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U.S. News Holds Annual Meeting With Deans of College Admissions
Tweet Share on Facebook December 22, 2011 Comment (3)U.S. News editors and staffers met in early December with a cross section of deans of admissions and enrollment management from U.S. colleges to get their input on various education issues and to get feedback on the Best Colleges rankings and methodology. U.S. News has held an annual meeting with an independent advisory board of admissions deans since 1992. As in the past, we found this meeting to be highly beneficial.
Here is a sampling of the topics from this year's meeting:
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Latest Acceptance Rate Data Not Inflated, U.S. Naval Academy Says
Tweet Share on Facebook December 15, 2011 Comment (1)A recent article in the Navy Times, titled "Professor says academy overstates applicants," claimed that the U.S. Naval Academy "is artificially inflating its number of applicants to boost its status among other colleges, according to an academy professor who based his accusations on the school's own documents."
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U.S. News Presents at Institutional Research Annual Meeting
Tweet Share on Facebook December 8, 2011 Comment (2)I just returned from Boston and the North East Association for Institutional Research's 2011 annual conference, "Leading the Charge for Institutional Research." This annual meeting of college researchers and analysts from colleges and universities in the Northeast was among the largest in its history.
I was joined at the conference by two U.S. News colleagues—Evan Jones, strategic analytics; and Chris Petrie, education analyst—who are in charge of the some of the new data products U.S. News has released in 2011.
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Iona College Admits to Inflating Rankings Data for 9 Years
Tweet Share on Facebook December 1, 2011 Comment (1)Given the degree and magnitude of Iona College's recent revelations of its data misreporting, U.S. News has evaluated how Iona's ranking in the current Best Colleges rankings would have changed. In the current, 2012 edition, Iona College is ranked 30th overall in the Regional Universities—North category. U.S. News estimates that Iona College's ranking would have fallen by approximately 20 places in that category, had we used accurate data instead of the data Iona first reported to us in April 2011.
Iona College posted a report on its website on Nov. 8, 2011, that said "we recently discovered inaccuracies in student performance data reported to external agencies. In response, we subsequently initiated a thorough investigation by outside legal counsel with the assistance of a third-party independent auditing firm."
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