ON THE CONTRARY

Boycotting Rankings Is Not the Answer

By ANTHONY G. COLLINS

I received a call not long ago from another college president asking if Clarkson University was willing to join the bandwagon to boycott U.S. News and World Report's annual rankings of "America's best colleges." He was contemplating an invitation to be part of a group of colleges that had decided not to participate....

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