by Lisa Ransdell, Ph.D., IECA Associate Member (Colorado) In the Feb 14/21, 2011 edition of The New Yorker there is a great piece by Malcolm Gladwell on college rankings: “The Order of Things: What College Rankings Really Tell Us.” Gladwell uses the analogy of automobile rankings to illustrate the folly of the one-size-fits-most approach used … Read more »
by Dodge Johnson, President, Independent Educational Consultants Association Economist Richard Vedder recently published a piece titled “In Defense of College Rankings,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 08/06/1). Here he defends the soon-to-be-released U.S. News rankings, anticipating that “many in the Education Establishment will [trash] them… They will be labeled as non-scientific, elitist, poorly constructed, … Read more »
by Mark H. Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association It is this week that U.S. News and World Report releases its best-selling issue of the year: its annual ranking of colleges and universities. Based on criteria that no one thinks is ideal (and few fully comprehend), the result is a week where colleges condemn … Read more »
