The Alleged “Rich Kid Problem”
…Colleges Have a Rich-Kid Problem” in which he contended that our most prestigious colleges and universities should be doing much more to attract academically well-prepared students who come from relatively…
…Colleges Have a Rich-Kid Problem” in which he contended that our most prestigious colleges and universities should be doing much more to attract academically well-prepared students who come from relatively…
…inflating admission statistics to improve their ranking in magazines. A year or so, we were shocked to hear that already highly regarded Claremont McKenna College had inflated average SAT scores…
…for private institutions, with endowments surging an average of 19.2 percent in 2011 and 11.9 percent in 2010, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers. Meanwhile…
…RMP data in the college rankings we develop for Forbes, we do not–and never have–represented RMP data as a measure of teaching quality; indeed, we have always characterized RMP data…
…correct prose. Even at the college level, and at good schools, most students cannot write even a page of text without committing some error of grammar, usage, or spelling. This…
Since the early years of the 20th century, America has boasted the world’s finest universities, but that rosy picture is fading. The lower quality of American college graduates, the shift…
…trustees who prize vacuous but still prestigious measures of schooling excellence like the US News rankings, the University has goaded itself into playing the rankings game. US News‘s calculations consider…
…rankings provide useful information, the actual differences between College #7 and College #19 are trivial. 7. Year-to-year changes are meaningless. It would be nice if colleges…
Although high school students applying to colleges invariably rely on college ranking guides as a primary source of information, these guides are often misleading and, in most cases, counterproductive. Frederick…
…who took the SAT under the burden of stereotype threat could be more qualified for college and likely to perform better in college than a White student”–is quite familiar. Why…
…era. They can see a role for colleges pursuing ambitious cultural goals that a for-profit college would not. They see a role for religious colleges that public universities cannot adopt….
…mean, median, and range of SAT scores to boost the college’s position on the influential list of college rankings. The scheme worked. Claremont McKenna cracked U.S. News & World Report’s…
It’s happening, almost overnight: what could be the collapse of the near-monopoly that traditional brick-and-mortar colleges and universities currently enjoy as respected credentialing institutions whose degrees and grades mean something…
…affluent and less affluent with respect to preparation for college, in short, has almost certainly widened. At the college level, as Murray demonstrates, the gap between the academic record of…
…U.S. News & World Report rankings. While the ABA operates as law schools’ official accreditor, U.S. News, with its rankings of the schools and its division of them into four…
…and quite possibly not capable of benefiting from a college level education. Accepting students to college when they are not ready for college level course work is irresponsible and inexcusable….
…the proliferation of law-school rankings has only discouraged innovation and rewarded non-economic behaviors at the individual school level. Like Segal, many have diagnosed a problem, but fewer have offered a…
…editor of Rewarding Strivers: Helping Low-Income Students Succeed in College (2010), and Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admission (2010). Legacy Admissions, Round Two …
…which had ended a year before. According to Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, however, that consistency is about to collapse. Their article in Harvard Magazine, “Colleges in Crisis”, announces the death knell…
…is part of the reason for capitalism’s success. But what about the bottom line for higher education? Probably the closest thing is reputation, as measured by college rankings. If college…
…colleges.” Vedder suggested that the IRS further break down its findings by academic unit of the colleges in question: the business school, the college of engineering, and so forth. …
…College Board, “Tuition Discounting: Institutional Aid Patterns at Public and Private Colleges and Universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09.” In spite of the recession, the College Board study says, the rate that…
…and there were reports that Stephen Blackwood, the founder of Ralston College back in late 2011, would start his sixth “Great Books” college, this one in Florida. That same day,…
…students of lower-tier socioeconomic status, many of whom are ill-prepared for college-level work, and, according to a 2009 report from the National Center on Education Statistics, drop out of college…
…accreditation, requiring the appointment of a full-time dean in 1949, a minimum student-faculty ratio and faculty size in 1952, and gradually restricting admission to students with college degrees.” Some of…
Trying to rank hundreds, if not thousands of colleges is obviously foolish, but this foolishness has consequences beyond supplying iffy advice to clueless shoppers. To the extent that potential enrollees…
…relations. Second, colleges manipulate the numbers to their own advantage. And finally, the rankings are premised on asking the wrong question. The issue is not what’s the “best” college in…
The U.S. News & World Report rankings of America’s “best” colleges and universities amount to nothing more than an annual ritual, a predictable coronation of entrenched wealth and power. Even…
…prerogatives than those of the clients and public it serves. College guides can be useful. When my children were looking into college in the 1990s, one book covering the “Best…
…special consideration to children of graduates. Indeed, many early colleges, including the precursors to Trinity College and Duke University, were originally financed by donors who intended the colleges to educate…