Francie Diep
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Washington, DC, United States
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Colleges Protesting ‘U.S. News’ Rankings Say They’re Doing It for Low-Income Students. Do They Mean It?
Many of the institutions that have ditched the rankings also have some of the wealthiest undergraduate student bodies. → Read More
How Criticism Actually Strengthens Rankings
Prominent law and medical schools have announced they will no longer cooperate with “U.S. News.” Two researchers discuss what that might mean for the rankings. → Read More
DeSantis’s Higher-Ed Push Just Got Bigger. Fresh Resistance Is Starting to Bubble Up.
Florida’s governor announced a slate of proposed “reforms” that would encroach on campuses’ autonomy. → Read More
DeSantis Asked Florida Universities to Detail Their Diversity Spending. Here’s How They Answered.
The amounts the state’s public universities reported spending on diversity and critical race theory came out to 1 percent or less of their overall budgets. → Read More
After Law-School Revolt, Harvard Medical School Will Stop Cooperating With ‘U.S. News’ Rankings
Like the law-school leaders before him, the Harvard dean George Q. Daley said rankings create perverse incentives. → Read More
The Academic-Freedom Controversy That Won’t Die
In a joint interview, Hamline University officials defended their handling of an incident in which an adjunct’s contract was not renewed after she showed images of the Prophet Muhammad in class. → Read More
Is This the Beginning of the End of the ‘U.S. News’ Rankings’ Dominance?
High-ranking law schools have taken the abrupt step of disavowing the much-cited list. But don’t expect the magazine’s influence to wane anytime soon. → Read More
A Third Top-10 Law School — Berkeley’s — Pulls Out of ‘U.S. News’ Rankings
The dean said the magazine’s formula discourages schools from admitting low-income students and supporting students interested in public service. → Read More
Yale and Harvard’s Law Schools Are Ditching the ‘U.S. News’ Rankings. Will Others Follow?
Yale’s dean argued that the ranking’s formula discourages institutions from admitting low-income students and supporting careers in public service. → Read More
To Fight Misconduct, U. of Michigan Proposes an ‘Independent’ Ethics Team. Will It Work?
Experts weigh in on whether yet another office is the answer to the institution’s shortcomings. → Read More
At One University, Resistance to a New Covid Policy Comes From Inside the House
A requirement at Fordham University that employees stay up to date on their Covid vaccinations, including the latest bivalent booster, has prompted a vocal backlash from some instructors. → Read More
It’s Not Clear Whether Public-College Professors Have First Amendment Rights When They’re Teaching
“It remains more of an open question than those of us who are academics would like it to be,” one expert said. → Read More
Multilevel Marketing Is Controversial. This Academic Fellowship Is Trying to Change That.
The industry association for multilevel marketers enlists professors to use its statistics and take its money. Some say it goes too far. → Read More
Why Students Do — and Don’t — Get Covid Vaccines
A nationally representative survey finds that mandates have helped drive vaccinations — and that community-college students are being “left behind.” → Read More
Columbia U. Gets a Lower ‘U.S. News’ Ranking After Scrutiny of Its Data
Officials didn’t submit data to be judged this year, citing a continuing internal investigation. The missing numbers appear to have hurt the university’s rank. → Read More
Why Some Colleges Are Removing Their Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates
At a handful of institutions, new laws and continued resistance have pushed administrators to rescind their vaccine requirements. → Read More
Biden’s Student-Debt Forgiveness Is Reportedly Imminent. Here’s What You Need to Know.
The president appears poised to forgive $10,000 in loan debt for borrowers with income below a certain threshold. → Read More
After a Professor’s Scrutiny, ‘U.S. News’ Pulls Columbia University’s No. 2 Ranking
A math professor questioned the accuracy of the data his institution submitted to “U.S. News.” Since then, analysts for the magazine say, administrators haven’t answered questions to the analysts’ satisfaction. → Read More
Are Coke and Pepsi Campuses Bad for Public Health?
Almost all of the largest public universities in the United States have large marketing contracts with soda companies that include incentives to sell more to students, staff, and faculty, a new study finds. → Read More
Where the Rankers Meet the Ranked
Want to understand the relationship between a ubiquitous ranking and the colleges on it? An annual meeting tells the story. → Read More