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After Law-School Revolt, Harvard Medical School Will Stop Cooperating With ‘U.S. News’ Rankings

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Ryan, The Boston Globe, Getty Images Harvard Medical School. Like the law-school leaders before him, the Harvard dean George Q. By Francie Diep. Daley said rankings create perverse incentives.

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U.S. News rankings out, digital marketing in?

University Business

When Yale Law School opted out in November, a flood of other law schools, such as U.C. Soon enough, medical schools from Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania quit it as well. Harvard’s schools of law and medicine both took the high road. Berkeley and Georgetown, followed suit.

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

University Business

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. he recalled using U.S.

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The End of Affirmative Action

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Leadership in Higher Education This morning, the U.S. Because Harvard is a private institution and UNC public, that result would ban use of race in admission decisions across the entire spectrum of higher education. Many of my friends and colleagues in higher education have questions about these cases.

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

It will change higher education forever. Eroding public confidence in higher education. As I read the higher ed press, I try to find the trendline. Is it that higher education is reeling, that past failures are coming home to roost, and the long-anticipated day of reckoning has at last arrived?

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Rankings and the line of best fit – the ultimate guide or a blunt instrument?

The PIE News

. “Was [TUM] definitely better from 1 November 2020 until 31 October 2021 such that its graduates in those 365 days have higher potential that those in the years either side?” As the marketisation of higher education continues, marketing departments often turn to rankings to sell courses and programs.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This year, it launched a new center and program to address the acute need for culturally diverse and responsive health professionals: the Health Professions Center and its signature program, the Martin Delany-Pan African Studies Pathway to Medical School Program. . Weaving DEI into Classroom Discussions — Southwestern Law School.