<p>But I dont want to morph into a political diatribe so I will bite my lip. People talk about term limits in Congress? I would have term limits in college faculties! Fact. Make those ivory tower do nothings get outside the classroom and do something besides community organizing. Real jobs. With accountability. Make it a requirement like five years in and five years out. ;-)</p>
<p>As for USNWR the only news is that the cat is out of the bag across America, and there is no news because this rankings game is really over and people have figured out its a superfluous and superficial and subjective and ridiculous. There are fewer threads on CC about rankings now. years ago it was neurotic and panic stricken people obsessed with rankings and chest beating and it was worse than a bumper sticker. Awful. </p>
<p>Nor should the measure of a college success be the salaries of graduates…I’ve seen ridiculous threads on CC about that as well. Just awful stuff.</p>
<p>However, I am still hopeful that a conservative professor will bring a lawsuit claiming discrimination because the faculty and power brokers (Deans and Department Heads) are all liberals and they routinely discriminate and deny tenure to conservatives. </p>
<p>We need a DOJ investigation and perhaps denying federal funds to institutions which dont have enough conservatives on faculty…we need affirmative action for conservative faculty!</p>
<p>The question had nothing to do with anyone’s voting. It had to do with whether “Bush administration” meant the 1989-1993 time period, or the 2001-2009 time period.</p>
<p>Actually, that might work out better as we will KNOW that the opinion of Joe about Stern in invalid. The current system is based on PRETENDING that “someone” at Wharton or Stern has a valid opinion about more than 200 schools and can rank their “distinguished” programs offered to undergraduates! </p>
<p>St John’s College started submitting info to US News this year, which may have accounted for the jump in its ranking. I think it’s a much more special place than its ranking indicates, to be clear–but I doubt it’s changed radically over the last year, or even the last decade. The only difference is that it’s now complying.</p>
<p>Completely agree. Some schools have resorted to developing special marketing materials just to raise awareness among “peers.” It’s stupid. And it stretches the limits of credulity to think that college administrators and faculty have nothing better to do than know what’s going on with hundreds of other institutions.</p>
<p>Maybe Peer reviews would work for “peer groups”, say schools that score within 20 points of each other (so, say, Harvard would only be rated by schools in the top 20, while Berkeley would be rated by everyone between Princeton and UT-Austin).</p>
<p>That way you would only have schools that compete against each other rating each other, making it a true “Peer” review.</p>
<p>Georgia tech dropped its admit rate to 40% for the stats shown this year. Next year they’ll show the current admit rate at 33%. Will that get it in the top 30? </p>