Why am I not surprised that the college presidents mentioned in this USA Today article are against judging their schools' performance? Isn't that a basic tenet of modern education, that teachers and the educational process cannot be held up to evaluation of results?
A dozen college presidents have pledged to boycott a key component of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings because they say the popular rankings mislead prospective students and encourage gamesmanship.
The presidents — from a range of mostly smaller institutions including Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and Earlham College in Indiana — outlined their complaints in a letter dated Saturday to colleagues at other schools.
The letter says the dozen colleges have pledged to stop filling out the part of the survey in which colleges rate each other, which accounts for 25% of a college's ranking. The colleges say they also will no longer use the rankings in their own promotions and ask other schools to do the same.
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