Thomas Donlan of Barron’s structures his latest editorial commentary in the form of a less-than-uplifting commencement speech. Welcome to the world, young college graduates. This is what you always jokingly…
My colleague, George Leef, doesn’t usually like college rankings. He has called Forbes’ ranking “unnecessary” and U.S. News’ “deeply flawed.” So, when I read George’s critique of Brookings’ new college…
A new report from the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings outlines a novel way to evaluate colleges: by measuring value added. In “Beyond College Rankings,” two Brookings scholars attempt to…
Lists are like horoscopes. They entertain for some unknown reason. That said, the Asheville Daily Planet notes UNC-Asheville scored fifth from worst on a list of “least valuable” colleges published…
George Leef’s latest column for Forbes challenges the value of college rankings. Until U.S. News & World Report came out with its first rankings of colleges and universities in 1983,…
The latest Newsweek jumps into the college ranking game, offering a series of top-five lists for party schools, schools with the best return on investment, even the best schools for…
While Congress is focusing attention on credit card companies’ role in college students’ increasing debt loads, Jenna Ashley Robinson of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy assigns more importance…
Everybody’s familiar with US News and World Report’s annual college rankings. Lots of critics say the list leaves something to be desired. In the Pope Center’s latest, Jane Shaw writes…
As you scarf down some Bojangle’s this weekend, remember to save some time for Carolina Journal Radio. Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich offers his thoughts about his upcoming “American…
Criticism of the U. S. News and World Report college rankings is beginning to get attention, as in this May 20 article from the Washington Post. The rankings tend to…
Writing in the Winston-Salem Journal, Paul O’Connor agrees with me that the US News college rankings are not useful and lead schools to do things just for the same of…
Newsweek this week has an article in which the authors declare that the Ivy League or high-caliber schools should be extended to include a list of what they considered to…