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U.S. News Debates Law Schools over Adding Diversity to Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook November 23, 2011 Comment (1)I represented U.S. News at an early November 2011 meeting at St. John's School of Law in New York that was titled Opening Doors: Making Diversity Matter in Law School Admissions.
The symposium discussed that:
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La Salle University Official Discusses Impact of College Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook November 17, 2011 Comment (3)John F. Dolan, vice president for enrollment services at La Salle University in Pennsylvania has written to U.S. News about the process of supplying data for our Best Colleges rankings, how U.S. News has worked with La Salle to correct missing information for prospective students and our readers, and how to set up data reporting systems to prevent such problems from occurring.
In Dolan's words, this is what happened at La Salle after the 2012 edition of the Best Colleges rankings were published on Sept. 15, 2011:
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U.S. News Meets With AACRAO to Discuss Future of College Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook November 10, 2011 Comment (6)I represented U.S. News and participated in a serious discussion November 1 on ways how to improve the college rankings. Hosted by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), the half-day session, held in San Diego, was titled "College and University Rankings Discussion: Can We Improve How We Assess the Undergraduate Experience?" and was part of AACRAO's 2011 Strategic Enrollment Management Conference.
The event follows the recent publication of numerous articles on college rankings in AACRAO's College & University Journal. AACRAO's ranking discussion at the conference focused on one of the journal articles, "Rating (Not Ranking) the Undergraduate Experience: Principles from a National Discussion," by Jason Lane, a professor at University of Albany—SUNY and one of the panelists at the conference.
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U.S. News Holds Historic Meeting With Medical School Deans
Tweet Share on Facebook November 3, 2011 Comment (1)U.S. News participated in an important half-day meeting about of our Best Medical School rankings with deans from many of our top ranked medical schools. The October 27 event, "The Impact and the Future of Medical School Rankings," was sponsored by U.S.News & World Report and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and was held at Mount Sinai in New York.
The main purpose of the meeting was for those at U.S. News involved in producing our medical school rankings to discuss all aspects of those rankings with academics at leading medical schools. The medical school deans offered very sophisticated feedback on what aspects of the rankings were working and what areas needed to be improved.
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