Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. News & World Report rankings of those institutions. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2023

Following harsh criticism from the nation’s top medical schools and the Department of Education, U.S. News and World Report is set to release its law and medical school: research rankings next week with an updated methodology and a reliance on public information from schools that now refuse to participate.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

The graduate degree program will start as a five-year pilot, with law school tuition covered for three years and medical school tuition for four years. Institutions must challenge themselves to move away from encouraging acts that are performative, into commitments of transformative change.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

News ’ flawed methodology still equates academic quality with institutional wealth and continues to rely heavily on the infamous questionnaire asking institutions to rank each other’s reputation, a non-objective process subject to gaming. Here are a few examples. News this winter and fall. Eric Gertler, U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Belmont University, a private Christian institution in Nashville, Tenn., Some scholars, in and outside the institution, believe the change moves the university too far from its Christian roots, while others say the policy isn’t inclusive enough, embracing one faith community to the exclusion of others.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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 higher education institutions have open or close to open admissions, taking virtually all applicants. For these schools, the decision will have no or little impact.

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