In a week of news that included North Korea’s hack of Sony over a $44 million comedy, normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba, and the latest twists in the Cosby scandal, it would be understandable if you missed an item.
And if you were desperately playing catch-up, listening to all the episodes of that podcast, “Serial,” you surely wouldn’t have noticed this one item in particular. (Now if the North Koreans really wanted to upset the American intelligentsia, that country would have ignored Seth Rogan and hacked the servers of “Serial.”)
But I digress.
More important to you in higher ed (even more so than the University of Virginia trying to deflect its sexual assault problem by blaming the media) is the simple matter of where your school might place in a new federal ranking system of our nation’s colleges.
Why should U.S. News have all the fun ranking schools, when the feds can do it and then use it as a basis to make better use of its limited financial aid dollars?
Does a poor performing school really need more federally-subsidized students? Or are there better schools where we can place and invest in students?
That’s probably why the “draft framework” was unveiled just on Friday. Just in time to get lost conveniently in the holidays.
