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2003 Indicator Web Links
SUBSTANCE OVER FORM
Stevens confident that
continued commitment to research, marketing and teaching
excellence will improve its U.S. News & World Report ranking
By Peter C. Benedict, Editor
RELATED
LINKS:
"Broken Ranks: U.S.
News' college rankings measure everything but what matters. And
most universities do not seem to mind"
By
Amy Graham and Nicholas Thompson
The Washington Monthly, September 2001
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0109.graham.thompson.html
"Playing With Numbers: How U.S. News
mismeasures higher education and what we can do about it"
By Nicholas Thompson
The Washington Monthly, September 2000
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0009.thompson.html
"A Review of Methodology for the U.S. News
& World Report's Rankings of Undergraduate Colleges and
Universities"
Report of the National Opinion
Research Center, 1997
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/norc.html
"Cooking the School Books (Yet Again): The
U.S. News college rankings get phonier and phonier"
By Nicholas Thompson
Slate.com, Sept. 15, 2000
http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=89623
Letter from Gerhard Casper, president of
Stanford University, to James Fallows, editor of U.S. News &
World Report
Sept. 23, 1996
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeches/961206gcfallow.html
"The Uses and Abuses of the U.S. News
Rankings"
By Daniel J. Levin
AGB Priorities, Fall 2002 (a publication of the Association
of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges)
http://www.agb.org/_content/priority/v20n1/pubfall02.cfm
"The challenges of striving to measure
academic excellence"
USNews.com, America's Best
Colleges - About the rankings
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/about/challenges.htm
USNews.com, America's Best Colleges -
Methodology
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/about/index_brief.php#method
"The Emerging Shape and Direction of
Technology-Management Education: Sharing, Community Building and
Leveraging for a Stronger Future with Industry"
A Special Workshop on
Technology Management Education in the Northeast
May 3, 2002, Stevens campus
http://alumni.stevens-tech.edu/tmconference/
"Rankings Matter Relatively Little in
College Choice"
StudentPoll, Vol. 5, No. 1,
Oct. 16, 2002
Art & Science Group, LLC
http://www.artsci.com/StudentPOLL/v5n1/findings_data.htm
GRIST FROM THE MILL
Stevens' Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Team seeks support
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