Wednesday, June 03, 2009

"The fine line between illegal, unethical and really interesting"


“We have been criticized for not fulfilling the mission of a public land-grant institution. [... But] we have gotten really good press. We have walked the fine line between illegal, unethical, and really interesting.”

That quote is from Catherine Watt, the former institutional researcher and now a professor at Clemson University; she's talking about the extraordinary efforts made by Clemson to reach the top 20 in US News rankings.

Read this article to get a sense of the pernicious effects of half-baked rankings such as that by US News.

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