^[9], ^[10] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alma College is a selective, private, liberal arts college located in the small city of Alma in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper that is a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and administration. ...

In February 1997, Stanford University contemplated following both Reed and Alma by not filling out the ranking survey, a move advocated by FUNC. ^[11] On 18 April 1997, Casper issued a letter critical of U.S. News and World Report college rankings titled "An alternative to the U.S. News and World Report College Survey"^[12] Casper's letter circulated among college presidents and led to a decision by Stanford that it will "submit objective data to U.S. News, but will withhold subjective reputational votes." ^[13] Stanford also announced at this time that it would post information about the University on its website. ^[14] In 1998, Stanford posted an alternative database on its website, stating: "This page is offered in contrast to commercial guides that purport to "rank" colleges; such rankings are inherently misleading and inaccurate. Stanford believes the following information, presented without arbitrary formulas, provides a better foundation for prospective students and their families to begin comparing and contrasting schools." .^[15] It has since been posted annually as the "Stanford University Common Data Set."^[16] FUNC eventually disbanded and Stanford currently participates in the survey. ^[17] This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 18 is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ...

2006 Maclean's boycott

In September 2006, a number of universities in Canada jointly refused to participate in the Maclean’s University Rankings survey. The president of the University of Alberta, Indira Samarasekera, commented that, "Canadian universities are listening with great interest as the call to boycott U.S. News & World Report rankings continues to increase in volume among our colleagues to the south. Many of our American colleagues say that they would like to resist the rankings, but fear it can’t be done, especially if only a few institutions act. I write to let you know that institutions can take on the rankings. About a year ago, a growing number of Canadian institutions began to raise the same alarm, ultimately resulting in 25 of our 90+ institutions — including many of our leading universities — banding together to take just such a stand against the fall rankings issue of Maclean's, our Canadian equivalent [...] It’s time to question these third-party rankings that are actually marketing driven, designed to sell particular issues of a publication with repurposing of their content into even higher sales volume special editions with year-long shelf life." ^[18] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The Macleans ranking takes a measure of the undergraduate experience, comparing universities in three peer groupings. ... The University of Alberta (U of A) is a public coeducational research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ... Dr. Indira Samarasekera Dr. Indira V. Samarasekera, OC, (born 1952) is currently President of the University of Alberta. ... The Macleans ranking takes a measure of the undergraduate experience, comparing universities in three peer groupings. ...

2007 movement

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Sarah Lawrence College

In 2007, some educators in the United States began to question the impact of rankings on the college admissions process, due in part to the 11 March 2007 Washington Post article "The Cost of Bucking College Rankings" by Dr. Michele Tolela Myers (the President of Sarah Lawrence College). As Sarah Lawrence College dropped its SAT test score submission requirement for its undergraduate applicants in 2003 ^[19] (thus joining the SAT optional movement for undergraduate admission), SLC does not have SAT data to send to U.S. News for its national survey. Of this decision, Myers states, "We are a writing-intensive school, and the information produced by SAT scores added little to our ability to predict how a student would do at our college; it did, however, do much to bias admission in favor of those who could afford expensive coaching sessions.^[20] (at present, Sarah Lawrence is the only American college that completely disregards SAT scores in its admission process^[21]). Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... In higher education, college and university rankings are listings of universities and liberal arts colleges in an order determined by any combination of factors. ... College admissions in the United States play an important sociological role, determining (in part) the quality of education a person will receive as well as his or her career track. ... March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (71st in leap years). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... ... Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college located in metropolitan New York City, about a thirty-minute train ride north of Manhattan. ... Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college located in metropolitan New York City, about a thirty-minute train ride north of Manhattan. ... Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college located in metropolitan New York City, about a thirty-minute train ride north of Manhattan. ... The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. ... A liberal arts college is an institution of higher education found in the United States, offering programs in the liberal arts at the post-secondary level. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... College admissions or university admission is the process through which students enter post-secondary education at universities and colleges. ...

As a result of this policy, in the same Washington Post article, Dr. Myers stated that: "I was recently informed by the director of data research at U.S. News, the person at the magazine who has a lot to say about how the rankings are computed, that absent students' SAT scores, the magazine will calculate the college's ranking by assuming an arbitrary average SAT score of one standard deviation (roughly 200 points) below the average score of our peer group. In other words, in the absence of real data, they will make up a number. He made clear to me that he believes that schools that do not use SAT scores in their admission process are admitting less capable students and therefore should lose points on their selectivity index." ^[22][23]

Myers further stated that "several faculty members and deans suggested that perhaps it was time to stop playing ranking roulette and opt out of the survey." ^[24] Myers next argued that at the NEAIR 33rd Annual Conference ( North East Association for Institutional Research) in 2006, a talk given by U.S. News, ^[25] "indicated that if a school stops sending data, the default assumption will be that it performs one standard deviation below the mean on numerous factors for which U.S. News can't find published data. Again, making up the numbers it can't get. The message is clear. Unless we are willing to be badly misrepresented, we had better send the information the magazine wants." ^[26][27]

Response from U.S. News

U.S. News and World Report issued a response to this article on 12 March 2007 which stated: "Sarah Lawrence's decision is unique, and the magazine's handling of it is still under consideration. Some colleges have made SAT or ACT scores optional in the admissions process, but to our knowledge, no other major college has decided to disregard them completely. Our rankings are painstakingly tabulated, using the best data available. U.S. News data researchers regularly participate in briefings and conferences where the most complicated nuances of the process are discussed with the ranked institutions. We regularly adjust to changes in the educational environment, and we plan to address this circumstance in a similar manner." ^[28] U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Letter to colleges

As reported by TIME magazine ^[29] and The Christian Science Monitor, ^[30] a letter dated May 10, 2007 was sent to college presidents in the United States. The letter does not ask for for a full boycott but rather: A pocket watch, a device used to tell time Look up time in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is an international newspaper published daily, Monday through Friday. ...

while we believe colleges and universities may want to cooperate in providing data to publications for the purposes of rankings, we believe such data provision should be limited to data which is collected in accord with clear, shared professional standards (not the idiosyncratic standards of any single publication), and to data which is required to be reported to state or federal officials or which the institution believes (in accord with good accountability) should routinely be made available to any member of the public who seeks it. ^[31]

Instead, it asks presidents not to participate in the "reputational survey" portion of the overall survey (this section accounts for 25% of the total rank and asks college presidents to give their subjective opinion of other colleges). The letter also asks presidents not to use the rankings as a form of publicity:

Among other reasons, we believe [...] rankings: imply a false precision and authority that is not warranted by the data they use;obscure important differences in educational mission in aligning institutions on a single scale;say nothing or very little about whether students are actually learning at particular colleges or universities;encourage wasteful spending and gamesmanship in institutions' pursuing improved rankings;overlook the importance of a student in making education happen and overweight the importance of a university's prestige in that process; and degrade for students the educational value of the college search process. We ask you to make the following two commitments: 1. Refuse to fill out the U.S. News and World Report reputational survey. 2. Refuse to use the rankings in any promotional efforts on behalf of your college or university, and more generally, refuse to refer to the rankings as an indication of the quality of your college or university."^[32]

12 college and university presidents (Bethany, Dickinson, Drew, Earlham, Heritage, Lafayette, Marlboro, Southwestern, both St. John's Colleges, Trinity Washington University, and Wheelock) signed the letter in early May. ^[33] These colleges and universities were joined by 15 more (College of the Southwest, Colorado, Denison, Eckerd, Furman, McDaniel, Missouri Baptist, Moravian, Naropa, Lewis & Clark College, Northwestern University, Ohio Wesleyan, Philander Smith, Shimer, Unity, and Washington & Jefferson) in mid- May. ^[34] Images of Bethany College, 1904 Bethany College, is a private college located in Bethany, West Virginia. ... A mermaid sits atop Dickinson Colleges Old West. ... DREW SUCKS ASS! Drew University is a small, private university located in Madison, New Jersey. ... Earlham College is a national, selective Quaker liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. ... Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by the citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832. ... Marlboro College is a small alternative liberal-arts college in Marlboro, Vermont, USA. // Marlboro College was founded in 1946 by returning World War II veterans on Potash Hill in Marlboro, Vermont. ... Southwestern University is a private, four-year, undergraduate, liberal arts college located in Georgetown, Texas, USA. Founded in 1840, Southwestern is the oldest university in Texas. ... St. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Wheelock College is an institution of higher learning located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... CSWs Seal College of the Southwest is a private non-denominational four-year educational institution located in Hobbs, New Mexico. ... The Colorado College is a private four-year, co-educational liberal arts college located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ... Denison University is a private liberal arts and sciences college in Granville, Ohio, approximately 30 miles (50 km) east of Columbus. ... Eckerd College is a private 4-year coeducational liberal arts college at the southernmost tip of St. ... The Bell Tower Furman University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian liberal arts university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. ... McDaniel College is a small, private college of the liberal arts and sciences in Westminster, Maryland, located 30 miles northwest of Baltimore, with a branch college in Budapest, Hungary. ... Missouri Baptist University is a coeducational university located in St. ... Moravian College is a private liberal arts college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. ... Naropa University is a private, liberal arts university in Boulder, Colorado, which was founded in 1974 by Chögyam Trungpa. ... Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. ... Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. ... Ohio Wesleyan University (also known as Wesleyan or OWU) is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. ... Philander Smith College is a private, historically black college that is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, and located in Little Rock, Arkansas. ... Shimer College is a liberal arts college in Chicago, Illinois which is best known for its small enrollment and its Great Books curriculum. ... Unity College is a private, liberal arts college located 35 Southwest of Bangor, Maine and 25 miles from the Maine Coast, in the village of Unity. ... Washington and Jefferson College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college located in Washington, Pennsylvania. ...

Annapolis Group meeting

The Annapolis Group, which represents over 100 liberal arts colleges, published an article on their website in 2004, called "Liberal Arts College Presidents Speak Out on College Rankings." The article included statements made by the presidents of Dickinson, Reed, Puget Sound, St. John's College, Hamilton, Earlham, Hendrix, Colgate, Washington & Jefferson, Centre, Ursinus, Connecticut, Kenyon, Mt. Holyoke, and Skidmore. ^[35] The Annapolis Group is a nonprofit alliance of the nation’s leading independent liberal arts colleges. ... A liberal arts college is an institution of higher education found in the United States, offering programs in the liberal arts at the post-secondary level. ... A mermaid sits atop Dickinson Colleges Old West. ... Reed College is a private, independent liberal arts college located in Portland, Oregon. ... The University of Puget Sound (often called UPS or just Puget Sound) is a private liberal arts college located in the North End of Tacoma, Washington, in the United States. ... St. ... Hamilton College is a private, independent, highly selective liberal arts college located in Clinton, New York. ... Earlham College is a national, selective Quaker liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. ... Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college located in Conway, Arkansas. ... Colgate in fall. ... Washington and Jefferson College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college located in Washington, Pennsylvania. ... Centre College is an accredited, private, four-year liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, USA, a community of about 15,000 located in Boyle County, approximately 35 miles (56. ... Ursinus College is a small, coeducational, liberal arts college in Collegeville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. ... Connecticut College is a coeducational, highly selective private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. ... Kenyon College is a private, highly selective liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of the The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. ... Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts womens college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. ... Skidmores main entrance. ...

On 19 June, 2007, during the annual meeting of the Annapolis Group, members discussed the letter to college presidents. As a result, "a majority of the approximately 80 presidents at the meeting said that they did not intend to participate in the U.S. News reputational rankings in the future." ^[36] However, the decision to fill out the reputational survey or not will be left up to each individual college as: "the Annapolis Group is not a legislative body and any decision about participating in the US News rankings rests with the individual institutions." ^[37] is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Annapolis Group is a nonprofit alliance of the nation’s leading independent liberal arts colleges. ...

The statement also said that its members "have agreed to participate in the development of an alternative common format that presents information about their colleges for students and their families to use in the college search process." ^[38] This database will be web based and developed in conjunction with higher education organizations including the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Council of Independent Colleges. The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) is an umbrella organization of more than 1,000 United States independent higher education institutions. ... The Council of Independent Colleges (founded 1956) is a service organization for educational institutions in the United States. ...

The new database was described in TIME magazine as "a web-based alternative to the rankings that is being spearheaded by the 900-member National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. NAICU's easy-to-read template, which is expected to be rolled out by hundreds of schools in September, allows students and their families to pull up extensive information organized in an objective format that includes such data as what percentage of students graduate in four years compared to those who graduate in five or six years." ^[39] A pocket watch, a device used to tell time Look up time in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

List of responses

College and university presidents

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• Alma College - President Saundra Tracy noted in a 22 June 2007 article that she "supported the action and criticized the magazine‘s unscientific process to rate the popularity and reputation of a school based on what presidents, provosts and admission deans say in a survey." ^[40]
• DePauw University - President Robert G. Bottoms noted in a 20 June 2007 article: ""I, in fact, did not fill out the reputational survey for this past year. I came to the conclusion that I am not in a position to make judgments on other schools, many of which I have little or no familiarity with. The fact that one quarter of a college's ranking is based upon what is, in essence, its popularity, is very disturbing and we choose not to be a part of the process." ^[41]
• Gettysburg College - A 25 June 2007 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education noted of President Katherine Haley Will, (who is also currently the chair of the Annapolis Group) that,"as announcements go, the Annapolis Group's written statement describing its plans was not dramatic [...] But it did signal a "convergence" of strong opinions among presidents." ^[42] CNN further quoted Will as stating that, "the majority of members indicated their intent to stop participating in the reputation survey, which produces what she says is 'not educationally valid research.' "^[43]
• Luther College (Iowa) - President Richard Torgerson noted of the "reputation survey" in a 1 July 2007 article that, "I think it conveys or implies a level of precision and authority that isn't warranted by the way this information is collected." ^[44]
• McDaniel College: According to a 03 July 2007 article, President Joan Develin Coley argued that, "the rankings just do not reflect what students need in order to make an informed decision about where to go to college." The article further noted that according to Coley, it is "hard for college presidents to know for sure how to rank their peers."^[45]
• Millsaps College - President Frances Lucas noted in a 20 June 2007 article that "she previously had paid little attention to the rankings debate because her own institution was rated highly in U.S. News. But after learning more about the magazine's methodology and discussing the issue with colleagues at this week's meeting, she concluded that the rankings were based too heavily on measurements determined by institutional wealth." ^[46]
• Muhlenberg College - President Peyton Helm stated in a 29 June 2007 article that "most of the other factors weighted by U.S. News in their rankings (in a secret formula they will not reveal, that is changed every year, and that independent researchers have been unable to replicate) are based, ultimately, on institutional wealth [...] A trustee once asked me what it would take for Muhlenberg to be ranked in the top five by U.S. News. My answer was simple: A check for $800 million placed directly in the endowment would do it -- even if we never changed another thing we were doing." Helms also noted that, ""What you won't read in U.S. News is that most of the data they use is public information, readily available on the Web sites of most colleges and universities, as well as on the U.S. Department of Education Web site. There is no single formula for weighting these factors -- they will have different significance for different students and families. So, next year I and many other leaders of our nation's best colleges and universities will be working on a new and better Web-based tool for families engaged in the college search." ^[47]

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• Furman University - President David Shi stated in 1 July 2007 article that members of the Annapolis Group are "disgusted by the mania over rankings [...] We're saying we've had enough, and we're going to take collective action." ^[48]
• St. John's College (Annapolis) - President Chris Nelson (and outgoing president of The Annapolis Group) noted for Inside Higher Ed "that presidents are energized about the issue because they realize 'the lack of any evidence that the information collected has anything' to do with educational quality."^[49]

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• Philander Smith College - President Walter Kimbrough argued in a 28 June 2007 article that U.S. News, "focuses on institutional resources, student selectivity and graduation rates to select the top institutions. But since many HBCUs struggle with these issues, he says the rankings in effect discourage students from going to those schools [...] If there are people looking at the rankings as a measurement of the quality of an institution, they think [HBCUs] do not have any type of qualities [...] [The rankings] do not tell you who the best schools are, just the most privileged." ^[50]

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• Barnard College (current) - President Judith P. Shapiro stated in a 20 June 2007 article: "frankly, it had bubbled up to the point of, why should we do this work for them? [...] It is a way of saying, this is not our project."^[51]
• Sarah Lawrence College (former) - President Michele Tolela Myers stated in a 20 June 2007 article for the New York Times: "they will do what they will do, [...] we will do what we will do. And we want to do it in a principled way."^[52] Myers also indicated in a press release for Sarah Lawrence that the college will be involved in developing the new database of colleges discussed in the Annapolis Group statement as they "believe in accountability and openness, and that the public has a right to solid and reliable information about the important decisions involved in choosing a college." The press release also indicated that Sarah Lawrence "plans not to participate in the peer reputational survey or data collection for U.S. News and World Report’s rankings" as, according to Myers, "by submitting data and the peer reputation survey we have tacitly been endorsing these rankings [...] all the information we have provided to U.S. News in the past will be available to the public through other channels.” ^[53]
• Scripps College (current) - Former President Nancy Y. Bekavac (who retired on June 30, 2007) stated in a 21 June 2007 press release for Scripps, "For years we have known of flaws in the methodology; many of us have spoken with editors at U.S. News in an attempt to improve its approach [...] but nothing can really improve a system that seeks to reduce 3,300 educational programs in American higher education to one set of numbers, and then rank them. College presidents, academic deans and deans of admission do not know enough about other institutions to make meaningful comparisons. This gives a false sense of reliability to what is a ranking system without any real validity."^[54]
• Trinity Washington University (current) - President Patricia McGuire noted that: "the survey asks me to "rate the academic quality of undergraduate programs," assigning each school a single score using a 1-to-5 scale from "marginal" to "distinguished." That I have little real information about these 181 institutions does not seem to matter to the U.S. News editors [...] Some of the actual best colleges in this nation do not fare well in the U.S. News survey because they do not have the wealth, big-time sports notoriety or public relations clout to influence the peer voting system." ^[55]

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Faculty, scholars, & administrators

• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching - Senior scholar Alexander C. McCormick responded in a 10 May 2007 article to the way in which the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is used in the creation of U.S. News rankings. The problem, he argues, with this use is that there is "no basis for inferring national versus regional focus, because it’s not a factor in the classification criteria. So it should come as no surprise that the national and regional lists contain a great many inconsistencies and bizarre placements [...] By continuing to rely on the Carnegie Classification, they avoid the tough job of defining their terms." ^[56]
• Columbia University - According to a 20 June 2007 article in the Columbia Daily Spectator: "a Columbia administrator said that the University will continue to participate in the rankings. 'Although Columbia continues to co-operate with U.S. News, we very much share the legitimate concerns of our colleagues that there is often too much emphasis on rankings in a process that should really be about which kind of higher education experience among an extraordinary array of good options is the best fit for any given student,' Robert Hornsby, a spokesman for the University, said in a written statement. ^[57]
• Princeton University - A 29 March 2007 article in The Daily Princetonian noted that it is a school "— which the magazine ranked No. 1 for the seventh straight year — [and] has continued to supply the magazine with relevant statistics. University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee '69 said that while the rankings inform students and their parents of relevant comparative data for different schools, they shouldn't be used to exclusively inform an applicant's choice of college." ^[58]
• University of North Carolina School of Law - Assistant to the Dean, Sarah E. Wald, noted in a 30 June 2007 article for the Boston Globe that, "the rankings purport to give an overall order to colleges and graduate schools to help students make the best decisions about where to attend school. But universities all know how misleading and even destructive these rankings can be. It's common knowledge how the statistics can be "gamed." Colleges can solicit applications from students with little chance of acceptance to boost how selective they appear. Schools can adjust when they allow faculty to take leave in order to raise the faculty/student ratio. And admitting more "risky" students on transfer rather than in the initial class results in a higher freshman SAT average."^[59]
• USC Annenberg School for Communication - Professor Marty Kaplan stated after the 19 June, 2007 decision by the Annapolis Group in the Huffington Post that, "the problem with U.S. News' college rankings isn't that institutions of higher education shouldn't be held accountable for the quality of services they provide [...] The problem is that the fierce competition among colleges to raise their rankings torques the priorities of colleges toward the criteria that U.S. News uses." ^[60]

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U.S. News

On 22 June 2007, U.S. News and World Report editor Robert Morse issued a response in which he argued, "in terms of the peer assessment survey, we at U.S. News firmly believe the survey has significant value because it allows us to measure the "intangibles" of a college that we can't measure through statistical data. Plus, the reputation of a school can help get that all-important first job and plays a key part in which grad school someone will be able to get into. The peer survey is by nature subjective, but the technique of asking industry leaders to rate their competitors is a commonly accepted practice. The results from the peer survey also can act to level the playing field between private and public colleges." ^[61] is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ...

In reference to the alternative database discussed by the Annapolis Group, Morse also argued, "It's important to point out that the Annapolis Group's stated goal of presenting college data in a common format has been tried before [...] U.S. News has been supplying this exact college information for many years already. And it appears that NAICU will be doing it with significantly less comparability and functionality. U.S. News first collects all these data (using an agreed-upon set of definitions from the Common Data Set). Then we post the data on our website in easily accessible, comparable tables. In other words, the Annapolis Group and the others in the NAICU initiative actually are following the lead of U.S. News." ^[62] The Annapolis Group is a nonprofit alliance of the nation’s leading independent liberal arts colleges. ...

A debate on this issue was published as a podcast in the 25 June 2007 issue of Inside Higher Ed. The debate was between Lloyd Thacker, director of the Education Conservancy, who is a well known critic of the U.S. News rankings, and U.S. News editor Brian Kelly. The debate was moderated by Inside Higher Ed reporter, Scott Jaschik. ^[63] An orange square with waves indicates that an RSS feed is present on a web page. ... is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Inside Higher Ed is a free daily online publication that covers a variety of college and university issues. ...

References and further reading

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Notes

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External links

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