At least 27 colleges have challenged the US News college rankings reports by refusing to fill out their surveys. I know that Reed had done this awhile ago, and maybe a few others had, but now it seems like a movement is underway. According to an InsideHigherEd article, two weeks ago, 12 college presidents called for their colleagues to stop filling out the institutional reputation part of the survey. Then a few days ago, 15 more colleges, particularly some historically black colleges, decided to do the same, arguing that the rankings have been inherently unfair to them. Read the rest of this entry »