{"id":7030,"date":"2009-08-24T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2009-08-24T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T18:51:02","slug":"reputation-without-rigor-us-news-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/08\/reputation-without-rigor-us-news-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Reputation without Rigor: US News Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/08\/19\/rankings\">Reputation Without Rigor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The form submitted by the provost at the University of Wisconsin at Madison deemed 260 of its 262 peer institutions to be of \u201cadequate\u201d quality. A survey from the University of Vermont\u2019s president listed \u201cdon\u2019t know\u201d for about half of the universities. The forms provided by Ohio State University\u2019s president and provost were virtually identical. And the University of Florida\u2019s president, like his highly publicized colleague at Clemson University, rated his own institution well above many of his competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Reputation Without Rigor The form submitted by the provost at the University of Wisconsin at Madison deemed 260 of its 262 peer institutions to be of \u201cadequate\u201d quality. A survey from the University of Vermont\u2019s president listed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/08\/reputation-without-rigor-us-news-rankings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[3814,4985],"class_list":["post-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-rankings","tag-us-news-world-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7031,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions\/7031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}