The president of Alma College is asking officials at 480 liberal-arts institutions to boycott requests by U.S. News & World Report for their views of peer institutions.
Each spring, the magazine asks college presidents and other high-ranking officials to rank their peers. That"academic-reputation vote,” as Alma calls it, accounts for 25 per cent of each college’s final position in the U.S. News rankings.
Last fall, Alma College surveyed 158 presidents, provosts, and admissions officers about the U.S. News rankings. According to the college, 84 per cent of the respondents admitted that they were unfamiliar with some of the institutions they had been asked to rank. Almost 44 per cent indicated that they “tended to leave responses for unfamiliar schools blank.”
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