Rankings rancor: the beauty contest' lacks integrity.DON'T ASK PRESIDENT PATRICIA PATRICIA Practical Algorithm To Retrieve Information Coded In Alphanumeric PATRICIA Proving and Testability for Reliability Improvement of Complex Integrated Architectures PATRICIA PApilloma TRIal Cervical cancer In young Adults MCGUIRE OF TRINITY Washington University For other schools with similar names, see and Trinity College. Trinity (Washington) University, founded in 1897 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is a Roman Catholic university located in Washington, D.C. (D.C.) about U.S. News & World Reports' college rankings. Not unless you want to hear charges that it's just a "beauty contest" and an admission that surveys sent to her get "ripped up" when they arrive. "I am referring to the portion of the survey that asks [presidents] to rate [one to five] the institutions in your area," she told a recent panel on the subject of rankings. "It has no integrity." There was no need for panel moderator Paul Glastris Paul Glastris is an American journalist and political columnist. Glastris is the current editor in chief of The Washington Monthly and was President Bill Clinton's chief speechwriter from September 1998 to the end of his presidency in early 2001. , editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly, to urge frankness among the seven panelists brought together by Education Sector, a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. , in October to discuss the new research report, "College Rankings Reformed," which was broadcast on C-Span. As soon as McGuire, Leader of a small Liberal arts religious college in the nation's capital, interrupted the preliminary softball questions with her statement, "I don't mean to be out of order" before Launching into her objections to the popular rankings, it was clear this C-Span broadcast was going to have some drama. One target was Charles Miller, also a panelist, and chairman of the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education The formation of a Commission on the Future of Higher Education, also known as the Spellings Commission, was announced on September 19, 2005 by U.S. Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings. . Suffice to say that McGuire wasn't buying Miller and U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings's argument that there is not enough comparable data in higher education, something they say will be remedied with a national database. TWU TWU Texas Woman's University TWU Transport Workers Union TWU Trinity Western University TWU Two Worlds United TWU Texas Wesleyan University TWU Transport Workers Union of America TWU Telecommunications Workers Union has plenty of outcome data, said McGuire, who views providing it as an ethical obligation to the lower-income students she serves. Other schools, Like Alverno College (Wis.)--a small IHE IHE Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise IHE Institutions of Higher Education IHE International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (historical acronym only, replaced by: IHE Delft, the Foundation) often cited as a model in higher ed--do too. Problem is, no one is paying attention to them because all the focus is on Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, she complained. "Mr. Miller is a financial expert, not an expert in student Learning," she charged gingerly. "Many administrators have devoted their Lives to education. The bashing of college and university administrators is part of what is wrong with this discussion." Miller's retort: "I'm not bashing anyone, but the system is dysfunctional." Hear the discussion at www.education sector.org/events.--J.M.A. |
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