<p>Obama's Ratings for Higher Ed</p>
<p>President</a> Obama proposes to link student aid to new ratings of colleges | Inside Higher Ed</p>
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<p>UTEP has more students on Pell Grants than Rice/UT/TAMU…</p>
<p>Yea! New rankings!<br>
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<p>They could take as long to put together as the NRC rankings did…and just give basically the same results of 100% peer assessment. Or look to what xiggi calls the “Mother Teresa” rankings.</p>
<p>Well, this could cause schools to cherry pick Pell students, and decline more kids who “just miss Pell status” but still need a lot of aid…just to get their numbers to be more President-friendly.</p>
<p>Doubt Obama will follow through on this (or that he could given the Congress). Suspect he is using the “bully pulpit” to try and get colleges to become more cost conscious and stem the annual tuition increases. </p>
<p>From this commentary in the Chronicle of Higher Education (many interesting criticisms of Obama’s very general outlines of a proposal, but short on ideas about cost control), I do not think the message is getting through. For many administrators, including this one, concepts of “affordability” do not center around tuition, but instead on access to federal and state funds. </p>
<p>[Obama’s</a> Aid Proposals Could Use a Reality Check - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“Obama’s Aid Proposals Could Use a Reality Check”>Obama’s Aid Proposals Could Use a Reality Check)</p>