Monday, July 23, 2007

Williams, Amherst, Rated Tops by U.S. News, Won't Join Rankings Protest

(Bloomberg) -- Sixty small American colleges have
mounted the biggest protest yet against U.S. News & World Report
magazine's annual rankings of higher education. The survey's 25
premier schools aren't joining the rebellion.

The presidents of Holy Cross, Lafayette, Trinity and 57
other liberal arts schools have pledged in the past 10 weeks to
withhold cooperation from Washington-based U.S. News on the most
controversial element of its 24-year-old survey, a questionnaire
asking colleges to assess competing schools.


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