College rankings are an interesting business, if for no other reason than the public loves them and the higher education intelligentsia hates them. Take the ongoing scandal at Clemson University. When it came out recently that Clemson has made increasing its US News & World Report ranking from 38 to the top 20 its sole [...]
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Woe, the Banana Slugs
Harvard edged ahead of Princeton this year in the annual least-meaningful-yet-most-publicized measure of higher education quality, the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. This is like using advanced satellite telemetry to figure out which Himalayan peak is the world’s highest–marginally interesting in a trivial way, but beside the point, which is that they’re both [...]
Higher Ed Revolution From the Lower Ranks?
A NYTimes front-page story earlier this week focused on the strenuous efforts of the University of Florida’s flagship Gainesville campus to ascend in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. A few days earlier, the Charleston Daily Mail reported on how a growing number of West Virginia colleges and universities are trying to figure [...]
College Rankings Throw-Down
On Wednesday morning from 9:30 to 11:30, you’ll be coming to Education Sector’s panel discussion on college rankings and higher education accountability, to be held at the Capital Hilton, just two blocks north of the White House. Register here.
What’s that you say? Staff meeting that morning? Big project due? No, no, you’re not fooling anyone. [...]
Higher Education "Performance"
InsiderHigherEd.com has a story today about a growing trend in college president compensation, whereby pay is linked to “performance.” Not a bad idea per se — I’m certainly among those who think that K-12 teacher pay should be linked to perforamnce. But then the article describes the performance measures being used:
These payments aren’t just bonuses [...]
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03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman's False Fronts paper is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on Federal Family Education Loan defaults on The Huffington Post.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.