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More Quit ‘U.S. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools

Inside Higher Ed

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.”

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The U.S. News exodus never happened. How did the top ranking service outlast naysayers?

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Yale Law School’s decision to stop participating with the seminal college ranking service in November prompted a wave of other prestigious graduate programs to follow through; at least a dozen medical schools and 40+ law schools quit participating. Coming into 2023, U.S.

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Colorado College to Drop Out of ‘U.S. News’ Rankings

Inside Higher Ed

Law schools and medical schools, including many highly ranked institutions, have dropped out of U.S. The Rhode Island School of Design is the only other undergraduate college to have recently left the U.S. ” Ad keywords: administrators admissions Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading

Today's Learner

It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses. Pros of standards-based grading SBG has allowed teachers and administrators alike to analyze the root causes of why students haven’t mastered specific material.

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The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading

Today's Learner

It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses. Pros of standards-based grading SBG has allowed teachers and administrators alike to analyze the root causes of why students haven’t mastered specific material.

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Belmont plans to hire Jewish faculty for the first time

Inside Higher Ed

Campus administrators and some members of the local Jewish community celebrated the shift as a step toward greater interreligious inclusion, aligned with recent Jewish-Christian interfaith efforts at Belmont. The Board of Trustees and Faculty Senate also plan to consider a similar decision at the undergraduate level later this year.

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

Staffing Does Stanford have more administrators than undergrads? ” Vedder recently retired from Miami University, which had approximately the same number of students as Stanford – but Stanford as 10 times as many employees, even excluding its medical school. Former U.S.